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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-21-018786"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CPRT"
cik: "0000900075"
company_name: "COPART INC"
filed_at: "2021-09-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T03:22:36.571662+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Copart appoints Carl Sparks to Board of Directors, expands board to 11 members

## Summary
- Carl Sparks elected to Copart's Board effective Sept 10, 2021, filling a vacancy created by increasing board size from 10 to 11.
- Sparks will serve on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee.
- He is Managing Partner of Interlock Partners, former CEO of Travelocity Global and Academic Partnerships.
- Receives standard non-employee director compensation: $70,000 annual retainer and initial option grant of 25,000 shares vesting monthly over 12 months.
- Board amended Bylaws to fix maximum number of directors at 11; Sparks appointed under amended Bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-21-018786
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CPRT
- cik: 0000900075
- company_name: COPART INC
- filed_at: 2021-09-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/900075/000162828021018786/0001628280-21-018786-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/900075/000162828021018786/cprt-20210910.htm

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