---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-23-015557"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKTI"
cik: "0000002186"
company_name: "BK Technologies Corp"
filed_at: "2023-12-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T13:08:23.672881+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BK Technologies shareholders elect all six director nominees, ratify auditor, approve say-on-pay

## Summary
- Elected directors Horowitz, Jackson, Lanktree, Payne, Sams, Suzuki with >1.7M votes for each; Payne had 171K withheld.
- Ratified MSL, P.A. as independent auditor for FY 2023 with 2.55M for, 3K against.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 1.54M for, 186K against.
- Advisory vote on frequency: one-year option received 1.10M votes; board sets annual say-on-pay until 2029 meeting.
- Total shares outstanding approximately 2.56M; broker non-votes of 815K on director elections and say-on-pay.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-23-015557
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKTI
- cik: 0000002186
- company_name: BK Technologies Corp
- filed_at: 2023-12-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2186/000165495423015557/0001654954-23-015557-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2186/000165495423015557/bkti_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  BK Technologies Corp shareholders approved Advisory Vote on the Frequency of Named Executive Officer Compensation at the 2023-12-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-12-14
  source text: approved, on an advisory, non-binding basis, a one-year frequency for advisory votes on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2186/000165495423015557/0001654954-23-015557-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BK Technologies Corp shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of MSL, P.A. as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2023 at the 2023-12-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-12-14
  source text: ratified the appointment of MSL, P.A. as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2186/000165495423015557/0001654954-23-015557-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BK Technologies Corp shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-12-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-12-14
  source text: At the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of BK Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) held on December 14, 2023, the Company’s stockholders: (i) elected Joshua S. Horowitz, R. Joseph Jackson, Charles T. Lanktree, E. Gray Payne, Lloyd R. Sams, and John M. Suzuki to serve as directors of the Company until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2186/000165495423015557/0001654954-23-015557-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BK Technologies Corp shareholders approved Advisory Vote on Named Executive Officer Compensation at the 2023-12-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-12-14
  source text: approved, on an advisory, non-binding basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2186/000165495423015557/0001654954-23-015557-index.htm

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