---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001753539-23-000072"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKSY"
cik: "0001753539"
company_name: "BlackSky Technology Inc."
filed_at: "2023-09-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T22:15:54.794588+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BlackSky stockholders elect three Class II directors and ratify Deloitte as auditor

## Summary
- Susan M. Gordon, Timothy Harvey, and William Porteous elected as Class II directors until 2026 annual meeting.
- Auditor ratification passed with 106,146,974 votes for, 109,645 against, 519,057 abstain.
- Approximately 60.4 million broker non-votes on director elections due to discretionary voting rules.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001753539-23-000072
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKSY
- cik: 0001753539
- company_name: BlackSky Technology Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-09-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1753539/000175353923000072/0001753539-23-000072-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1753539/000175353923000072/bksy-20230907.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001753539-23-000072.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  BlackSky Technology Inc. shareholders approved Election of Class II Directors at the 2023-09-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-09-07
  source text: 1. Election of Class II Directors. Each of the following nominees was elected to serve as a Class II director and to hold office until the Company's 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her respective successor has been duly elected and qualified, or until such director's earlier death, resignation or removal, based on the following results of voting: Nominee For Withheld Broker Non-Votes Susan M. Gordon 26,531,356 19,859,469 60,384,851 Timothy Harvey 30,153,409 16,237,416 60,384,851 William Porteous 25,578,305 20,812,520 60,384,851
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1753539/000175353923000072/0001753539-23-000072-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BlackSky Technology Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2023-09-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-09-07
  source text: 2. Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 was ratified based on the following results of voting: For Against Abstained Broker Non-Vote 106,146,974 109,645 519,057 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1753539/000175353923000072/0001753539-23-000072-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.