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Seven ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ Shareholders Win 2024 Early Bird Proxy Prizes

Nearly 11,000 Shareholders Eligible for All Prize Drawings

(Anchorage, Alaska) – Seven ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ Corporation Shareholders are winners of regular Early Bird proxy prizes in the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The prizes are randomly drawn by Sramek Hightower, a certified public accounting firm in Anchorage that serves as the Inspector of Elections.

Approximately 10,700 Shareholders who voted online by 5 p.m. on May 24 qualified for the regular Early Bird prizes and were entered in all remaining prize drawings. The winners are:

  • $10,000 Prize – Sean T. Ward (Aniak)
  • $2,500 Prize – Jo Ann Evans (Bethel)
  • $1,000 Prize –
    • Matthew A. Kristovich (Fairbanks)
    • Shawn P. Pattison (Anchorage)
    • Bryant L. Akaran (Kotlik)
    • James Evans (Bethel)
    • Lorraine J. Brown (Eek)

About 3 in 4 Elders who have voted did so online. Nearly 7 in 10 voters finished in less than 3 minutes.  

The deadline to qualify for Regular Proxy Prizes is 5 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on Monday, June 3. All valid paper and online proxies physically received by this deadline qualify. There are 10 prizes totaling $17,000.

“Over half of eligible ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ voters this year are under the age of 40, so offering digital options is important. We designed voting at to be easily done with a smartphone in the Y-K Region.†– Thom Aparuk Leonard, vice president of corporate affairs

Proxy prizes are only awarded if enough Shareholders vote and quorum is reached. This makes the Annual Meeting valid. Learn more at .

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ Corporation has over 37,300 Shareholders and is the parent company of more than 30 subsidiaries in the following industries: defense contracting, construction, real estate, environmental services, natural resource development, marine transportation, oilfield services, and heavy equipment sales, service and rentals. Since 1994, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ has provided more than $6.4 million in scholarships to its Shareholders and Descendants. Since inception, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ has declared more than $141.6 million in dividends and distributions, including $11.3 million in Elders’ Benefit Program distributions to Shareholders. ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ can be found on , and .