Warrior Met Coal Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update, Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders, Financial Statements and Exhibits
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Coal Mining
Energy
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 23, 2025
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Item 5.02 Departure of Director or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On April 23, 2025, based on the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Warrior Met Coal, Inc. (the “Company”), the Board unanimously approved the election of Kimberly Y. Chainey as a director of the Company, effective April 23, 2025. Ms. Chainey serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR), a global leader in the design and manufacturing of drug and consumer product dosing, dispensing and protection technologies. Ms. Chainey joined Aptar in July 2020. Prior to this, Ms. Chainey was Vice President and General Counsel at Panasonic Avionics Corporation, a global manufacturer of in-flight entertainment and communications solutions and subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation, from January 2019 to July 2020 and Associate General Counsel at Avis Budget Group (NASDAQ: CAR), a global provider of mobility solutions, from November 2014 to December 2018. Ms. Chainey also served on the board of directors of NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE:NPTN), a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-speed communications networks, from March 2021 to August 2022. Neophotonics was acquired by Lumentum Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: LITE) in August 2022. The Board believes that Ms. Chainey’s over 20 years of experience as a director and officer of global companies in a variety of regulated industries, including manufacturing, transportation, consumer products, pharmaceuticals and technology, will contribute greatly to the Board.
Ms. Chainey will hold office until the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until her successor is duly elected and qualified. Ms. Chainey was appointed to the Audit Committee, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and the Sustainability, Environmental, Health and Safety Committee of the Board. Ms. Chainey will receive compensation in accordance with the Company’s standard compensation arrangement for non-employee directors, which is described under the caption “Director Compensation” in the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 13, 2025, as adjusted by the Board from time to time. Additionally, the Company will enter into an indemnification agreement with Ms. Chainey in connection with her appointment to the Board, which will be in substantially the same form as that entered into with the other non-employee directors of the Company.
There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Chainey and any other person pursuant to which she was selected as a director. Ms. Chainey does not have a family relationship with any director or executive officer of the Company or any person nominated or chosen by the Company to become a director or executive officer. There are no transactions in which Ms. Chainey has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
The Company held its 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on April 23, 2025. Summarized below are descriptions of the matters voted on at the Annual Meeting and the final results of such voting:
Proposal 1 – Election of Directors. The stockholders elected each of the five director nominees to serve as directors until the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until a successor is duly elected and qualified. Each nominee was a current director of the Company who was re-elected. The voting for the directors at the Annual Meeting was as follows:
| Name | Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | ||||||||
| J. Brett Harvey | 41,779,463 | 3,589,938 | 15,151 | ||||||||
| Walter J. Scheller, III | 45,048,340 | 321,295 | 14,917 | ||||||||
| Lisa M. Schnorr | 43,157,816 | 2,091,453 | 135,283 | ||||||||
| Alan H. Schumacher | 44,090,587 | 1,278,614 | 15,351 | ||||||||
| Stephen D. Williams | 42,462,784 | 2,906,781 | 14,985 | ||||||||
Proposal 2 – Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation. The stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as disclosed in accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission compensation disclosure rules. The result of the vote taken at the Annual Meeting was as follows:
| Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | ||||||
| 41,476,657 | 3,845,118 | 64,215 | ||||||
Proposal 3 – Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The stockholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2025. The result of the vote taken at the Annual Meeting was as follows:
| Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | ||||||
| 48,121,294 | 335,242 | 28,996 | ||||||
Proposal 4 – Stockholder Proposal Relating to Assessment of the Company’s Respect for the Human Rights of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining. The stockholders voted not to adopt a resolution urging the Board to commission and oversee an independent, third-party assessment of the Company’s respect for the internationally recognized human rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining. The result of the vote taken at the Annual Meeting was as follows:
| Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | ||||||
| 1,251,291 | 44,046,473 | 88,222 | ||||||
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
| Exhibit No. | Exhibit Description | ||||
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). | ||||
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Warrior Met Coal, Inc. | |||||||||||
| Date: April 24, 2025 | By: | /s/ Dale W. Boyles | |||||||||
| Dale W. Boyles | |||||||||||
| Chief Financial Officer | |||||||||||