Nearly 8,700 Shareholders Voted by May 8 Prize Deadline
May 12, 2026
(Anchorage, Alaska) – Seven Calista Corporation Shareholders have won Online Early Bird proxy prizes in the 2026 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.
Nearly 8,700 Shareholders who voted online by 5 p.m. on May 8 qualified for the Online Early Bird prize drawings and will be automatically entered in all remaining proxy prize drawings. The winners are:
- $10,000 Prize – Jason D. Gardner (Kailua, HI)
- $2,500 Prize – Lorraine M. Igkurak (Kongiganak)
- $1,000 Prize –
- Lilly O. Napoka (Akiachak)
- Natalia M.E.A. Spein (Tuntutuliak)
- Susanna A. Chiklak (Mountain Village)
- Abigail A.M. Isaac (Marshall)
- Jerry M. Chris (Nunapitchuk)
Over 8 in 10 Elders have voted online. Nearly 7 in 10 voters finished voting in less than 3 minutes.
The deadline to qualify for the next round of proxy prize drawings is Friday, May 22 at 5 p.m. All valid paper and online proxies received by this deadline qualify for Regular Early Bird prizes, which include seven prizes totaling $17,500. The deadline for the final prize drawings is 5 p.m. on Monday, June 1 (all times AKDT).
“Quyana to all Shareholders who have cast their vote,” said Thom Aparuk Leonard, vice president of corporate affairs. “Voting at www.CalistaVote.com can easily be done with a smartphone, using our PIN Lookup Tool, and casting your vote early and online provides more opportunities to win prizes.”
If too few Shareholders vote (50 percent of voting shares or less) and the Annual Meeting is canceled, proxy prizes may not be awarded. Learn more at www.CalistaCorp.com/AnnualMeeting.
Calista Corporation has about 39,500 Shareholders and is the parent company of more than 40 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 inception, Calista has declared more than $180 million in dividends and distributions, including $13.7 million in Elders’ Benefit Program distributions to Shareholders. Since 1994, Calista Education and Culture has provided more than $7.7 million in scholarships to Calista Shareholders and Descendants. Calista can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/CalistaCorporation), YouTube (www.youtube.com/calistacorp) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/calistacorp).