Seven Calista Corporation Shareholders Win 2024 Early Bird Proxy Prizes

Nearly 11,000 Shareholders Eligible for All Prize Drawings

May 30, 2024

(Anchorage, Alaska) – Seven Calista 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 Calista voters this year are under the age of 40, so offering digital options is important. We designed voting at www.CalistaVote.com 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 www.CalistaCorp.com/AnnualMeeting.

Calista 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, Calista has provided more than $6.4 million in scholarships to its Shareholders and Descendants. Since inception, Calista has declared more than $141.6 million in dividends and distributions, including $11.3 million in Elders’ Benefit Program distributions to Shareholders. Calista can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.