Empery Digital Inc. (EMPD) · Oct 15, 2026 · Other events

Empery Digital board election favors management, but results remain preliminary

Board retained — Eight company nominees elected to a nine-member board

Empery Digital’s annual meeting keeps its board in place after a contested campaign, allowing management to refocus on its AI infrastructure strategy.

Empery Digital is transitioning from a bitcoin-treasury vehicle toward minority investments in AI infrastructure and powered data centers, including projects tied to Hunt Properties and Cardinal Data Power. That strategic pivot was already public and had become the center of a contested shareholder campaign.

Management cleared the immediate governance hurdle. Preliminary results say shareholders elected eight company nominees to the nine-member board, including new directors E. Taylor Robertson and Aaron T. Morris. 〔0〕 That leaves the incumbent strategy in control for now rather than handing influence to the activist slate.

The result removes a near-term distraction but does not validate the AI strategy financially. The filing contains no new investment terms, operating milestones, lease commitments, revenue, or cash-flow data; it mainly gives management room to continue pursuing the existing bitcoin-plus-AI-infrastructure plan. The company says it can now focus on executing that plan, but that is management framing rather than evidence that the projects have advanced. 〔1〕

The disclosure is not fully clean yet. The filing calls the result preliminary and says final certified results will follow. 〔2〕 More notably, it says eight nominees were elected while listing nine directors for the next year, so the final certification matters for resolving the exact board composition.

Bottom line: This is a modest positive for continuity: shareholders did not dislodge the board during a strategic transition. It clears the governance contest, but it does not yet demonstrate that Empery’s AI-infrastructure investments are producing business results.

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Final certified annual-meeting results

Original filing on SEC EDGAR

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