Kelso Technologies Inc. Announces 2025 Annual General and Special Meeting Results

WEST KELOWNA, British Columbia and BONHAM, Texas, June 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kelso Technologies Inc. (“Kelso” or the “Company”), (TSX: KLS) is pleased to announce the detailed voting results from the Annual General and Special Meeting of shareholders held on June 3, 2025 (the “Meeting”).

A total of 24,737,277 common shares of the 55,160,086 common shares outstanding at the record date were voted at the Meeting, representing 44.85% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company at the record date.

Election of Directors
At the Meeting, the shareholders set the number of directors to be elected at five, with 96.2% For and 3.8% Against.

Each of the following nominees set forth in the Company’s management information circular dated April 21, 2025 was elected as a director of the Company to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are elected or appointed:

Nominee	% Votes For	% Votes Withheld
Frank Busch	81.24%	18.76%
Paul Cass	77.37%	22.63%
Laura Roach	80.43%	19.57%
Jesse V. Crews	76.69%	23.31%
Mark Temen	81.06%	18.94%

Appointment of Auditors
At the Meeting the shareholders also approved the reappointment of Smythe, LLP as the auditors of the Company with voting of 92.03% For and 7.97% Withheld.

Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
At the Meeting, the adoption of the Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan was approved, with 69.56% For and 30.44% Against.

After the Meeting the following officers were appointed:

Frank Busch – President and Chief Executive Officer
Sameer Uplenchwar – Chief Financial Officer
*Anthony Andrukaitis – Chief Operating Officer (retiring June 30, 2025)
Maureen O'Hanley Doucette – Corporate Secretary
*Amanda Smith, Vice President Operations (moving to COO on July 1, 2025)
Patrick Hankey, Controller, Kelso Technologies (USA) Inc.

About Kelso Technologies
Kelso is a diverse transportation equipment company that specializes in the creation, production, sales and distribution of proprietary products used in rail and automotive transportation. The Company’s rail equipment business has been developed as a designer and reliable domestic supplier of unique high-quality rail tank car valves that provide for the safe handling and containment of commodities during rail transport. Kelso products are specifically designed to address the challenging issues of public safety, worker well-being and potential environmental harm while providing effective and efficient operational advantages to customers. Kelso’s innovation objectives are to create products that diminish the potentially dangerous effects of human and technology error through the use of the Company’s portfolio of proprietary products.