SPAR Group, Inc. announced on September 7, 2023, in an e-mail to the Corporation, Mr. Sean M. Whelan resigned from the Corporation's Board of Directors and its Committees, effective September 30, 2023, and said he will not be a candidate for re-election at the Annual Meeting of the Corporation's stockholders scheduled for November 9, 2023. Mr. Whelan joined the Board on October 14, 2021, and was Chairman of the Corporation's Audit Committee, and a member of its Governance Committee and Compensation Committee.  He was an independent director both under the general Nasdaq Rules and under Nasdaq's more stringent Audit Committee Rules, the designated audit committee financial expert under SEC Rules, and one of the Board's two Super Independent Directors under the Corporation's By-Laws (which requires three such directors).