NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At the Company’s annual stockholders’ meeting held on April 28, 2011, NYSE Euronext (NYX) shareholders:
- Elected the full slate of 16 director nominees to the Company’s Board of Directors, with an average approval rate of 80% of votes cast,
- Ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2011,
- Did not approve a Company proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter,
- Approved on an advisory, non-binding basis, the Company’s executive compensation,
- Approved on an advisory, non-binding basis, a frequency of every one year for holding the non-binding, advisory vote on executive compensation,
- Approved a stockholder proposal regarding the power of stockholders to call special meetings, and
- Approved a stockholder proposal regarding stockholder action by written consent.
To be approved, the proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter required the affirmative vote of at least 80% of the shares of our outstanding stock entitled to be voted at the meeting. The proposal received the support of 94.66% of the shares of our outstanding stock actually voted but only 75.45% the shares of our outstanding stock entitled to be voted, and therefore the proposal was not approved.
Among the 16 elected directors is Dominique Cerutti, the Company’s president and deputy chief executive officer and head of Global Technology, who is a newly elected member of the Board. Mr. Cerutti has considerable experience in leading the business operations of a global technology company, where he served in several senior leadership roles. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Mr. Cerutti served as general manager of IBM Southwest Europe from 2005 until 2009. For more details click here: http://www.nyse.com/corpgovernance/1261133696939.html
The Company’s Inspector of Elections, MacKenzie Partners, Inc., informed the Company of the following shareholder vote results:
- The shareholders elected the following persons to the Board of Directors:
| Director | For | Against | Abstain | ||||||
| Jan-Michiel Hessels (Chairman) | 133,851,068 | 28,845,125 | 706,663 | ||||||
| Marshall N. Carter (Deputy Chairman) | 135,322,647 | 27,441,975 | 638,234 | ||||||
| Duncan L. Niederauer (Chief Executive Officer) | 134,981,604 | 27,783,480 | 637,772 | ||||||
| Dominique Cerutti (President & Deputy Chief Executive Officer) | 135,452,710 | 27,234,068 | 716,078 | ||||||
| André Bergen | 134,728,875 | 27,895,192 | 778,789 | ||||||
| Ellyn L. Brown | 134,821,425 | 27,872,308 | 709,123 | ||||||
| Patricia M. Cloherty | 134,730,990 | 27,934,712 | 737,154 | ||||||
| Sir George Cox | 134,668,398 | 28,016,805 | 717,653 | ||||||
| Sylvain Hefes | 134,832,508 | 27,856,717 | 713,631 | ||||||
| Duncan M. McFarland | 131,308,762 | 31,382,834 | 711,260 | ||||||
| James J. McNulty | 123,603,472 | 39,083,243 | 716,141 | ||||||
| Ricardo Salgado | 131,064,187 | 31,617,031 | 721,638 | ||||||
| Robert G. Scott | 134,913,723 | 27,766,088 | 723,045 | ||||||
| Jackson P. Tai | 135,090,669 | 27,573,253 | 738,934 | ||||||
| Rijnhard van Tets | 134,593,133 | 28,088,299 | 721,424 | ||||||
| Sir Brian Williamson | 130,923,333 | 31,766,376 | 713,147 |
- The following table lists the vote results for the remaining proposals, other than the proposal to determine the frequency of the advisory vote on executive compensation:
| Proposal | For | Against | Abstain | ||||||
| Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2011 | 202,018,332 | 4,963,590 | 1,217,298 | ||||||
| Company proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter. | 197,088,940 | 10,309,853 | 800,427 | ||||||
| Non-binding advisory vote on a Company proposal to approve executive compensation | 135,777,181 | 26,248,587 | 1,377,088 | ||||||
| Stockholder proposal regarding the power of stockholders to call special meetings | 119,834,600 | 42,955,869 | 612,387 | ||||||
| Stockholder proposal regarding stockholder action by written consent | 129,280,999 | 33,137,009 | 984,848 |
- The following table lists the vote results of the non-binding, advisory vote on a Company proposal to determine the frequency of the advisory vote on executive compensation:
| Every 1 year | Every 2 years | Every 3 years | Abstain | ||||||
| 126,809,533 | 2,015,090 | 22,411,816 | 2,688,242 |
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.
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