Scotiabank Announces Election of Directors
/EINPresswire.com/ -- TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - April 12, 2016) - Scotiabank announced that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated February 9, 2016 were elected as directors of the Bank. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at its Annual Meeting of Shareholders earlier today in Calgary, Alberta are set out below.
Election of Directors
On a vote by ballot, each of the following 17 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of the Bank:
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Votes
Nominee Votes For % For Withheld % Withheld
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Nora A. Aufreiter 663,527,920 99.65% 2,303,721 0.35%
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Guillermo E. Babatz 663,317,710 99.62% 2,513,931 0.38%
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Scott B. Bonham 663,660,822 99.67% 2,170,819 0.33%
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Ronald A. Brenneman 652,497,510 98.00% 13,334,131 2.00%
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Charles H. Dallara 663,553,016 99.66% 2,278,625 0.34%
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William R. Fatt 659,903,849 99.11% 5,927,792 0.89%
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Tiff Macklem 663,909,625 99.71% 1,922,016 0.29%
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Thomas C. O'Neill 642,614,423 96.51% 23,217,218 3.49%
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Eduardo Pacheco 652,876,631 98.05% 12,955,010 1.95%
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Brian J. Porter 663,842,728 99.70% 1,987,944 0.30%
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Una M. Power 663,514,758 99.65% 2,316,883 0.35%
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Aaron W. Regent 659,530,748 99.05% 6,300,893 0.95%
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Indira V.
Samarasekera 663,276,188 99.62% 2,555,453 0.38%
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Susa L. Segal 661,650,740 99.37% 4,180,601 0.63%
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Paul D. Sobey 650,827,034 97.75% 15,004,607 2.25%
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Barbara S. Thomas 661,252,806 99.32% 4,518,643 0.68%
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L. Scott Thomson 654,946,147 98.37% 10,825,386 1.63%
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Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held earlier today will be published shortly on www.scotiabank.com, and filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.
About Scotiabank
Scotiabank is Canada's international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and Asia-Pacific. We are dedicated to helping our 23 million customers become better off through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 89,000 employees and assets of $920 billion (as at January 31, 2016), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges (NYSE: BNS). Scotiabank distributes the Bank's media releases using Marketwired. For more information, please visit www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankViews.
Media Contact:
Jennifer Gordon
Public, Corporate and Government Affairs
Scotiabank
(416) 933-2927
jennifer.gordon@scotiabank.com
