Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1951U

Draper Esprit PLC

27 July 2020

 

27 July 2020

Draper Esprit plc

 ("Draper Esprit" or the "Company")  

Results of 2020 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Draper Esprit (LSE: GROW, Euronext Growth: GRW), a leading venture capital firm investing in and developing high growth digital technology businesses, is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at its AGM held on 27 July 2020 were duly passed by shareholders on a poll. The poll results on each resolution proposed are set out below:-

Resolution	For1	% of votes cast	Against	% of votes cast	Withheld2
1. To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts of the Company for the financial year ended 31 March 2020 together with the Directors' Report and Auditors' Report thereon.	72,522,396	100.00%	790	0.00%	0
2. To approve the Remuneration and Nomination Committee Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2020.	71,429,243	98.50%	1,087,199	1.50%	6,744
3. That Martin Davis be elected as a Director	72,523,186	100.00%	0	0.00%	0
4. That Stuart Chapman be re-elected as a Director	72,523,186	100.00%	0	0.00%	0
5. That Karen Slatford be re-elected as a Director	67,325,295	94.64%	3,811,544	5.36%	1,386,347
6. That Grahame Cook be re-elected as a Director	72,475,185	99.93%	48,001	0.07%	0
7. That Richard Pelly be re-elected as a Director	72,517,376	99.99%	5,810	0.01%	0
8. That Ben Wilkinson be re-elected as a Director	72,480,995	99.94%	42,191	0.06%	0
9. To reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company and to authorise the Audit Committee to determine the amount of the auditors' remuneration	70,448,415	100.00%	2,191	0.00%	2,072,580
10. To authorise the Directors to allot shares	72,520,380	100.00%	2,806	0.00%	0
11. Authority to disapply statutory pre-emption rights	69,712,600	96.13%	2,808,296	3.87%	2,290
12. Additional authority to disapply statutory pre-emption rights	67,641,520	93.27%	4,879,376	6.73%	2,290
13. To authorise the Company to purchase its own ordinary shares	70,450,975	97.14%	2,072,211	2.86%	0

1.  Any proxy arrangement which gave discretion to the Chair has been included in the "for" totals.

2.  A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted "For" or "Against" any resolution.

Enquiries

Draper Esprit plc	[phone]
Martin Davis (Chief Executive Officer) Ben Wilkinson (Chief Financial Officer)
Numis Securities Nominated Adviser & Joint Broker	[phone]
Simon Willis Richard Thomas Jamie Loughborough
Goodbody Stockbrokers Euronext Growth Adviser & Joint Broker	[phone]
Don Harrington Charlotte Craigie Dearbhla Gallagher
Powerscourt Public relations	[phone]
James White Elly Williamson Jessica Hodgson

 

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