Results of 2021 Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 2554F
Draper Esprit PLC
14 July 2021
 

 

14 July 2021

Draper Esprit plc

("Draper Esprit" or the "Company")

Results of 2021 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 14 July 2021 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 the Directors' report and the accounts for the Company for the financial year ended 31 March 2021.

119,528,600

100.00%

6

0.00%

84,620

2.  To approve the Remuneration and Nomination Committee Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2021, which sets out the remuneration paid to Directors during the year.

116,604,005

97.48%

3,009,221

2.52%

0

3.  To re-elect Karen Slatford as a Director.

101,182,924

85.96%

16,519,620

14.04%

1,910,682

4.  To re-elect Martin Davis as a Director.

119,396,592

99.82%

216,096

0.18%

538

5.  To re-elect Stuart Chapman as a Director.

119,386,787

99.81%

225,901

0.19%

538

6.  To re-elect Ben Wilkinson as a Director.

119,310,781

99.75%

301,907

0.25%

538

7.  To re-elect Grahame Cook as a Director.

118,960,422

99.45%

652,266

0.55%

538

8.  To re-elect Richard Pelly as a Director.

119,096,219

99.57%

516,469

0.43%

538

9.  To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company to hold office from the conclusion of the AGM until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company at which the Company's accounts are laid.

116,608,571

97.49%

3,002,854

2.51%

1,801

10.  To authorise the Audit, Risk and Valuations Committee of the Company to determine the remuneration of the auditors.

119,587,765

99.98%

23,660

0.02%

1,801

11.  To authorise the Directors to allot shares.

111,321,065

93.07%

8,292,161

6.93%

0

12.  Authority to disapply statutory pre-emption  rights.

119,606,186

99.99%

7,040

0.01%

0

13.  Additional authority to disapply statutory pre-emption  rights.

116,604,286

97.48%

3,008,940

2.52%

0

14.  To authorise the Company to purchase
its own ordinary shares.

116,588,278

97.49%

3,003,012

2.51%

21,936

15.  To authorise the Directors to call a general meeting other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

110,977,107

92.78%

8,635,329

7.22%

790

 

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

Martin Davis (Chief Executive Officer)
Ben Wilkinson (Chief Financial Officer)

+44 (0)20 7931 8800

 

 

Numis Securities
Nominated Adviser & Joint Corporate Broker

Richard Thomas
Jamie Loughborough
Simon Willis

+44 (0)20 7260 1000

Goodbody Stockbrokers UC
Euronext Growth Advisor & Joint Corporate Broker

Don Harrington
Charlotte Craigie
Linda Clarke

+44 (0)20 3841 6202

Powerscourt
Public relations

Elly Williamson
Jane Glover

+44 (0)7970 246 725 /
+44 (0)7713 246 126

 

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