2022 Annual Meeting Voting Results
Investor Relations
Results of 2022 Proxy Voting
Voting results from the 2022 Annual Meeting of BNY Mellon Stockholders on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 are as follows:
Proposal 1 – The election of 11 directors for a term expiring at the end of our 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders:
Name | Total Number of Votes Cast "For" | Total Number of Votes Cast "Against" | Total Number of Abstentions | Total Number of Broker Non-Votes |
Linda Z. Cook | 665,295,202 | 12,693,635 | 1,202,944 | 50,174,767 |
Joseph J. Echevarria | 654,866,020 | 21,773,868 | 2,551,893 | 50,174,767 |
Thomas P. ("Todd") Gibbons | 671,267,051 | 6,629,876 | 1,294,854 | 50,174,767 |
M. Amy Gilliland | 672,446,068 | 5,462,474 | 1,283,239 | 50,174,767 |
Jeffrey A. Goldstein | 672,167,240 | 5,687,442 | 1,337,099 | 50,174,767 |
K. Guru Gowrappan | 671,880,061 | 5,853,911 | 1,457,269 | 50,174,767 |
Ralph Izzo | 666,715,402 | 11,104,214 | 1,372,165 | 50,174,767 |
Sandra E. O’Connor | 672,821,761 | 5,089,391 | 1,280,629 | 50,174,767 |
Elizabeth E. Robinson | 672,338,371 | 5,695,353 | 1,158,057 | 50,174,767 |
Frederick O. Terrell | 670,933,605 | 6,892,865 | 1,365,311 | 50,174,767 |
Alfred W. Zollar | 667,941,738 | 9,909,353 | 1,340,690 | 50,174,767 |
Proposal 2 – Advisory resolution to approve the 2021 compensation of BNY Mellon’s named executive officers:
Total | Percentage of Votes Cast | |
For | 649,751,236 | 96.07% |
Against | 26,597,571 | 3.93% |
Abstain | 2,842,974 | * |
Broker Non-Votes | 50,174,767 | * |
Proposal 3 – Ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as BNY Mellon’s independent registered public accountants for the year ending December 31, 2022:
Total | Percentage of Votes Cast | |
For | 717,544,886 | 98.52% |
Against | 10,749,448 | 1.48% |
Abstain | 1,072,214 | * |
Broker Non-Votes | — | * |
Proposal 4 – Stockholder proposal regarding stockholder requests to call a special meeting:
Total | Percentage of Votes Cast | |
For | 257,094,958 | 38.12% |
Against | 417,378,420 | 61.88% |
Abstain | 4,718,403 | * |
Broker Non-Votes | 50,174,767 | * |
* Abstentions and broker non-votes were not counted as votes cast.