Cerecor Inc.

06/16/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/16/2021 04:01

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders (Form 8-K)

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The Company held its 2021 Annual Meeting on June 15, 2021. In connection with the Annual Meeting, there were 95,457,198 shares outstanding as of the record date, which was April 22, 2021, of which 78,321,287 shares, or approximately 82.05%, were present or represented by proxy. At the Annual Meeting, stockholders voted on the following items:

Proposal 1: Election of Directors

By the vote reflected below, the Company's stockholders elected each of the following individuals to the Board to hold office until the 2022 Annual Meeting and until their respective successors are elected and qualified.
Name
For
Withheld
Broker Non-Votes
Sol Barer, Ph.D.
21,612,165 45,018,742 -
Steven Boyd
26,621,967 40,008,940 -
Suzanne Bruhn, Ph.D.
27,319,716 39,311,191 -
Michael Cola
24,316,994 42,313,913 -
Phil Gutry
25,553,121 41,077,786 -
Gilla Kaplan, Ph.D. 27,350,517 39,280,390
Joseph Miller
26,432,148 40,198,759 -
Magnus Persson, M.D., Ph.D.
18,860,279 47,770,628 -

The Company understands that the substantial majority of the votes that were withheld for each director nominee were withheld by the Company's largest stockholder, an investment fund directed by one of the members of the Company's board of directors.

Proposal 2: Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Company's stockholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2021. This proposal was approved by the votes indicated below:
For
Against
Abstain
Broker Non-Votes
78,266,029 43,239 12,019 -



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