I’m not sure what happened to a missing post I wrote in 2013 about one of my heroes, John Chevedden, but I’m sure it had a link to a piece by Ross Kerber at Reuters. Here I’ll update that missing post from the past and reflect on John’s continuing impact, including the 2025 season. Back […]
2024 Proxy Season Results are almost entirely in for proposals I submitted for this year. This updates a prior post of 7/23/24. I haven’t reported any additional losses since that post. I can now count wins or partial wins on 32 out of 52 proposals, about 62%. We lost on 20 proposals. Six were a […]
Snowflake 2024 Proxy Votes. James McRitchie’s proposal for the annual election of all directors is one of several items to be voted on before or during the Snowflake Inc. (SNOW) annual meeting on July 2, 2024, at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Attend the annual meeting online or in person. I suggest you vote in advance. However, […]
nCino 2024. Vote FOR #5 Elect Each Director Annually, AGIANST all Board proposals, except the auditor
Tesla 2024 Proxy Votes. James McRitchie’s Proposal for the annual election of all directors is one of several items to be voted on before or during the Tesla (TSLA) annual meeting on June 13, 2024, at 1:30 a.m. Pacific time. Attend the annual meeting online or in person. I suggest you vote in advance. However, you […]
Cognizant 2024
DexCom 2024 – Vote AGAINST Sayer, Altman, Augustinos, Collins, Dahut, Heller, Malady, Auditor, Pay. Vote FOR Driscoll, Foletta, Topol, Pay, Pay Equity Disclosure, Transparency in Lobbying
SOC Takes on SBUX: Finally, The First ESG Proxy Contest Under UPC For over a year, we and others speculated that ESG proponents would pounce on universal proxy cards (UPC) as a way to escalate efforts to exert influence over companies. Since UPC became mandatory in September 2022, we have seen exactly zero proxy contests […]
The April edition of Ralph Ward’s Boardroom Insider offers excellent tips on curbing board expanses. Costs of corporate governance soared after passage of Sarbanes-Oxley. While the rate of increase has now declined, governance costs continue to climb, with paperwork and incentives to hire more outside counsel and consulting advice. Ward points out that money saved […]