Three new directors join CN's board, Robert Pace the company's new
chairman
VANCOUVER,
April 23, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - CN
(TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today that the nominees listed in
the management proxy circular dated March
11, 2014, were elected as directors of CN. The detailed
results of the vote for the election of directors held at CN's
Annual Meeting of Shareholders on April
23 in Vancouver are set out
below.
Election of Directors
On a vote by ballot, each of the following 13 nominees proposed
by management was elected as a director of CN:
Nominee |
Votes For |
% For |
Votes
Withheld |
% Withheld |
A. Charles Baillie |
578,279,246 |
99.46 |
3,158,792 |
0.54 |
Donald J. Carty |
578,459,835 |
99.49 |
2,978,201 |
0.51 |
Amb. Gordon D. Giffin |
564,920,591 |
97.16 |
16,517,118 |
2.84 |
Edith E. Holiday |
577,675,687 |
99.35 |
3,762,348 |
0.65 |
V. Maureen Kempston Darkes |
565,714,532 |
97.30 |
15,723,504 |
2.70 |
The Hon. Denis Losier |
565,461,216 |
97.25 |
15,976,821 |
2.75 |
The Hon. Edward C. Lumley |
579,803,483 |
99.72 |
1,634,553 |
0.28 |
The Hon. Kevin G. Lynch |
580,180,808 |
99.78 |
1,257,228 |
0.22 |
Claude Mongeau |
580,502,342 |
99.84 |
935,694 |
0.16 |
James E. O'Connor |
564,808,898 |
97.14 |
16,629,140 |
2.86 |
Robert Pace |
575,941,852 |
99.05 |
5,496,184 |
0.95 |
Robert L. Phillips |
580,231,868 |
99.79 |
1,206,168 |
0.21 |
Laura Stein |
580,225,150 |
99.79 |
1,212,886 |
0.21 |
Three of the directors are new to CN's board:
- Kevin G. Lynch, vice-chair, BMO
Financial Group, and a former clerk of the privy council, secretary
to the cabinet, and head of the public service of Canada;
- Robert L. Phillips, the
President of R.L. Phillips Investments Inc. and a former president
and chief executive officer of British
Columbia Railway Company Ltd., and
- Laura Stein, senior
vice-president, general counsel, of The Clorox Company.
Robert Pace was also elected as
chairman of the company's board of directors. Mr. Pace, who joined
CN's board in 1994, is president and chief executive officer of The
Pace Group Ltd., based in Halifax,
N.S., which is engaged in radio broadcasting, real estate and
environmental services.
Biographical information on all directors is available at
http://www.cn.ca/-/media/Files/Investors/Investor-Shareholder/information-circular-2014-en.pdf.
Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual
Meeting held earlier today will be filed with the Canadian and U.S.
securities regulators.
CN is a true backbone of the economy,
transporting approximately C$250
billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business
sectors, ranging from resource products to manufactured products to
consumer goods, across a rail network spanning Canada and mid-America. CN - Canadian National
Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries --
serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince
Rupert, B.C., Montreal,
Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of
Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth,
Minn./Superior, Wis., and
Jackson, Miss., with connections
to all points in North America.
For more information on CN, visit the company's website at
www.cn.ca.
SOURCE CN