VANCOUVER, BC, May 12, 2023
/PRNewswire/ - Wheaton Precious Metals™ Corp. ("Wheaton" or the
"Company") announces that the nominees listed below were elected to
the Board of Directors at the 2023 Annual and Special Meeting of
Shareholders. Detailed results of the vote for the Board of
Directors of the Company are shown below. As previously announced,
Mr. Eduardo Luna and Mr.
John Brough did not stand for
re-election. In addition, Ms. Jeane
Hull has been elected to the Board.
"I am excited to welcome Jeane
Hull to Wheaton's Board of Directors. Ms. Hull brings a
wealth of technical and operational experience that will no doubt
make her an excellent addition to the Wheaton Board," said
George Brack, Chair of
the Board of Wheaton. "With the addition of Ms. Hull, Wheaton
has exceeded our stated diversity target of 30% female board
members by 2024, with over 40% of the board now female."
2023 Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders Voting
Results
|
Nominee
|
Votes For
|
% For
|
Votes Withheld
|
% Withheld
|
|
George L.
Brack
|
322,284,673
|
97.61 %
|
7,878,957
|
2.39 %
|
|
Jaimie
Donovan
|
322,651,839
|
97.72 %
|
7,511,791
|
2.28 %
|
|
R. Peter
Gillin
|
314,292,950
|
95.19 %
|
15,870,680
|
4.81 %
|
|
Chantal
Gosselin
|
315,923,913
|
95.69 %
|
14,239,717
|
4.31 %
|
|
Jeane Hull
|
327,888,602
|
99.31 %
|
2,275,028
|
0.69 %
|
|
Glenn Ives
|
327,605,660
|
99.23 %
|
2,557,970
|
0.77 %
|
|
Charles A.
Jeannes
|
306,763,045
|
92.91 %
|
23,400,585
|
7.09 %
|
|
Marilyn
Schonberner
|
323,870,891
|
98.09 %
|
6,292,739
|
1.91 %
|
|
Randy V.J.
Smallwood
|
327,027,044
|
99.05 %
|
3,136,586
|
0.95 %
|
The following special matter was also approved by shareholders
at the 2022 Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders:
- the non-binding advisory resolution accepting the Company's
approach to executive compensation was carried with 92.02% of the
votes cast in favour of such resolution.
Jeane Hull – New
Director
Ms. Hull has over 35 years of mining operational
leadership and engineering experience, most notably holding the
positions of Chief Operating Officer for Rio Tinto plc at the
Kennecott Utah Copper Mine and Executive Vice President and Chief
Technical Officer of Peabody Energy Corporation. She also held
numerous management engineering and operations positions with Rio
Tinto affiliates. Prior to joining Rio Tinto, she held positions
with Mobil Mining and Minerals and has additional environmental
engineering and regulatory affairs experience in the public and
private sectors. Ms. Hull currently serves as a member of the Board
of Directors of Coeur Mining, Inc., Copper Mountain Mining
Corporation and Eprioc AB. She previously served on the boards of
Interfor Corporation, Trevali Mining Corporation, Pretium Resources
Inc. and Cloud Peak Energy Inc. Ms. Hull also serves on the
Advisory Board for South Dakota School of
Mines and Technology.
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