Questions and Answers about the Meeting and Voting
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE MEETING AND
VOTING
What is a proxy?
A proxy is your legal
designation of another person, called a proxy holder, to vote the shares that you own. We designated Donald F. McAleenan, our Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and Peter M. Jackson, our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, to
act as proxy holders at the annual meeting as to all shares for which proxy cards are returned or voting instructions are provided by internet or telephone.
What is a proxy statement?
A proxy statement is a document that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) regulations require us to give you when we ask you to
provide a proxy (by voting by phone or internet or, if applicable, by returning a proxy card) designating the proxy holders described above to vote on your behalf.
What is the difference between a
stockholder of record and a stockholder who holds stock in street name, also called a beneficial owner?
If your shares are registered in
your name at our transfer agent, Computershare Shareowner Services LLC, you are a stockholder of record.
If your shares are registered at Computershare Shareowner
Services LLC in the name of a broker, bank, trustee, nominee, or other similar stockholder of record on your behalf, your shares are held in street name and you are the beneficial owner of the shares.
How do you obtain admission to the annual meeting?
Stockholders of Record.
Stockholders of record must bring a government-issued photo identification card to gain admission to the annual meeting.
Street Name Holders
.
To obtain admission to the annual meeting, a street name holder must (i) bring a government-issued photo identification
card and (ii) ask his or her broker or bank for a legal proxy and must bring that legal proxy with him or her to the meeting. If you do not receive the legal proxy in time, bring your most recent brokerage statement with you to the meeting. We
can use that to verify your ownership of Common Stock and admit you to the meeting. However, you will not be able to vote your shares at the meeting without a legal proxy. Please note that if you own shares in street name, and you are issued a legal
proxy, any previously executed proxy will be revoked, and your vote will not be counted unless you appear at the meeting and vote in person.
What different methods can you use to
vote?
By Written Proxy
.
Stockholders who elect to receive their proxy materials by mail may vote by mailing the written proxy card.
By Telephone and Internet Proxy
.
All stockholders of record may also vote by telephone from the U.S., using the toll-free telephone number
provided on the proxy card or in the website listed on the Notice, or by the internet, using the procedures and instructions described in the Notice or proxy card. Street name holders may vote by telephone or the internet if their bank, broker, or
other stockholder of record makes those methods available. If that is the case, the bank, broker, or other stockholder of record will enclose the instructions with the Proxy Statement or other notice of the meeting. The telephone and internet voting
procedures, including the use of control numbers, are designed to authenticate stockholders identities, allow stockholders to vote their shares, and confirm that their instructions have been properly recorded.
In Person
.
All stockholders may vote in person at the meeting (unless they are street name holders without a legal proxy, as described in the
foregoing question).
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