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** Exercise Your Right to Vote ***

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the

Stockholder Meeting to Be Held on July 23, 2019.

ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, INC./WMS Meeting Information

For holders as of: May 31, 2019

Date:   July 23, 2019 Time:  10:00 AM Eastern Time

Location:     Meeting live via the Internet-please visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/WMS2019.

The company will be hosting the meeting live via the Internet this year. To attend the meeting via the Internet please visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/WMS2019 and be sure to have the information that is printed in the box marked by the arrow

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ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, INC./WMS

4640 TRUEMAN BLVD. HILLIARD, OH 43026

 

You are receiving this communication because you hold shares in the company named above or you are a participant in the Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

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Voting Items

 

The Board of Directors recommends you vote

FOR all of the nominees listed and FOR proposals

2 and 3.

 

1. Election of Directors

 

1a.    Ross M. Jones

 

1b.   C. Robert Kidder

 

1c.    Manuel J. Perez de la Mesa

 

 

2. Ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for

fiscal year 2020.

 

3. Approval, in a non-binding advisory vote, of the compensation for named executive officers.

 

NOTE: Such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof.

 

 

 



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