Americas Gold and Silver Announces Election of Directors and Annual and Special Meeting Voting Results
June 30 2022 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Americas Gold and Silver Corporation (“the “Company”) (TSX:USA;
NYSE American: USAS) is pleased to announce that the nominees
listed in the management proxy circular dated May 17, 2022 (the
“Circular”) for the Company’s annual and special meeting of
Shareholders held June 29, 2022 (the “Meeting”) were elected as
directors of the Company at the Meeting and to welcome Christine
Carson to the Board of Directors. Detailed results of the vote for
the election of directors held at the Meeting yesterday in Toronto
as well as the results for other matters voted on at the Meeting
are set out below.
“We welcome Christine to the Board of Directors and look forward
to benefitting from her experience and entrepreneurship” stated
Darren Blasutti, President and CEO. “Christine brings a wealth of
pragmatic, corporate governance expertise and is expected to
immediately enhance the overall governance of the Company.”
Ms. Carson is the sole founder and CEO of Carson Proxy Advisors
Ltd., a proxy solicitation firm that specializes in executing
shareholder communications, proxy solicitation and corporate
governance strategies for Canadian public companies. She has spent
over 20 years advising publicly traded companies on a wide variety
of special situations and issues, including proxy battles, hostile
take overs, M&A, consent solicitations, corporate governance,
executive compensation, and shareholder proposals. She has
counseled numerous Boards of Directors, CEOs, corporate
secretaries, corporate counsels, investor relations professionals
and has spoken at industry conferences on the complexities of
influencing shareholder voting in Canada.
Prior to founding Carson Proxy, Ms. Carson was involved in
establishing two successful proxy solicitation firms and a Transfer
and Trust Company in Canada.
Nominee
Votes For
% For
Votes Withheld
% Withheld
Alex Davidson
58,016,850
98.35%
971,231
1.65%
Darren Blasutti
55,941,503
94.84%
3,046,578
5.16%
Christine Carson
57,998,797
98.32%
989,284
1.68%
Alan Edwards
58,091,564
98.48%
896,518
1.52%
Bradley R. Kipp
58,072,700
98.45%
915,381
1.55%
Gordon Pridham
58,069,684
98.44%
918,397
1.56%
Manuel Rivera
58,027,520
98.37%
960,561
1.63%
Lorie Waisberg
57,968,960
98.27%
1,019,121
1.73%
At the Meeting, the following resolutions as set out in the
Circular, were passed as ordinary resolutions of the Company’s
shareholders (i) fixing the number of directors on the Company’s
Board at eight persons; (ii) appointing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
as auditors of the Company for the ensuing year and authorizing the
Directors to fix their remuneration; (iii) re-approving of the
Company’s Deferred Share Unit Plan, as amended by the amendments
all as more particularly described in the Circular; (iv)
re-approving of Company’s Restricted Share Unit Plan and (v)
re-approving of the Company’s Stock Option Plan.
The results of these matters considered at the Meeting are
reported in the Report of Voting Results as filed on SEDAR
(www.sedar.com) on June 30, 2022.
A total of 75,271,089 the Company’s common shares were voted,
representing 41.69% of total shares issued and outstanding as at
the record date for the Meeting.
About Americas Gold and Silver Corporation
Americas Gold and Silver Corporation is a high-growth precious
metals mining company with multiple assets in North America. The
Company owns and operates the Relief Canyon mine in Nevada, USA,
the Cosalá Operations in Sinaloa, Mexico and manages the 60%-owned
Galena Complex in Idaho, USA. The Company also owns the San Felipe
development project in Sonora, Mexico. For further information,
please see SEDAR or www.americas-gold.com.
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Stefan Axell VP, Corporate Development & Communications
Americas Gold and Silver Corporation 416-874-1708
Darren Blasutti President and CEO Americas Gold and Silver
Corporation 416‐848‐9503
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