GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ANNUAL MEETING
Quorum
The presence of the holders of a
majority of the outstanding shares of our common stock, in person or by proxy, will constitute a quorum for transacting business at the Annual Meeting. Abstentions and broker non-votes are counted as present
for purposes of establishing a quorum at the meeting.
Proxies
The Board appointed the following executive officers to act as proxies: Mary T. Barra and Craig B. Glidden (collectively, the Proxies). If
you sign and return your proxy card or voting instruction form with voting instructions, one or more of the Proxies will vote your shares as you direct on the matters described in this Proxy Statement. If you sign and return your proxy card or
voting instruction form without voting instructions, one or more of the Proxies will vote your shares as recommended by the Board.
Who Can
Vote
If you are a holder of the Companys common stock as of the close of business on April 8, 2019, or you hold a valid proxy, you
are entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. On that date, the Company had 1,420,831,726 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote. Each share of our common stock entitles the holder to one vote.
Voting Without Attending the Annual Meeting
To vote your shares without attending the meeting, please follow the instructions for voting on the Notice, on your proxy card, or on the voting
instructions form. When you timely submit your proxy or voting instructions in the proper form, your shares will be voted according to your instructions. You may give instructions to vote for or against or abstain from voting for the election of all
the Board of Directors nominees or any individual nominee and to vote for or against or abstain from voting on each of the other matters submitted for voting. If you sign, date, and return the proxy card or voting instruction form without
specifying how you wish to cast your vote, your shares will be voted by the Proxies according to the recommendations of the Board of Directors, as indicated above. internet and telephone voting is available 24 hours a day, through 11:59 p.m.
Eastern Time on Monday, June 3, 2019.
Revoking Your Proxy
After you have submitted your proxy or voting instructions by Internet, telephone, or mail, you may revoke your proxy at any time until it is voted at
the Annual Meeting. If you are a shareholder of record, you may do this by (1) granting a new proxy bearing a later date (which automatically revokes the earlier proxy); (2) sending a written notice of revocation to the Corporate Secretary at
Mail Code 482-C24-A68, 300 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan 48265, or by e-mail to shareholder.relations@gm.com; or
(3) by participating in the Annual Meeting and voting your shares electronically during the meeting. Participation in the Annual Meeting will not cause your previously granted proxy to be revoked unless you specifically make that request. For
shares that you hold beneficially in the name of a broker, bank, or other nominee (that is, in street name), you may change your vote by submitting new voting instructions to your broker, bank, or nominee, or by participating in the
meeting and electronically voting your shares during the meeting.
Annual Meeting Voting Results
Our independent inspector of elections, Broadridge Financial Services, Inc., will tabulate the vote at the Annual Meeting. We will provide voting results
on our website and in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC.
Shareholder of
Record and Beneficial Shareholder
If your shares are owned directly in your name in an account with GMs stock
transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (Computershare), you are considered the shareholder of record of those shares in your account. If your shares are held in an account with a broker, bank, or other nominee as
custodian on your behalf, you are considered a beneficial shareholder of those shares, which are held in street name. The broker, bank, or other nominee is considered the shareholder of record for those shares. As the beneficial owner,
you have the right to instruct the broker, bank, or other nominee on how to vote the shares in your account. In order for your shares to be voted in the way you would like, you must provide voting instructions to your broker, bank, or
other nominee by the deadline provided in the proxy materials you receive from your broker, bank, or other nominee. If you do not provide voting instructions to your broker, bank, or other nominee, whether your shares can be voted on your behalf
depends on the type of item being considered for vote. Under NYSE rules, brokers are permitted to exercise discretionary voting authority only on routine matters. Therefore, your broker may vote on Item No. 3 (Ratification of
the Selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the Companys Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for 2019) even if you do not provide voting instructions because it is considered a routine matter. Your broker is not permitted
to vote on the other agenda Items if you do not provide voting instructions because those items involve matters that are considered nonroutine.
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