At the 2023 annual meeting, the shareholders elected each of Verizon’s twelve director nominees to a one-year term and ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
The management proposal regarding approval of Verizon’s executive compensation received 90.84% of the vote for and 9.16% of the vote against. On the management proposal regarding the frequency of future advisory votes to approve executive compensation, the shareholders voted to hold such vote every year with 96.50% of the vote.
The proposals submitted by shareholders received the following votes:
- Government requests to remove content: 2.74% for; 97.26% against
- Prohibit political contributions: 6.25% for; 93.75% against
- Amend clawback policy: 37.87% for; 62.13% against
- Shareholder ratification of annual equity awards: 11.62% for; 88.38% against
- Independent chair: 29.91% for; 70.09% against
