TORONTO, April 6, 2017 /CNW/ - Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE) announced that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated February 8, 2017, were elected as directors of RBC. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at its Annual Meeting earlier today in Toronto, Ontario, are set out below.
Each of the following 13 nominees was elected as a Director.
| Nominee |
Votes For |
% For |
Votes Withheld |
% Withheld |
| Andrew A. Chisholm |
736,024,706 |
99.48% |
3,864,684 |
0.52% |
| Jacynthe Côté |
736,295,662 |
99.51% |
3,593,729 |
0.49% |
| Toos N. Daruvala |
735,447,081 |
99.40% |
4,442,310 |
0.60% |
| David F. Denison |
734,015,717 |
99.21% |
5,873,673 |
0.79% |
| Richard L. George |
735,829,640 |
99.45% |
4,058,471 |
0.55% |
| Alice D. Laberge |
734,258,412 |
99.24% |
5,629,699 |
0.76% |
| Michael H. McCain |
728,369,887 |
98.44% |
11,518,224 |
1.56% |
| David McKay |
736,966,093 |
99.60% |
2,922,790 |
0.40% |
| Heather Munroe-Blum |
735,774,238 |
99.44% |
4,114,521 |
0.56% |
| Thomas A. Renyi |
727,068,219 |
98.27% |
12,821,311 |
1.73% |
| Kathleen Taylor |
731,017,861 |
98.80% |
8,872,202 |
1.20% |
| Bridget A. van Kralingen |
735,225,190 |
99.37% |
4,664,341 |
0.63% |
| Thierry Vandal |
735,305,151 |
99.38% |
4,583,874 |
0.62% |
Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting will be available shortly at http://www.rbc.com/investorrelations/ and will be filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is Canada's largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis. We have over 80,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 35 other countries. For more information, please visit http://www.rbc.com/.
RBC helps communities prosper, supporting a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. For more information please see: http://www.rbc.com/community-sustainability/.
SOURCE RBC
Investors: Stephanie Phillips, Investor Relations, 416-955-7809, [email protected]; Media: Sandra Nunes, Financial Communications, 416-974-1794, [email protected]
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