Scotiabank Announces Election of Directors

TORONTO, April 9, 2019 /CNW/ - Scotiabank announced that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated February 5, 2019 were elected as directors of the Bank. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at its Annual Meeting of Shareholders earlier today in Toronto, Ontario are set out below.

Election of Directors

On a vote by ballot, each of the following 14 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of the Bank:

Nominee	Votes For	% For	Votes Withheld	% Withheld
Nora A. Aufreiter	698,185,508	99.64%	2,514,119	0.36%
Guillermo E. Babatz	686,525,945	97.98%	14,173,682	2.02%
Scott B. Bonham	688,030,368	98.19%	12,669,259	1.81%
Charles H. Dallara	687,919,645	98.18%	12,778,355	1.82%
Tiff Macklem	698,411,579	99.67%	2,288,048	0.33%
Michael D. Penner	698,919,520	99.75%	1,780,107	0.25%
Brian J. Porter	698,261,736	99.65%	2,438,426	0.35%
Una M. Power	696,842,585	99.45%	3,857,577	0.55%
Aaron W. Regent	686,459,633	97.97%	14,239,994	2.03%
Indira V. Samarasekera	684,734,445	97.72%	15,965,717	2.28%
Susan L. Segal	697,884,827	99.60%	2,815,335	0.40%
Barbara S. Thomas	687,342,515	98.09%	13,357,647	1.91%
L. Scott Thomson	679,524,365	96.98%	21,175,262	3.02%
Benita M. Warmbold	687,474,537	98.11%	13,225,625	1.89%

 

Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held earlier today will be published shortly on www.scotiabank.com, and filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

About Scotiabank

Scotiabank is Canada's international bank and a leading financial services provider in the Americas. We are dedicated to helping our more than 25 million customers become better off through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 98,000 employees and assets of over $1 trillion (as at January 31, 2019), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: BNS) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BNS). For more information, please visit www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankViews.

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