CIBC Announces Election of Directors

TORONTO, April 23, 2015 /CNW/ - CIBC (TSX: CM) (NYSE: CM) announced today that the nominees listed in its Management Proxy Circular dated February 26, 2015 were elected as Directors of CIBC. Detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held earlier today in Calgary at CIBC's Annual Meeting of Shareholders are as follows.

Election of directors

On a vote by ballot, each of the following 15 nominees proposed by management was elected as a Director of CIBC:

Nominees	Votes FOR		Votes AGAINST
B. S. Belzberg	190,355,626	97.40%	5,091,095	2.60%
G. F. Colter	190,756,694	97.60%	4,690,027	2.40%
P. D. Daniel	190,640,921	97.54%	4,805,800	2.46%
L. Desjardins	168,757,765	86.34%	26,688,956	13.66%
V. G. Dodig	194,813,820	99.68%	632,701	0.32%
G. D. Giffin	180,539,840	92.37%	14,906,881	7.63%
L. S. Hasenfratz	166,173,869	85.02%	29,272,852	14.98%
K. J. Kelly	195,045,010	99.79%	401,711	0.21%
N. D. Le Pan	194,278,789	99.40%	1,167,932	0.60%
J. P. Manley	192,718,620	98.60%	2,728,101	1.40%
J. L. Peverett	193,332,658	98.92%	2,114,063	1.08%
K. B. Stevenson	194,022,127	99.27%	1,424,594	0.73%
M. Turcotte	194,067,396	99.29%	1,379,325	0.71%
R. W. Tysoe	191,637,988	98.05%	3,808,733	1.95%
B. L. Zubrow	194,881,297	99.71%	565,424	0.29%

About CIBC

CIBC is a leading Canadian-based global financial institution with nearly 11 million personal banking and business clients. Through our three major business units - Retail and Business Banking, Wealth Management and Wholesale Banking CIBC offers a full range of products and services through its comprehensive electronic banking network, branches and offices across Canada with offices in the United States and around the world. You can find other news releases and information about CIBC in our Media Centre on our corporate website at www.cibc.com. 

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