23 May 2024
Boku, Inc.
("Boku" or the "Company" and, together with its
subsidiaries, the "Group")
Result of Annual General
Meeting and Confirmation of Board Changes
Boku (AIM: BOKU),
a leading global provider of mobile payment
solutions, is pleased to announce that at
the Annual General Meeting of the Company ("AGM"), held yesterday,
all resolutions were passed. The results of the proxy voting for
the resolutions are set out in the table below.
Further to the announcement made on
1 February 2024, the Company confirms that Stewart Roberts retired
as a Non-executive Director of the Company at the AGM and that
Charlotta Ginman, Senior Independent Non-executive Director, has
now assumed the role of Chair of the Audit Committee and has become
a member of the Remuneration Committee.
Further to the announcement made on
1 May 2024, the Company also confirms that Keith Butcher stepped
down from the Board of Directors at the AGM. Recruitment of a new
Chief Financial Officer is in process and a further announcement
will be made in due course.
|
Resolution
|
In Favour
|
Against
|
Number of votes
withheld
|
|
Number of
votes
|
%
|
Number of
votes
|
%
|
|
1
|
Approve and adopt the amendment to the Amended
and Restated Certificate of Incorporation pursuant to the
Certificate of Amendment.
|
198,461,340
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0%
|
0
|
|
2
|
If Resolution No.1 is approved, approve and
adopt the amendment to the Amended and Restated Bylaws pursuant to
Amendment No.1 to Amended and Restated Bylaws
|
198,461,340
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0%
|
0
|
|
3
|
If Resolutions No.1 and No. 2 are
approved, election of the following as directors of the Company
until the 2025 annual general meeting of the Company.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Meriel Lenfestey
|
198,461,340
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0%
|
0
|
|
Charlotta Ginman
|
198,132,840
|
99.83%
|
328,500
|
0.17%
|
0
|
|
Keith Butcher
|
[resolution
withdrawn]
|
|
Richard Hargreaves
|
194,740,811
|
98.13%
|
3,720,529
|
1.87%
|
0
|
|
Stuart Neal
|
198,461,340
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0%
|
0
|
|
Jonathan Prideaux
|
198,461,340
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0%
|
0
|
|
Mark Britto
|
198,461,340
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0%
|
0
|
|
Loren I. Shuster
|
198,461,340
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0%
|
0
|
|
11
|
If Resolutions No.1 and No. 2 are
not approved, election of the following individuals as Class I
directors of the Company:
|
[resolution
withdrawn]
|
|
Meriel Lenfestey
|
[resolution
withdrawn]
|
|
Charlotta Ginman
|
[resolution
withdrawn]
|
|
Keith Butcher
|
[resolution
withdrawn]
|
|
14
|
Appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as
auditor of the Company.
|
198,461,340
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0%
|
0
|
|
15
|
Authorise the Company's Audit Committee to
determine PwC's remuneration.
|
198,461,340
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0%
|
0
|
|
16
|
Approve, on an advisory basis, the Directors'
Remuneration Report set out in the Annual Report for the year ended
31 December 2023
|
158,512,074
|
98.50%
|
2,406,833
|
1.5%
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Enquiries:
Boku, Inc.
Stuart Neal, Chief Executive Officer
+44 (0)20 3934
6630
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser & Joint
Broker)
+44 (0)20 7597 5970
Edward Knight / Nick Prowting /
Cameron MacRitchie
Peel Hunt LLP (Joint
Broker)
+44 (0)20 7418 8900
Paul Gillam / Adam
Telling
IFC
Advisory Limited (Financial PR &
IR)
+44 (0)20 3934
6630
Tim Metcalfe / Graham Herring /
Florence Chandler
Notes to Editors
Boku Inc. (AIM: BOKU) is a
leading global network of localised payment solutions. Boku's
mobile-first payments network, including digital wallets, direct
carrier billing, and A2A (account to account)/real-time payments
schemes, reaching over 7.5 billion mobile payment accounts through
a single integration.
Customers that trust Boku to
simplify sign-up, acquire new paying users and prevent fraud
include global leaders such as Amazon, Meta Platforms, Google,
Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify and Tencent.
Boku Inc. was incorporated in
2008 and is headquartered in London, UK, with offices in the
US, India, Brazil, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan and
Vietnam.
To learn more about Boku Inc.,
please visit: https://www.boku.com
