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Item 5.07 | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. | |||||||
On May 8, 2025, Ecovyst Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”). There were 117,385,510 shares of the Company’s common stock issued and outstanding on the record date and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, and 111,824,964 shares of the Company’s common stock were represented in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting. Set forth below are the final voting results for each of the proposals submitted to a vote of the Company’s stockholders at the Annual Meeting. For more information about the proposals, please see the Company’s definitive proxy statement, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 8, 2025. | ||||||||
Proposal One: Each of the two Class III director nominees was elected to serve on the Company’s board of directors for a term of one year. The results of the vote were as follows: | ||||||||
Nominee | Votes For | Votes Withheld | Broker Non-Votes | |||||||||||||||||
Susan F. Ward | 97,429,906 | 8,410,838 | 5,984,220 | |||||||||||||||||
Bryan K. Brown | 101,577,728 | 4,263,016 | 5,984,220 |
Proposal Two: The stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation paid by the Company to its named executive officers (the “say-on-pay proposal”). The results of the advisory vote were as follows: |
For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes | |||||||||||||||||
102,933,366 | 2,898,129 | 9,249 | 5,984,220 |
Proposal Three: The appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 was ratified. The results of the vote were as follows: |
For | Against | Abstain | ||||||||||||
109,907,954 | 1,750,016 | 166,994 |
Proposal three was a routine matter and, therefore, there were no broker non-votes relating to this proposal. |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. | |||||||||||
Ecovyst Inc. | |||||||||||
Date: | May 9, 2025 | By: | /s/ JOSEPH S. KOSCINSKI | ||||||||
Name: | Joseph S. Koscinski | ||||||||||
Title: | Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary |