EX-99.1 5 exh991-agmvotingresults.htm EXHIBIT 99.1 Exh 99.1 - AGM Voting Results

Exhibit 99.1

OpenText Announces Voting Results for Election of Directors

Waterloo, Ontario - 2013-09-26 - - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX: OTC), confirmed today that the nine nominees listed in its management proxy circular dated August 16, 2013 were elected as its directors. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors at its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the “Meeting”) held earlier today in Waterloo, Ontario are set out below. Shareholders holding 59,071,165 common shares representing 86.23% of the outstanding common shares were present in person or by proxy at the Meeting.
On a vote by ballot, each of the following nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of OpenText:
 
Votes For
 
Votes Withheld
P. Thomas Jenkins
47,964,671

96.43
%
 
1,776,573

3.57
%
Mark Barrenechea
49,024,217

98.56
%
 
717,027

1.44
%
Randy Fowlie
48,689,789

97.89
%
 
1,051,455

2.11
%
Gail E. Hamilton
49,591,568

99.70
%
 
149,676

0.30
%
Brian J. Jackman
49,056,917

98.62
%
 
684,327

1.38
%
Stephen J. Sadler
43,355,832

87.16
%
 
6,385,412

12.84
%
Michael Slaunwhite
48,425,629

97.36
%
 
1,315,615

2.64
%
Katharine B. Stevenson
49,552,982

99.62
%
 
188,262

0.38
%
Deborah Weinstein
49,050,439

98.61
%
 
690,805

1.39
%
The results of other matters considered at the Meeting are reported in the Report of Voting Results as filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and OpenText’s Form 8-K as filed on EDGAR (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), each of which was filed on September 26, 2013.
About OpenText
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For more information, please contact
United States:
Greg Secord



Vice President, Investor Relations
Open Text Corporation
San Francisco: (415) 963-0825
gsecord@opentext.com
Canada:
Sonya Mehan
Senior Manager, Investor Relations
Open Text Corporation
Waterloo: 519-888-7111 Ext. 2446
smehan@opentext.com