0001193125-19-184463.txt : 20190627 0001193125-19-184463.hdr.sgml : 20190627 20190627171402 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-19-184463 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20190625 ITEM INFORMATION: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders FILED AS OF DATE: 20190627 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20190627 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PEGASYSTEMS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001013857 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-COMPUTER PROCESSING & DATA PREPARATION [7374] IRS NUMBER: 042787865 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-11859 FILM NUMBER: 19926264 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE ROGERS STREET CITY: CAMBRIDGE STATE: MA ZIP: 02142-1209 BUSINESS PHONE: 6173749600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE ROGERS STREET CITY: CAMBRIDGE STATE: MA ZIP: 02142-1209 8-K 1 d771499d8k.htm 8-K 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Form 8-K

 

 

Current Report

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 25, 2019

 

 

Pegasystems Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Commission File Number: 1-11859

 

Massachusetts   04-2787865

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

One Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

617-374-9600

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

☐

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

☐

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

☐

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

☐

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

  

Trading

Symbol(s)

  

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common Stock, $.01 par value per share   PEGA   NASDAQ Global Select Market

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company  ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the Registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

 

 

 

Item 5.07.

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

The 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Pegasystems Inc. (the “Company”) was held on June 25, 2019. At the Annual Meeting, the following items were presented to the stockholders of the Company for their approval, and approved by the indicated votes:

1. To elect the nine nominees named in the Company’s definitive proxy statement to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors until its 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Each nominee for director was elected by a vote of stockholders as follows:

 

    Peter
Gyenes		     Ronald
Hovsepian		     Richard
Jones		     Christopher
Lafond		     Dianne
Ledingham		     James
O’Halloran		     Sharon
Rowlands		     Alan
Trefler		     Larry
Weber		  

FOR

     72,088,545       72,225,680       71,947,040       72,225,404       72,102,333       71,469,476       71,584,007       71,571,333       71,981,587  

AGAINST

     277,458       140,400       420,020       140,428       264,918       898,562       783,303       773,025       385,315  

ABSTAIN

     22,068       21,991       21,011       22,239       20,820       20,033       20,761       43,713       21,169  

NON VOTES

     4,565,329       4,565,329       4,565,329       4,565,329       4,565,329       4,565,329       4,565,329       4,565,329       4,565,329  

2. To approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers. The compensation of the Company’s named executive officers was approved on a non-binding advisory basis by a vote of stockholders as follows:

 

     Executive
Compensation		  

FOR

      71,636,654  

AGAINST

      197,147  

ABSTAIN

      554,270  

NON VOTES

      4,565,329  

3. To ratify the selection by the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2019. The proposal was approved by a vote of stockholders as follows:

 

     Auditors  

FOR

      76,693,474  

AGAINST

      238,775  

ABSTAIN

      21,151  

Signature(s)

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.

 

      Pegasystems Inc.
Date: June 27, 2019      
    By:  

/s/ Matthew J. Cushing

      Matthew J. Cushing
      Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer, General Counsel and Secretary