EX-99.1 2 exh991-agmsep2017votingres.htm EXHIBIT 99.1 Exhibit
Exhibit 99.1

OpenText Announces Voting Results for Election of Directors
WATERLOO, Ontario, September 21, 2017/CNW/ -- Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX), confirmed today that the ten nominees listed in its management proxy circular dated August 15, 2017 were elected as its directors. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors at its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the “Meeting”) held earlier today in Waterloo, Ontario are set out below. Shareholders holding 215,819,358 common shares representing 81.36% 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
204,679,276

97.50
%
5,243,017

2.50
%
Mark Barrenechea
208,439,686

99.29
%
1,482,607

0.71
%
Randy Fowlie
204,560,383

97.45
%
5,361,910

2.55
%
Gail E. Hamilton
209,509,589

99.80
%
412,704

0.20
%
Brian J. Jackman
203,796,245

97.08
%
6,126,048

2.92
%
Stephen J. Sadler
205,344,464

97.82
%
4,577,829

2.18
%
Michael Slaunwhite
198,917,547

94.76
%
11,004,746

5.24
%
Katharine B. Stevenson
206,797,934

98.51
%
3,124,359

1.49
%
Carl Jürgen Tinggren
209,815,191

99.95
%
107,102

0.05
%
Deborah Weinstein
182,278,745

86.83
%
27,643,548

13.17
%
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 21, 2017.
About OpenText
OpenText enables the digital world, creating a better way for organizations to work with information, on premises or in the cloud. For more information about OpenText please visit www.opentext.com.
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For more information, please contact
Greg Secord
Vice President, Investor Relations
Open Text Corporation
San Francisco: (415) 963-0825
investors@opentext.com