1001 Bishop Street, Suite 2900, Honolulu, Hawaii96813 - Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (HEI)
1001 Bishop Street, Suite 2500, Honolulu, Hawaii96813 - Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (Hawaiian Electric)
(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:
(808) 543-5662 - HEI
(808) 543-7771 - Hawaiian Electric
Not applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
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Securities registered pursuant to 12(b) of the Act:
Registrant
Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc.
Common Stock, Without Par Value
HE
New York Stock Exchange
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Item 5.07 Submission of matters to a vote of security holders
HEI: The Annual Meeting of Shareholders (Annual Meeting) of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (HEI) was held on May 7, 2021. Proxies for the meeting were solicited pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. As of March 1, 2021, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were 109,281,216 shares of HEI Common Stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote. There was no solicitation in opposition to the nominees to the Board of Directors, as listed in the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting, and all such nominees were elected to the Board of Directors. Shareholders also (1) approved, on an advisory basis, a resolution approving the compensation of HEI's named executive officers, and (2) ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche, LLP as HEI's independent registered public accounting firm for 2021.
The final record of the voting of shares at the Annual Meeting is as follows:
Shares of Common Stock
For
Against
Abstain
Broker Non-Vote
Election of Directors
Richard J. Dahl
80,844,657
2,271,682
694,810
14,405,117
Micah A. Kane
72,797,099
10,300,449
713,601
14,405,117
Constance H. Lau
82,186,300
1,145,290
479,559
14,405,117
Advisory vote on resolution approving the compensation of HEI's named executive officers
78,812,926
3,704,888
1,293,335
14,405,117
Ratification of appointment of Deloitte & Touche, LLP as HEl's independent registered public accounting firm for 2021
96,799,361
521,705
895,200
0
Directors Celeste A. Connors, Thomas B. Fargo, Mary G. Powell, and William James Scilacci, Jr., continue in office with terms ending at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Directors Peggy Y. Fowler, Keith P. Russell and Eva T. Zlotnicka continue in office with terms ending at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
Hawaiian Electric: On May 7, 2021, HEI, the sole common shareholder of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (Hawaiian Electric), by written consent in lieu of an annual meeting of shareholders (1) fixed the number of Hawaiian Electric directors at seven, (2) elected James A. Ajello, Kevin M. Burke, Timothy E. Johns (Chairman), Alana E. K. Pakkala, Scott W.H. Seu, Kelvin H. Taketa and Toby B. Taniguchi to serve as directors until the next annual meeting of Hawaiian Electric shareholders, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified and (3) ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche, LLP as Hawaiian Electric's independent registered accounting firm for 2021.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized. The signature of the undersigned companies shall be deemed to relate only to matters having reference to such companies and any subsidiaries thereof.