Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Data

The Company held its annual meeting of shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. At the close of business on April 11, 2022, the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting (the “Record Date”), there were 521,171,196 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. A total of 481,380,408 shares of Class A Common Stock were present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting, representing approximately 92% of the Company’s outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock as of the Record Date.


The following are the voting results on the four proposals considered and voted upon at the Annual Meeting, all of which were described in the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2022.


At the Annual Meeting, all of the directors were re-elected, Proposals 2 and 3 were approved and Proposal 4 was not approved.


Proposal 1. Election of Directors


The vote with respect to the election of directors was as follows:



Proposal 2. Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation (Say-on-Pay)


The advisory vote on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers was as follows:



Proposal 3. Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm


The vote with respect to the ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2022 was as follows:



Proposal 4. Shareholder Proposal Regarding Shareholder Meeting Enhancement


The vote with respect to the shareholder proposal requesting that the board of directors take action as necessary to to amend the Company's special shareholder meeting rights was as follows: