Company: GLU-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001133228-25-002915
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Company: GABELLI GLOBAL UTILITY & INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
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 the attributes or skills common
to all Trustees are their ability to review critically and to evaluate, question, and discuss information provided to them, to interact
effectively with the other Trustees, the Adviser, the sub-administrator, other service providers, counsel, and the Fund’s independent
registered public accounting firm, and to exercise effective and independent business judgment in the performance of their duties as
Trustees. Each Trustee’s ability to perform his or her duties effectively has been attained in large part through the Trustee’s
business, consulting, or public service positions and through experience from service as a member of the Board and one or more of the
other funds in the Fund Complex, public companies, non-profit entities, or other organizations as set forth above and below. Each Trustee’s
ability to perform his or her duties effectively also has been enhanced by education, professional training, and other experience.

Independent Trustees/Nominees

Calgary Avansino.Ms. Avansino was CEO of Glamcam from 2018-2020, a social commerce app focusing on the Gen Z market. She also began serving
on the Boards of Trustees of the Cate School in 2017 and the E.L. Wiegand Foundation in 2018, and is a member of the Common Sense Media
Advisory Council beginning in 2019. Previously, beginning in 2014, she was a Contributing Vogue Editor in order to launch her eponymous
wellness company, and in 2016, she published the nutrition book entitled Keep It Real, launched a website, and was a prolific
public speaker on wellness trends. From 2009-2013, Ms. Avansino was Executive Fashion Director and Digital Project Director at British
Vogue. Ms. Avansino is a graduate of Cate Preparatory School ’93 and Georgetown University ’98, with a major in English Literature
and a minor in Women’s Studies.

James P. Conn.Mr. Conn is the Lead Independent Trustee of the Fund and a member of the Fund’s ad hocProxy Voting and ad hocPricing Committees. He serves on comparable or other board committees with respect to other funds in the Fund Complex on whose
boards he sits. He was a senior business executive of Transamerica Corp., an insurance holding company, for much of his career, including
service as Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Conn has been a director of several public companies in banking and other industries, and was