Company: WRBY
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-040245
Chunk: 9

Company: Warby Parker Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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otes will have no effect.   | ​ | ​ |
| ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 2: RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM                       | ​ | ​ | ​ | The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the votes cast.                                                                                              | ​ | ​ | ​ | Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect.      | ​ | ​ |
| ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 3: APPROVAL, ON AN ADVISORY (NON-BINDING) BASIS, OF THE COMPENSATION OF OUR NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. | ​ | ​ | ​ | The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the votes cast.                                                                                              | ​ | ​ | ​ | Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect.      | ​ | ​ |

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TABLE OF CONTENTS WHAT ARE VOTES WITHHELD AND ABSTENTIONS AND HOW DO THEY COUNT FOR DETERMINING A QUORUM? A “vote withheld,” in the case of the proposal regarding the election of directors, or an “abstention,” in the case of the proposal regarding the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm and the proposal regarding the approval, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers, represents a stockholder’s affirmative choice to decline to vote on a proposal. Votes withheld and abstentions are counted as present and entitled to vote for purposes of determining a quorum. WHAT ARE BROKER NON-VOTES AND DO THEY COUNT FOR DETERMINING A QUORUM? Generally, broker non-votes occur when shares held by a broker in “street name” for a beneficial owner are not voted with respect to a particular proposal because the broker (1) has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner and (2) lacks discretionary voting power to vote those shares. A broker is entitled to vote shares held for a beneficial owner on routine matters, such as the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm, without instructions from the beneficial owner of those shares. On the other hand, the proposals regarding the election of directors and the approval, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers, are non-routine matters and, absent instructions from the beneficial owner of such shares, a broker is not entitled to vote shares held