Company: NGVT
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000061
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Company: Ingevity Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: PREC14A
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 then your shares may not be voted on any of Proposals 1, 2, 3 or 4. We urge you to instruct your broker about how you wish your shares to be voted using the WHITE voting instruction form. |

Who counts the votes? We hired Innisfree M&A Incorporated to count the votes represented by proxies and cast by ballot, and appointed First Coast Results, Inc. to act as Inspector of Election. What happens if Vision One withdraws or abandons its solicitation or fails to comply with the universal proxy rules and I already granted proxy authority in favor of Vision One and its control slate? If Vision One withdraws or abandons its solicitation or fails to comply with the universal proxy rules, any votes cast in favor of Vision One’s director nominees will be disregarded and not be counted, whether such vote is provided on the Company’s WHITEproxy card or Vision One’s [•]proxy card. Stockholders are encouraged to submit their votes on the WHITEproxy card or WHITEvoting instruction form. If Vision One

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 Proxy Statement   |

Questions and Answers About the Annual Meeting, Proxy Solicitation, and Voting Information withdraws or abandons its solicitation or fails to comply with the universal proxy rules after a stockholder has already granted proxy authority, stockholders can still sign and date a later submitted WHITEproxy card or WHITEvoting instruction form. Will there be any other matters of business addressed at the Annual Meeting? As of the date of this Proxy Statement, we are not aware of any other matter that will be properly brought before the Annual Meeting. If other matters are properly introduced, the persons named in the proxy as the proxy holders will vote on such matters in their discretion using their best judgment. What is the effect of abstentions? Abstentions will have no effect on the election of directors (Proposal 1). For each of the other proposals (Proposals 2, 3 and 4), abstentions will be treated as shares present and entitled to vote for quorum purposes, but they will have the same practical effect as votes against the proposal because they require approval by the majority of the shares present. What is the effect of broker non-votes? A “broker non-vote” occurs when a broker lacks discretionary authority to vote on a “non-routine” proposal and a beneficial owner fails to give the broker voting instructions on that matter. The rules of the NYSE determine whether matters presented