Company: VEEV
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-017353
Chunk: 76

Company: VEEVA SYSTEMS INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 76
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 the votes cast “AGAINST” the proposal, the proposal will pass. You may vote “FOR,” “AGAINST,” or “ABSTAIN” on this proposal. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of this proposal.

| Q: | How does the Board recommend that I vote? |

| A: | Our Board unanimously recommends that you vote your shares: |

| • | “FOR” each nominee for election as director listed in Proposal One; and |

| Q: | What happens if I do not give specific voting instructions? |

| A: | Shareholders of record— If you are a shareholder of record and you: |

| • | Indicate when voting on the Internet or by telephone that you wish to vote as recommended by our Board; or |

| • | Sign and return a proxy card without giving specific voting instructions, then the persons named as proxy holders will vote your shares in the manner recommended by the Board on all matters presented in this Proxy Statement and as the proxy holders may determine in their discretion with respect to any other matters properly presented for a vote at the Annual Meeting. |

Beneficial owners — If you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name and do not provide the organization that holds your shares with specific voting instructions, then, under applicable rules, the organization that holds your shares may generally vote on “routine” matters but cannot vote on “non-routine” matters. If the organization that holds your shares does not receive instructions from you on how to vote your shares on a non-routine matter, that organization will inform the inspector of election that it does not have the authority to vote on this matter with respect to your shares. This is generally referred to as a “broker non-vote.”

| Q: | How may my brokerage firm or other intermediary vote my shares if I fail to provide timely directions? |

| A: | Brokerage firms and other intermediaries holding shares of common stock in street name for customers are generally required to vote such shares in the manner directed by their customers. In the absence of timely directions, your broker will have discretion to vote your shares on our sole routine matter: the proposal to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP. Your broker will not have discretion absent direction from you to vote on the election of directors, a “non-routine” matter. |

Please note that brokers may not vote your shares on non-routine matters in the absence of your specific instructions as to how to vote, so we encourage you