Tokyo — June 27, 2022 — Asteria Corporation (Japan listed, Security Code: 3853) hereby announces that the following resolution regarding the appointment of the members of the Board was passed at its 24th Annual Shareholders Meeting and a meeting of Board of Directors held on June 25, 2022. We also announce the voting results of the shareholders meeting, which was held in a virtual only format without a designated physical venue (hereinafter “a virtual-only meeting of shareholders”) using blockchain technology, as listed below.
1．The Board members from June 25, 2022 onwards
Title
Name
Position in the Company
Directors
Yoichiro Hirano
President/ CEO
Yoshiyuki Kitahara
Executive Vice President/ CTO
Hirofumi Gomi
Outside Director
Anis Uzzaman
Outside Director
Mariko Tokioka
Outside Director
Audit & Supervisory Board Members
Yoshiharu Takano
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Kazuya Akamatsu
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Akira Nagasaki
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
2．The results of Asteria’s blockchain-based voting system
Category
Early voting (Opened through 5:30 p.m. on June 24）
Voting on the day of the Shareholders Meeting (Opened from 10 a.m. on June 25)
The number of questions received for the meeting
16
7
The ratio by the number of voting rights exercised
Blockchain ：51%
Blockchain：100% (Main-in ballots were accepted until June 24）
Mail-in ballot：49%
The ratio by the number of voters
Blockchain ：41％
Blockchain：100% (Main-in ballots were accepted until June 24）
Mail-in ballot：59%
Asteria’s Annual Shareholders Meeting was live streamed on June 25.
The 24th Annual Shareholders Meeting was held in a virtual-only format using our unique blockchain-based system which allows shareholders to exercise their voting rights, ask questions and table motions.
Fifty-four percent of the shareholders exercised their voting rights via the blockchain voting system, higher than the percentage for mail-in ballots.
As a pioneer in the introduction of virtual-only meetings of shareholders, Asteria will continue to encourage the implementation of advanced shareholders meetings.
[Reference data: The overview of the 24th Annual Shareholders Meeting]
Date and Time
From 10:30 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. on June 25, 2022 (Saturday)
Duration
70 minutes
The total number of questions received
23
The number of voting rights
93,623 (about 60%)
The ratio by the number of voting rights exercised
Voting via blockchain-based system：54％ Mail-in ballot：46％
The ratio by the number of voters
Voting via blockchain-based system：41％ Mail-in ballot：59%
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