AGM 2021

May 13, 2021

Hello and welcome to the twenty twenty one Annual Meeting of Stockholders of GrafTech International Limited. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. During the meeting we'll have a question and answer session. You can submit questions or comments at any time by clicking on the message icon. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Mr. Dennis Turcotte, Chairman of the Board of Directors of GrafTech International Limited. Mr. Turcotte, the floor is yours. Thank you, operator. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Dennis Turcotte, and I'm the Non Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of GrafTech International Limited. I will act as Chairman of the meeting. I would like to welcome you to the twenty twenty one Annual Meeting of Stockholders of GrafTech International Limited. In light of the COVID-nineteen pandemic and in the interest of protecting the health and safety of our stockholders and employees, the Board of Directors determined the annual meeting would be held in a virtual format via the Internet. I call your attention to the rules of conduct set forth for this meeting. These were made available to each stockholder in the Files section in the lower left of the screen. If you need a copy of the annual report or the proxy statement, the links are provided online. Stockholders may submit questions online at any time during this meeting in the space provided on the virtual meeting screen by clicking on the dialogue icon in the upper right corner of meeting center screen. During the annual meeting, questions from stockholders should pertain to the proposals being considered at that particular time. Stockholders wishing to ask other questions will be given an opportunity to do so following the meeting. Questions on a similar topic may be addressed with a single answer. After introducing the directors and officers in attendance, and dealing with a few procedural matters, we will take up the items to be acted upon. First, allow me to introduce the members of our Board of Directors, all of whom are in attendance at the meeting. Brian Acton, President of PAC Basin Resources, Sierra Minerals and PX Carbon. Katherine Clegg, former Vice President, Workforce Strategy, Global Human Resources, General Motors. Michelle Duma, former Executive Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Pembek Inc. Leslie Dunn, former Senior Vice President of Business Development and General Counsel of Coal National Corporation. Jeff Dutton, Managing Director of Business Operations in the Private Equity Group of Brookfield Asset Management. David Gregory, Managing Partner of Investments in the Private Equity Group of Brookfield Asset Management. Dave Rintoul, Chief Executive Officer and President of GrafTech International and Anthony Takone, founding partner and co owner of First River LLC. Would now like to invite Mr. David Rintoul to introduce his senior management team. Thank you, Dennis, and good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's with great pleasure that I would like to introduce our senior management team, all of whom are in attendance at this meeting: Quinn Coburn, Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Finance and Treasurer Jeremy Helford, Senior Vice President Operations and Development Anigal Perez, Senior Vice President Commercial Brian Blows, Vice President Organizational Development Administration Jessica Johnson, Vice President, Human Resources Janis Karluskine, Vice President, Technology and Customer Technical Services and Gina Gunning, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary. Thanks, Dave. Also present at this meeting are representatives of the corporation's independent registered public accounting firm, Deloitte and Touche LLP, represented by Mr. Tracy Vai, and Ms. Nicolette Chasm. Although the Deloitte representatives have indicated they do not wish to make a statement, they are available to respond to appropriate questions during the general question period. So now on to the formal proceedings. Turn to the formal proceedings of today's meeting, which are governed by Delaware law, and are amended and restated bylaws. The agenda of this meeting is included in the notice of annual meeting sent to the stockholders with the proxy statement and annual report. The corporate secretary has advised me that she is in possession of the affidavit of mailing, which states that the notice of meeting and accompanying proxy materials, including the proxy statement and the annual report, were mailed commencing on April eighth of this year to all stockholders of record on 03/16/2021. The affidavit will be filed with the meeting minutes. A list of stockholders on the record date is also available at this meeting for review in the virtual meeting portal. The corporation has appointed Computershare Trust Company to act as inspector of election, represented here today by Tammy Marshall. I have received the preliminary certificate of the inspector to the effect that there are one or more stockholders present in person, or represented by proxy, or by voting instructions entitled to cast in the aggregate, at least the majority of the votes attaching to the 267,235,189 outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at this meeting. Consequently, there is a quorum present in accordance with the amended and restated bylaws of the corporation, and the annual meeting is properly constituted for the transaction of the business for which it has been called. We'll now turn to the items on the agenda, which are proposal one, the election of three members of our board of directors for a three year term or until their successors are elected and qualified. Proposal two, the ratification of the selection of Deloitte and Touche as the corporation's independent registered public accounting firm for the twenty twenty one fiscal year. And proposal three, the approval on an advisory basis of our named executive officer compensation. The inspector of election has already received the ballot with respect to the proxies solicited by the Board of Directors. If any stockholder in attendance wishes to vote their shares, you may cast your vote online via the virtual meeting system. We'll now vote on these items. If you have not voted, or wish to change your vote, you may do so now by clicking on the link provided online. Any stockholder who has already voted and does not want to change their vote need not take any further action. Polls will remain open for about another minute, and then the computer share representative will close the online voting system. We'll now pause for a minute. The online voting will now be closed. The inspector has advised me that based on preliminary review of the vote cast, each of the three director nominees were duly elected, and that proposals to and received the majority of the voting power of the shares present in person, or by proxy at the meeting, and entitled to vote thereon. The Corporate Secretary will record the exact vote count for all proposals in the minutes. The final results will be disclosed in a Form eight ks to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on before May 19. Ladies and gentlemen, I now declare the formal portion of the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of GrafTech International Limited adjourned. We will proceed now to the question period. I invite any stockholder or stockholder proxy to ask a question. If you wish to ask a question, please submit your question in the space provided on the virtual meeting screen, by clicking on the dialogue icon in the upper right corner of meeting center screen. Your question must include your name, and whether you are a stockholder or a proxy. If you are acting as a proxy, please also name the stockholder you represent. I would ask you to be brief in your questions in order to allow all those who wish to do so to participate. We will allow a maximum of three minutes for addressing each question or comment. Questions should be addressed to me, the CEO, or the CFO who are on the line. At this time we would like to take any questions that you might have for us today. To ask a question click on the message icon to submit your question or comment. No questions have been submitted at this point. Mr. Turcotte, I turn it back over to you. Thanks Gina. As there are no questions, I want to thank all of our stockholders for their continuing support. This concludes the presentation. You may now disconnect. Thank you operator.