AGM 2021

Jun 3, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Workiva Inc. Please note this meeting is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to David Mokay, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company. Mr. Mokay, the floor is yours. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It is my pleasure We are pleased to be holding our Annual Meeting in a virtual format this year. It is 10 o'clock and at this Welcome again to the 7th Annual Meeting of Workiva Inc. I am Brandon Ziegler, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal We will first conduct a formal business. Following that, there will be an opportunity for questions at the end of the meeting. The principal business on today's meeting is, 1st, to elect 2 Class 1 directors to our Board of Directors To serve 3 year terms expiring at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. 2nd, To approve on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers and third, to ratify the appointment of Ernst and Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. As our bylaws provide, Mr. Hall Kaye will act as Chairman of the meeting and I will act as secretary of the meeting. Before we move to official business, I would like to ask Mr. Mokay to introduce Thanks, Brandon. Joining us today are Bridget Bonner, Michael Crow, Robert Hertz, Julie Iskow, Suku Radhya and Marty Vander In addition, a number of our company's officers are participating in the meeting today. I would also like to introduce Kimberly who is a partner with Ernst and Young LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm. Ms. Gillespie will have an opportunity At this time, I would I'd like to call on Mr. Ziegler to explain our process for distributing proxy materials. Thanks, Dave. As permitted under SEC rules, we set the notice of Internet availability of proxy materials, each stockholder of record as of April The notice of Internet availability contained instructions on how stockholders could access our proxy materials via the Internet I have a copy of an affidavit of mailing from Computershare Communications Services Inc, our mailing As of the record date April 5, 2021. This affidavit will be filed within minutes of the meeting. Computershare Trust Company, NA, The company's transfer agent and registrar and an affiliate of Computershare Inc. Has been appointed to act as the Inspector of Election for the meeting and any adjournment or postponement of Fred Papenmaier, as a representative of Computershare, has signed an oath to act as Inspector And this oath will be filed and submitted to the meeting. If there is any person present holding a proxy that has not yet submitted it to VoIP, please submit it now as of April 5, 2021, the record date for the meeting, which shows the stockholders and their respective number of shares entitled to vote at this meeting. A duplicate record is available for inspection by any stockholder upon request. This list is also available at this meeting if any stockholder wishes to examine At this time, I would like to call in Mr. Ziegler Mr. Chairman, there were 42,000,001 And 7,824,610 shares of our Class B common stock outstanding and entitled to vote on April 5, 2020 Each share of Class A common stock is entitled to 1 vote and each share of Class B common stock is entitled to 10 votes. At least 37,766,473 shares of our Class A common stock and at least 7,000,000 9.94 shares of our Class B common stock or 89.55 percent of the total outstanding voting power Are represented in person or by proxy at this meeting. Since a majority in voting power of the shares of our common stock issued an outstanding Ziegler has advised us that a quorum is present at this meeting, so I declare the meeting dually and lawfully convened. The meeting is now open and ready for business. I declare the polls open to vote on the motions to be presented. If you have not turned in a proxy or instead wish Now please submit your ballot via the virtual platform. Mr. Ziegler, were there any stockholder nominations No stockholder nominations or proposals were properly filed in advance of this meeting. The business of the meeting is limited to the 3 proposals The first item of business is the election of directors. As stated in our proxy, Robert Hertz And David Mulcay are currently directors and have been nominated for reelections Class 1 directors to serve 3 year The Board of Directors recommends a vote for the election of Mr. Hertz and Mr. Mulcay as Class 1 directors. Since no other nominations for directors have I declare the nominations closed, and we will proceed with the voting. A motion to elect Mr. Hertz and Mr. Mulcay is now I hereby move that Mr. Hers and Mr. Mulcay be elected as Class 1 Directors to Does anyone second the motion? I second the motion. The next item of business is to approve on an Directors recommends a vote of 4 this proposal. A motion to approve the compensation of our named executive officers is I hereby move that the compensation of our named executive officers as described in the company's proxy be approved. Does anyone second the motion? I second the motion. The next item of business is to ratify the appointment of Ernst and L. L. P, our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. The Board of I hereby move that the appointment of Ernst and Young LLP as Does anyone second the motion? I second the motion. Are there any questions or comments on I understand that the votes have been I will now ask Mr. Ziegler to share the Inspector of Elections report of the results of the voting. Mr. Herz and Mr. Mokay have been elected as Class 1 directors to serve 3 year terms expiring the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stock Each candidate is due to plurality of the votes cast at the meeting. The advisory proposal on named executive Compensation has been approved by a majority of the folks cast at the meeting. The ratification of the appointment of Ernst and Young LLP as our independent Public Accounting firm, the year ending December 31, 2021 has been approved by a majority of the votes cast at the meeting. I will file a final report of the Inspector of Election with the minutes of this meeting. This concludes the formal business At the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. A motion to adjourn the meeting is now in order. I hereby move to adjourn the The formal portion of the meeting is now adjourned. That concludes our formal meeting. We will now respond Seeing that there are no further questions, I will now conclude our Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Thank you all for participating in today's This concludes the meeting and you may now disconnect.