Resolutions of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of Sartorius AG
At today’s virtual Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting, shareholders granted discharge to the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board and approved the boards’ proposals by a large majority. They passed the resolution to pay dividends of 0.36 euros per preference share (previous year: 0.62 euros) and 0.35 euros per ordinary share (previous year: 0.61 euros). The total amount disbursed will be 24.3 million euros after 42.1 million euros in the previous year. The dividend will be paid out on July 1, 2020.
In addition, shareholders elected Prof. David Ebsworth as a shareholder representative to the Supervisory Board. Prof. Ebsworth has already been a member of the board since January 2020. He was appointed by court order after Dr. Guido Oelkers resigned from his position on the Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG at the end of 2019. Prof. Ebsworth has extensive expertise and many years of experience in managing and advising pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. For more than 19 years, he worked for Bayer, where he was most recently responsible for the global Pharmaceuticals Division. From 2002 onwards, he worked in management at various biopharmaceutical companies, including as CEO of Vifor Pharma and as Chairman of the Corporate Executive Committee of Galenica Group. Currently, he is the non-executive chairman of the Board of Directors of Verona Pharma.
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Presentation, recording and further information on the 2020 Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting
