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Leading company boards will report in proxy filings for 2020 how they are responding to what they heard from shareholders in conversations the companies requested after the previous year’s filings.

These companies will have solicited investors representing as much as 80% of their shares with an offer to make independent directors available. Management may be on the calls and may provide a brief summary to open the conversation, but when an independent director is asked to be on the call, the investor wants to hear directly from a director, not management.

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