Notice of Investor AB’s Annual General Meeting on May 3, 2023

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Investor AB (publ) summons to the Annual General Meeting (the “Meeting”) to be held on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. at China Teatern, Berzelii Park 9, Stockholm, Sweden. Registration for the Meeting will commence at 1:30 p.m. The “Investor Dialog” begins at 2:00 p.m. – a dialogue between Investor’s Chair of the Board, Jacob Wallenberg, Investor’s President, Johan Forssell, and our shareholders. The shareholders will also have the opportunity to exercise their voting rights by voting in advance prior to the Meeting.

The Meeting and the Investor Dialog can be followed online in accordance with the instructions under the heading Webcast of the Meeting. The President’s address will be available on Investor's website, www.investorab.com, after the Meeting.

Registration and notification
A shareholder who wishes to participate in the Meeting must be recorded as a shareholder in the share register prepared by Euroclear Sweden AB (“Euroclear”) concerning the circumstances on Monday, April 24, 2023.

In addition, the shareholder must notify its intention to participate in the Meeting:

  • A shareholder who wishes to participate in the Meeting by voting in advance must notify its intention to participate by casting its vote in advance in accordance with the instructions under the heading Voting in advance below so that the vote in advance is received by Euroclear no later than Wednesday, April 26, 2023.
  • A shareholder who wishes to participate in the Meeting at the meeting venue in person or by proxy must notify Investor of its intention to attend the Meeting no later than on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, on https://anmalan.vpc.se/euroclearproxy, or by calling +46 8 611 29 10 on workdays between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. or by writing to Investor AB, c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, SE-101 23 Stockholm, Sweden. Please state name, personal or organizational identification number, address, telephone number and number of attending assistants, if any.

To be entitled to participate in the Meeting a shareholder whose shares are registered in the name of a nominee must, in addition to providing notification of participation, register its shares in its own name so that the shareholder is recorded in the share register on Monday, April 24, 2023. Such registration may be temporary (so-called voting right registration) and is requested from the nominee in accordance with the nominee’s procedures and such time in advance as the nominee determines. Voting right registrations completed by the nominee not later than Wednesday, April 26, 2023 are taken into account when preparing the share register.

Please bring valid identification. No physical entrance admission cards will be sent out.

Voting in advance
A special form shall be used for voting in advance (so called postal voting). The form is available on Investor’s website, www.investorab.com. In the case of voting in advance only, no separate notification is required for the Meeting. The completed and signed voting form must be received by Euroclear (administering the forms on behalf of Investor AB) no later than Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The completed form may be sent by mail to Investor AB, c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, SE-101 23 Stockholm, Sweden, or by e-mail to GeneralMeetingService@euroclear.com. Shareholders may also cast their vote in advance electronically by verification with BankID via https://anmalan.vpc.se/euroclearproxy. The shareholder may not provide special instructions or conditions in the voting form. If so, the vote (i.e. the voting in advance in its entirety) is invalid. Further instructions and conditions are included in the form for voting in advance.

If a shareholder has voted in advance as well as has notified its participation to attend the Meeting at the meeting venue, the vote cast in advance is still valid to the extent that the shareholder does not participate in a voting procedure at the Meeting or otherwise withdraws the vote in advance. If the shareholder chooses to participate in a voting at the Meeting, the vote cast will replace the previously submitted vote in advance with regard to the relevant item on the agenda.

For questions, please contact Euroclear by telephone +46 8 611 29 10 (workdays between 9.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m.).

Proxies, etc.
If a shareholder submits its votes in advance by proxy, a written and dated power of attorney shall be enclosed to the form for voting in advance. If the shareholder is a legal entity, a registration certificate or a corresponding document shall be enclosed to the form.

If a shareholder is represented by proxy at the meeting venue, a written and dated power of attorney and registration certificate or a corresponding document for a legal entity are to be sent to Investor AB, c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, SE-101 23 Stockholm, Sweden, well in advance of the Meeting.

A form of a power of attorney can be found on Investor’s website, www.investorab.com.

Webcast of the Meeting
Shareholders as well as non-shareholders have the opportunity to follow the Meeting and the Investor Dialog online via a link that will be posted on Investor’s website, www.investorab.com. Notice of participation is not required to solely follow the webcast. It is not possible to exercise any voting rights or other shareholder rights via the webcast.

Agenda

1.       Election of the Chair of the Meeting.

2.       Drawing up and approval of the voting list.

3.       Approval of the agenda.

4.       Election of one or two persons to attest to the accuracy of the minutes.

5.       Determination of whether the Meeting has been duly convened.

6.       Presentation of the Parent Company’s annual report and the auditors’ report, as well as of the consolidated financial statements and the auditors’ report for the Investor Group.

7.       The President’s address.

8.       Resolutions regarding adoption of the income statement and the balance sheet for the Parent Company, as well as of the consolidated income statement and the consolidated balance sheet for the Investor Group.

9.       Presentation of the Board of Directors’ Remuneration Report for approval.

10.     Resolution regarding discharge from liability of the members of the Board of Directors and the President.

11.     Resolution regarding disposition of Investor’s earnings in accordance with the approved balance sheet and determination of record date for dividends.

12.     Decisions on:

A.       The number of members and deputy members of the Board of Directors who shall be appointed by the Meeting.

B.       The number of Auditors and deputy Auditors who shall be appointed by the Meeting.

13.     Decisions on:

A.       The compensation that shall be paid to the Board of Directors.

B.       The compensation that shall be paid to the Auditors.

14.     Election of members and deputy members of the Board of Directors.

Proposal from the Nomination Committee:

A.      Gunnar Brock, re-election

B.      Johan Forssell, re-election

C.      Magdalena Gerger, re-election

D.      Tom Johnstone, CBE, re-election

E.      Isabelle Kocher, re-election

F.       Sven Nyman, re-election

G.      Grace Reksten Skaugen, re-election

H.      Hans Stråberg, re-election

I.        Jacob Wallenberg, re-election

J.       Marcus Wallenberg, re-election

K.      Sara Öhrvall, re-election

15.     Election of Chair of the Board of Directors.

          Proposal from the Nomination Committee:

          Jacob Wallenberg is proposed to be re-elected as Chair of the Board of Directors.

16.     Election of Auditors and deputy Auditors.

17.     Proposals for resolutions on:

A.      A long-term variable remuneration program for employees within Investor, excluding Patricia Industries.

B.      A long-term variable remuneration program for employees within Patricia Industries.

18.     Proposals for resolutions on:

A.       Purchase and transfer of own shares in order to give the Board of Directors wider freedom of action in the work with the Company’s capital structure, in order to enable transfer of own shares according to 18B, and in order to secure the costs connected to the long-term variable remuneration program according to 17A and the allocation of synthetic shares as part of the compensation to the Board of Directors.

B.       Transfer of own shares in order to enable the Company to transfer own shares to employees who participate in the long-term variable remuneration program 2023 according to 17A.

19.     Conclusion of the Meeting.

Attachment: Notice of Investor AB’s Annual General Meeting on May 3, 2023

This information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 8:20 CET on March 24, 2023.

For further information:

Viveka Hirdman-Ryrberg, Head of Corporate Communication and Sustainability, 
Phone +46 70 550 3500
viveka.hirdman-ryrberg@investorab.com

Magnus Dalhammar, Head of Investor Relations, 
Phone +46 73 524 2130
magnus.dalhammar@investorab.com

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