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Great-West Lifeco announces election of Directors

Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2, 2024. – Great-West Lifeco today announced that, at its Annual Meeting of Shareholders, all of the 19 director nominees listed in its Management Proxy Circular dated March 7, 2024 were elected. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors are set out below:

Nominee

Votes For

% For

Votes Against

% Against

Michael R. Amend

 790,164,728

99.67%

2,579,441

0.33%

Deborah J. Barrett

 791,332,291

99.82%

1,411,883

0.18%

Robin A. Bienfait

 790,782,059

99.75%

1,962,110

0.25%

Heather E. Conway

 790,293,689

99.69%

2,450,485

0.31%

Marcel R. Coutu

 782,106,199

98.66%

10,637,653

1.34%

André Desmarais

 758,864,555

95.73%

33,879,235

4.27%

Paul Desmarais, Jr.

 751,473,170

94.79%

41,270,624

5.21%

Gary A. Doer

 789,442,952

99.58%

3,300,688

0.42%

Claude Généreux

 758,667,749

95.70%

34,076,052

4.30%

Jake P. Lawrence

 776,397,732

97.94%

16,346,071

2.06%

Paula B. Madoff

 790,489,959

99.72%

2,254,210

0.28%

Paul A. Mahon

 788,270,160

99.44%

4,474,000

0.56%

Susan J. McArthur

 788,834,015

99.51%

3,910,150

0.49%

R. Jeffrey Orr

 753,512,703

95.05%

 39,231,208

4.95%

James P. O’Sullivan

 775,964,737

97.88%

 16,779,414

2.12%

T. Timothy Ryan

 787,977,679

99.40%

4,766,479

0.60%

Dhvani D. Shah

 790,766,009

99.75%

1,978,162

0.25%

Siim A. Vanaselja

 785,921,735

99.14%

6,822,421

0.86%

Brian E. Walsh

 783,927,167

98.89%

8,816,990

1.11%

Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting will be available at sedarplus.caOpens a new website in a new window.

About Great-West Lifeco Inc.

Great-West Lifeco is a Canadian headquartered, international financial services holding company with interests in life insurance, health insurance, retirement and investment services, asset management and reinsurance businesses. We operate in Canada, the United States and Europe under the brands Canada Life, Empower, and Irish Life. At the start of 2024, our companies had over 32,250 employees, 106,000 advisor relationships, and thousands of distribution partners – serving approximately 40 million customer relationships.

Great-West Lifeco trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker symbol GWO and is a member of the Power Corporation group of companies. 

For more information:

Media Relations
Tim Oracheski
204-946-8961
media.relations@canadalife.com

Investor Relations
Deirdre Neary
647-328-2134
deirdre.neary@canadalife.com