VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC. 2024-2025 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: To elect three directors named in the proxy statement to hold office until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified: Sujeet Chand, Ph.D.

VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: (a) Sujeet Chand, Ph.D.”): 48,569,028 for, 669,499 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 8, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the directors up for election was elected and each of the other matters was approved by the required number of votes on each such matter.”
Support: 99% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 82 asset managers below reported 27,824,229 for, 12,149 withheld, 0 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect three directors named in the proxy statement to hold office until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified: William J. Miller, Ph.D.

VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: (b) William J. Miller, Ph.D.”): 48,766,097 for, 472,430 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 8, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the directors up for election was elected and each of the other matters was approved by the required number of votes on each such matter.”
Support: 99.0% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 82 asset managers below reported 27,831,736 for, 4,642 withheld, 0 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect three directors named in the proxy statement to hold office until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified: Thomas St. Dennis

VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: (c) Thomas St. Dennis”): 48,676,378 for, 562,149 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 8, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the directors up for election was elected and each of the other matters was approved by the required number of votes on each such matter.”
Support: 99% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 82 asset managers below reported 27,831,386 for, 4,991 withheld, 0 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To approve an amendment to Veeco's 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan to extend the termination date to May 8, 2035 and to increase the authorized shares of Veeco's common stock thereunder by 750,000 shares;

VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC.’s own tally for this item (“2. Approval of an amendment to Veeco's 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan”): 49,142,292 for, 83,337 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 8, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 99.8% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 85 asset managers below reported 28,081,391 for, 4,636 against, 0 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers;

VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC.’s own tally for this item (“3. Approval of the advisory vote on executive compensation”): 48,619,366 for, 599,772 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 8, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 99% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice).

Fund voting reports, all 82 managers: 27,802,629 for, 31,273 against, 2,476 abstained. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 217 managers: 27,692,194 for, 506,053 against, 1,053 abstained, 3,392 not voted. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: To ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025; and

VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC.’s own tally for this item (“4. Ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP”): 52,207,018 for, 187,548 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 8, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 99.6% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 82 asset managers below reported 27,833,299 for, 21 against, 2,476 abstained.

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