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...BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street endorsed a pay petition for Ford that came from John Chevedden, a longtime boardroom agitator who has been derisively labelled a “gadfly” for his corporate governance...
...John Chevedden, the activist shareholder who advanced the proposal, said that while Boeing was not legally bound by the vote, ignoring it could lead to consequences next year, such as the proxy advisers...
...“There is a consensus that he was slow [to respond],” says John Chevedden, an activist Boeing shareholder....
...“They’re just trying to thrown down a roadblock,” said John Chevedden, another shareholder campaigner who has put forward proposals to lower the threshold for special meetings....
...“Things have not got much better since 2008 and we could run into another 2008 again,” said John Chevedden, a private investor who put forward the proposal at Citigroup....
...John Chevedden, one of the most prolific sponsors of proposals at US corporate meetings, says the large mutual fund complexes have never been in the forefront of improvements to shareholder rights....
...John Chevedden, a one-man corporate governance machine, sponsored 6 per cent. He was involved behind the scenes with at least as many again, on behalf of more than six other individual shareholders....
...According to the WSJ, all of the proposals came from one man, activist investor John Chevedden....
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