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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-058622"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GERN"
cik: "0000886744"
company_name: "GERON CORP"
filed_at: "2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T03:03:49.223349+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Geron Corporation Reports Stockholder Vote Results from 2024 Annual Meeting

## Summary
- All three Class I director nominees (John F. McDonald, John A. Scarlett, Robert J. Spiegel) were elected with between 243M and 277M votes in favor.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 272,059,071 votes for, 8,999,145 against, and 1,941,720 abstentions.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditor for fiscal 2024 approved with 420,096,104 votes for and 3,227,292 against.
- Quorum of 424,014,716 shares represented out of 546,873,894 outstanding shares as of March 12, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-058622
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GERN
- cik: 0000886744
- company_name: GERON CORP
- filed_at: 2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017024058622/0000950170-24-058622-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017024058622/gern-20240509.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  GERON CORP shareholders approved Non-binding advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: The non-binding advisory vote to approve the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as disclosed in the 2024 Proxy Statement was approved based upon the following votes: Votes For Votes Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 272,059,071 8,999,145 1,941,720 141,014,780
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017024058622/0000950170-24-058622-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  GERON CORP shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2024 at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: The selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, was ratified based upon the following votes: Votes For Votes Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 420,096,104 3,227,292 691,320 N/A
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017024058622/0000950170-24-058622-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  GERON CORP shareholders approved Election of three Class I directors at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: Each of the three (3) nominees to hold office as Class I members of the Board of Directors to serve for a three-year term expiring at the Company’s 2027 annual meeting of stockholders were elected based upon the following votes: Name of Director Nominee Votes In Favor Votes Withheld Broker Non-Votes John F. McDonald 277,269,957 5,729,979 141,014,780 John A. Scarlett, M.D. Robert J. Spiegel, M.D., FACP 275,707,115 243,088,760 7,292,821 39,911,176 141,014,780 141,014,780
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017024058622/0000950170-24-058622-index.htm

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