UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Form 8-K

 

Current Report

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 22, 2013

 

Pegasystems Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Commission File Number:  1-11859

 

Massachusetts

  

04-2787865

(State or other jurisdiction of

  

(IRS Employer

incorporation)

  

Identification No.)

 

One Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

617-374-9600

(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

 

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 5.07.

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

The Annual Meeting was held on May 22, 2013. At the Annual Meeting, the following items were presented to the stockholders of the Company for their approval, and approved by the indicated votes:

1. To elect seven members nominees named in the Company's proxy statement filed with the Commission on April 1, 2013 to serve on the Company's Board of Directors until its 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until the successors are duly elected and qualified. Each nominee for director was elected by a vote of stockholders as follows:

 

Peter

Gyenes

Richard

Jones

Steven

Kaplan

James

O'Halloran

Alan

Trefler

Larry

Weber

William

Wyman

FOR

32,595,783

32,425,055

32,595,358

32,511,350

32,424,588

33,383,078

32,511,650

AGAINST

832,981

1,003,709

833,406

917,414

656,193

45,686

917,114

ABSTAIN

1,210

1,210

1,210

1,210

349,193

1,210

1,210

Non-Votes

2,595,241

2,595,241

2,595,241

2,595,241

2,595,241

2,595,241

2,595,241

 

 

2. To approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers. The compensation of the Company's named executive officers was approved on a non-binding advisory basis by a vote of stockholders as follows:

 

Executive Compensation

FOR

33,298,494

AGAINST

127,224

ABSTAIN

4,256

Non-Votes

2,595,241

 

 

 

3. To ratify the selection by the Audit Committee of the Company's Board of Directors of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2013. The proposal was approved by a vote of stockholders as follows:

 

Auditors

FOR

35,463,871

AGAINST

555,946

ABSTAIN

5,398

Non Votes

0

 

Signature(s)

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pegasystems Inc.

Date: May 28, 2013

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Janet Mesrobian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Janet Mesrobian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Associate General Counsel and Secretary