(4) AMEC Procedure for the election of the 2015 board: AMEC 2014 AGM

4) ELECTION OF BOARD
AMEC Procedure for the Election of the Board
Dear Member
The Annual General Meeting of the International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of
Communication (AMEC) will be held from 14:15-15:15 on Thursday 4th December, 2014, at the offices
of Gorkana Group at 140 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BJ. AMEC extends its thanks to Gorkana Group for
their hospitality. For directions, see this link. (Immediately prior to this meeting a Extraordinary General
Meeting (EGM) will be held from 13:45-14:15).
Under the rules which form part of the Memorandum and Articles of the Association, half of the Board
resigns each year. Therefore, the number of vacancies and directors who will retire this year are:
Full Members:

6 Vacancies

Retiring Directors:

Barbara Bassi, LEco Della Stampa Spa

Evgeniy Larionov, Ex Libris
Jerry Ward, Press Data
Mike Daniels, Salience Insight
Peter Granat, Cision
Peter Low, Precise

Associate Members:

0 Vacancies

Individual Members:

1 Vacancy

Retiring Director:

Stuart Fraser

All of the above are eligible for re-election subject to the Articles of Association. Nominations are
not restricted to the nominees own organisation and you are encouraged to nominate as many
candidates as you wish.
Remaining on the Board will be:
Full Members:
Aseem Sood, Impact Research and Evaluation.
Francois Nicolon, Kantar Media.
Jeremy Thompson, Gorkana Group.
John Croll, iSentia.
Sergi Guillot, Acceso Group.
Associate Members:
Daniel Schaible, BurrellesLuce.
Elayne Phillips, DEFRA.
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(4) AMEC Procedure for the election of the 2015 board: AMEC 2014 AGM

Seats on the Board are open for election. Please carefully read these notes below to help make the
procedure easy to follow.
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Seats open for election this year are as follows:

a. 6 Full Member directors
b. 0 Associate Member directors
c.

1 Individual Member director

Nominations are now required to fill these vacancies and should be received by AMEC,
scrutineers and to arrive not later than 17.00 (GMT) on Friday 31st October 2014. Please email to: barryleggetter@amecorg.com and juliewilkinson@amecorg.com

Nominations should be made using the attached form, signed and then e-mailed to
barryleggetter@amecorg.com and juliewilkinson@amecorg.com. You may make as many
nominations as you wish, but please use a separate form for each one. Self-nominations are
welcome and may be counter-signed (see Article 58) on receipt in the AMEC office. In the case of
another person whom you may wish to nominate please indicate whether their prior consent has
already been given.

Nominees must attach to the nomination form a personal statement to support their nomination but
both documents must reach AMEC no later than 17.00 (GMT) on Friday 31st October 2014.

If the number of nominations exceeds the number of vacancies in any one category a ballot will be
arranged by e-mail. This will take place in the period Monday 3rd November to 1700 (GMT) Monday
17th November, 2014.

In the ballot all members will be invited to vote only in their own category of membership. Barry
Leggetter and Julie Wilkinson have been appointed as scrutineers by the Board.

Members may vote only if their membership dues have been fully paid.

The responsibilities of each elected Director will be determined by the Board after the AGM.

Notes
Board Meetings are held predominantly through conference calls 4-6 six times per year. Directors must
appoint Alternates to attend a Board meeting on their behalf if they are unable to attend.
Barry Leggetter, FCIPR, FPRCA
CEO & Company Secretary
Julie Wilkinson
Executive Assistant, PA to the CEO
Scutineers
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13 October, 2014

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