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Notice of Annual Shareholders Meeting

AGM27 July 2021SKOIndustrials

Dear Shareholder
On behalf of the Board of Directors I am pleased to invite you to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Serko Limited (Serko or the Company).

The meeting will be a hybrid meeting, whereby shareholders can choose to attend in person or online.

Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders 2021

Where: In person at Link Market Services Limited, Level 30, PwC Tower, 15 Customs Street West,

Auckland, New Zealand and online at www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/sko21

When: Wednesday 18 August 2021 at 2.00pm (New Zealand time)


Shareholders attending the meeting will be able to vote and ask questions at the meeting. Shareholders can also pre-submit questions

either online at vote.linkmarketservices.com/SKO or using the Proxy Form. Questions will need to be submitted by 2.00pm (New Zealand

time) on Monday, 16 August 2021.

If you cannot attend the Annual Meeting either in person or virtually online, I encourage you to complete and lodge the proxy form in

accordance with the instructions on that form so that it reaches Link Market Services by 2.00pm (New Zealand time) on Monday, 16

August 2021.

Serko is monitoring the situation in New Zealand with regard to Covid-19. In the event of any significant developments, the Company

may, at its discretion, elect to hold the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting as an online-only meeting if there are potential risks to the health of

meeting attendees, or if an in-person meeting is prohibited by law. In such circumstances, the Company will provide shareholders with as

much notice as is reasonably practicable by way of an announcement to the NZX and ASX and on our website at www.serko.com.

Items of business

A. Chair’s Address and Chief Executive Officer’s Address

Chair, Claudia Batten, and Co-Founder and CEO, Darrin Grafton, will provide an overview of the Company ’s performance for the

year ended 31 March 2021 and the trading performance and strategy for the current financial year. There will be an opportunity for

shareholders to ask questions after the addresses.

B. Ordinary Resolutions

Shareholders will be asked to consider, and if thought fit, pass the following ordinary resolutions:

1. That Mr Robert Shaw be re-elected as an executive director of Serko Limited.

2. That the maximum aggregate amount of remuneration payable by Serko Limited to its non-executive directors

(in their capacity as directors, as that term is defined in the NZX Listing Rules) be increased by NZD$150,000 per annum

(plus GST, where applicable) from a total pool of NZD$450,000 per annum to NZD$600,000 per annum (plus GST, where

applicable), to be paid and allocated to the non-executive directors as the Board considers appropriate and that any

remuneration payable to non-executive directors may, at the Board’s discretion, be paid either in part or in whole by

way of an issue of Equity Securities (as that term is defined in the NZX Listing Rules) in the Company.

3. That the directors are authorised to fix the fees and expenses of Deloitte as auditor for the 2022 financial year.

See explanatory notes on each of these resolutions below.

The Board recommends unanimously that you vote in favour of all resolutions.

C. General Business and Shareholder Discussion

To consider any other matter that may be brought properly before the Annual Meeting.

By Order of the Serko Board

Claudia Batten – Chair

28 July 2021

Explanatory Notes
Board Succession

At the 2019 Annual Meeting, the Serko Board signalled its

intention to begin a process of refreshing the Board in

accordance with best practice. The recruitment of a new

director was delayed during 2020 to enable the Board to focus

its attention on overseeing and guiding the business through the

challenging operating environment caused by Covid-19.

The Board has subsequently made good progress with its search

and is in the final stages of appointing a new independent

director. The new appointment will replace Simon Botherway,

who has previously indicated an intention to retire from the

Board in due course after serving on the Board since 2014.

He will retire at the conclusion of the 2021 Annual Meeting.

Consequently, he is not seeking re-election at this Annual

Meeting. The Board thanks Simon for his leadership and

commitment over the past 7.5 years.


The Board will confirm the new appointment as soon as possible

and expects the appointment to take effect from the end of the

2021 Annual Meeting. The Board is also actively searching for

an additional new independent director to join the Board as it

continues to add additional skills to support Serko’s international

scaling efforts.

Resolution 1: Re-election of Robert (Bob) Shaw

as an Executive Director

Robert (Bob) Shaw is one of the co founders of Serko and is

Serko’s Chief Strategy Officer. He was appointed an executive

director at the time of incorporation of Serko Limited on 5 April

2007 (and was last re-elected by shareholders in August 2018).

In accordance with the applicable NZX Listing Rules, Bob retires

by rotation and offers himself for re-election as a director of

Serko at the meeting. The Board unanimously supports Bob’s

re-election.

Robert (Bob) Shaw

Co Founder, Chief Strategy Officer & Executive Director

Non Independent

Appointed 5 April 2007, re-elected August 2018.


Since 1987, Bob has been involved in transforming the travel

industry, collaborating with the World’s leading airlines, travel

agencies and global distribution systems. He has held a number

of directorships and senior management positions in various

high-profile ventures, including Gullivers Travel Group (listed on

the Australian and New Zealand Stock Exchanges between 2004

and 2006) and Interactive Technologies. Bob has been a past

finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He is also a

member of the Institute of IT Professionals NZ and the Institute

of Directors NZ.

Resolution 2: Non-Executive Director Fees


The Board is seeking, with shareholders’ approval, to increase

the aggregate amount available to pay non-executive directors

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by NZD$150,000 (plus GST, where applicable) (being an increase

of 33% from the current fee cap of NZD$450,000 per annum) to

• enable the Board to attract and recruit an additional

(fourth) suitably qualified international non-executive

director as part of the Board’s succession plans to support

the business as it scales; and

• to provide headroom to pay ad hoc special fees to directors

for services outside of their usual duties for Serko, as

required. For example, in the event a capital raising or

transaction was undertaken that required significant

additional governance oversight.

In recommending this proposed increase to the fee cap, the

Board has considered the recommendations of independent

remuneration consultants, Strategic Pay Limited (detailed

below), the global nature and complexity of Serko’s business, and

the time commitment and level of governance required by the

Serko Board.

Independent Benchmarking

The Board periodically reviews director fees to ensure Serko’s

non-executive directors are fairly remunerated, taking into

account the level of skill and experience required to fulfil the role

of a director of Serko and the significant workload associated

with Serko’s growth and international ambitions.


In doing so, the Board is committed to ensuring that directors’

fees are set in a manner that is fair, flexible and transparent.

To support this process the Board engaged Strategic Pay

Limited to conduct a fee benchmarking exercise. Strategic Pay

maintains a significant data base of directors’ fees. Using this

data base, Serko’s directors’ fees were benchmarked against

customised industry peer groups made up of New Zealand and

Australian listed companies that predominantly operate in the

technology sector, have a global focus, with the majority of their

revenue earned outside of New Zealand, and/or have a similar

level of complexity in their business to Serko.


From this data, Strategic Pay made an assessment about the

recommended level of fees to be paid to Serko directors. These

are set out in the table below and are benchmarked against the

current fee structure used to remunerate Serko’s non-executive

directors. As Serko currently derives the majority of its revenue

from Australia and is listed as an ASX Foreign Exempt Listed

Issuer, it pays its directors in Australian dollars (AUD).


A summary of Strategic Pay ’s report can be viewed on Serko’s

website at www.serko.com/investors.

The Board believes that current fees paid to non-executive

directors are reflective of the market (per Strategic Pay ’s

recommendation below), in light of the global nature and

complexity of Serko’s business, and the time commitment

and level of governance required by the Board. The Board is,

however, conscious that it may need to pay higher fees to an

international director than those currently paid to existing

non-executive directors to attract the calibre sought to support

the business through its next phase of growth. Accordingly, the

Board is seeking an approval to increase the fee cap rather than

relying on NZX Listing Rule 2.11.3, which enables the Board to

automatically increase the fee pool by the average amount paid

to non-executive directors (excluding the chairperson) without

seeking further shareholder approval.


1

Executive directors, Darrin Grafton and Bob Shaw, do not receive director fees but

are remunerated as employees.

Voting restrictions
Pursuant to NZX Listing Rule 6.3.1, Serko will disregard any votes

on resolution 2 by:

1. any non-executive director of Serko; and

2. any associated person of any non-executive director

of Serko,


except where any such vote is cast by the director or one of their

associates as proxy for a person who is qualified to vote and only

in accordance with that person’s express instructions.

Resolution 3: Fixing the Fees and Expenses of

the Auditor

Deloitte are currently Serko’s auditors and will be automatically

reappointed under the Companies Act 1993 to act as auditor for

the 2022 financial year. Under the Companies Act, auditor fees

and expenses must be fixed in the manner determined at the

Annual Meeting. Shareholder approval is, therefore, sought to

authorise the Board to fix the fees and expenses of Deloitte as

auditor.

ROLE

CURRENT SERKO DIRECTORS’

FEES PER ANNUM

STRATEGIC PAY

RECOMMENDATION

BASE FEES

Chair

AUD$140,000

(NZD$150,000)

AUD$140,000 to $163,500

(NZD$150,000 to $174,000)

Non-Executive Director

AUD$95,000

(NZD$101,000)

AUD$70,000 to $96,000

(NZD$75,000 to $102,000)

AUDIT AND RISK COMMITTEE / REMUNERATION

AND NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE FEES

Chair

AUD$20,000

(NZD$21,000)

AUD$20,000

(NZD$21,000)

Member

AUD$9,000

(NZD$10,000)

AUD$9,000

(NZD$10,000)

Important Information
Hybrid Annual Meeting

Shareholders will be able to attend and participate in this year’s

Annual Meeting either in person or virtually via an online platform

provided by our share registrar, Link Market Services at

www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/sko21.

Shareholders attending and participating in the virtual Annual

Meeting will be able to vote and ask questions during the

meeting.

More information regarding virtual attendance at the Annual

Meeting (including how to vote and ask questions virtually during

the meeting) is available in the ‘Virtual Annual Meeting Online

Portal Guide’ available at https://bcast.linkinvestorservices.

co.nz/generic/docs/OnlinePortalGuide.pdf.

Proxies

Any shareholder who is entitled to attend and vote at the Annual

Meeting may appoint a proxy, who need not be a shareholder, to

attend and vote instead of him/her by completing and returning

the enclosed proxy form or lodging their proxy online as detailed

below. If you appoint a proxy you may either direct your proxy

how to vote for you or you may give your proxy discretion to vote

as he/ she sees fit. If you wish to give your proxy discretion then

you must mark the appropriate boxes on the form to grant your

proxy that discretion. If you do not tick any box for a particular

resolution, your proxy may vote as they choose.

Shareholders can elect to vote their proxies online by visiting

vote.linkmarketservices.com/SKO or by scanning the QR code on

the Proxy Form with your smartphone.

If you do not name a person as your proxy, but otherwise

complete the proxy form in full, or your named proxy does not

attend the meeting, the Chair: (a) will be appointed your proxy

and may only vote in accordance with your express direction;

and (b) will not vote on resolution 2 if granted a discretion on how

to vote on that resolution.

The Chair of the meeting or any director is willing to act as proxy

for any shareholder who appoints him/her for that purpose. If

you tick the ‘Proxy Discretion’ box, you acknowledge that they

may exercise your proxy even if they have an interest in the

outcome of that resolution (subject to any restrictions contained

in the NZX Listing Rules). The Chair and directors intend to vote

all discretionary proxies in favour of resolutions 1 and 3 (refer

below in respect of resolution 2) even if they have an interest in

any of the resolutions.

The completed proxy form must be received by the share

registry no later than 2.00pm on Monday 16 August 2021.

NZX Register holders:

You will need to enter your CSN/Holder Number and

Authorisation Code (FIN) to securely complete your proxy

appointment online.

ASX Register holders:

You will need to enter your Holder Number and postcode to

securely complete your proxy appointment online.

If you wish to mail the proxy form then please send it to our

share registry, Link Market Services Limited, using the freepost

envelope incorporated into the form.

Alternatively, you can scan and email the completed proxy form

to meetings@linkmarketservices.co.nz (please put the words

Serko Proxy Form in the subject line for easy identification).

Ordinary Resolution

An ordinary resolution is one passed by a simple majority of

votes from shareholders entitled to vote and voting on the

resolution.

Voting

Voting entitlements for the Annual Meeting will be determined as

at 5.00pm on Monday 16 August 2021. Registered shareholders

at that time will be the only persons entitled to vote at the Annual

Meeting and only the shares registered in those shareholders’

names at that time may be voted at the Annual Meeting.

The Chair will require voting at the Annual Meeting to be

conducted by poll, as required by the NZX Listing Rules.

Serko will disregard any votes on resolution 2 by any non-

executive director of Serko and any associated person of

any non-executive director of Serko, except where any such

vote is cast by the director or one of their associates as proxy

for a person who is entitled to vote and the director or that

associate votes in accordance with express instructions to

vote for or against a particular resolution on the Proxy/Voting

form. No voting restrictions apply to the other resolutions being

considered at the meeting.

More information and Asking Questions

If you have any questions, or for more information,

please contact Serko’s Company Secretary at

company.secretary@serko.com.

Shareholders can also pre-submit questions by sending them

to either online at vote.linkmarketservices.com/SKO or using

the Proxy Form, prior to the meeting. Questions will need to be

submitted by 2.00pm on Monday 16 August 2021.

Company Details

Serko Limited

Saatchi Building Unit 14D

125 The Strand, Parnell

Auckland

New Zealand

Incorporated in New Zealand

ARBN 611 613 980

PO Box 47-638, Ponsonby

+64 9 309 4754

company.secretary@serko.com

* All times and dates stated are New Zealand time (NZT)

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LODGE YOUR PROXY
Online:

http://vote.linkmarketservices.com/SKO


Scan & email:

meetings@linkmarketservices.com Mail:

Use the enclosed reply paid

Deliver: envelope or address to:

Link Market Services Link Market Services Limited

Level 30, PwC Tower, PO Box 91976

15 Customs Street West, Auckland Auckland 1142

Scan this QR code with your smartphone and vote online









General Enquiries

+64 9 375 5998 | enquiries@linkmarketservices.com


PROXY FORM/ADMISSION CARD FOR SERKO LIMITED 2021 ANNUAL MEETING

The Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Serko Limited (“Serko”) will be held at the offices of Link Market Services Limited, Level 30, PwC Tower, 15 Customs Street

West, Auckland and online via the Link Market Services online portal at www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/sko21 on Wednesday, 18 August 2021 commencing at 2.00pm

(New Zealand time).

If you do not plan to attend the meeting in person or virtually but wish to appoint a proxy you can do so online at http://vote.linkmarketservices.com/SKO.

Alternatively, please complete the reverse of this form and return the form intact to Link Market Services by no later than 2.00pm (New Zealand time) Monday, 16

August 2021, being 48 hours before the commencement of the Annual Meeting.


Appointment of proxy

A shareholder of the Company who is entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend and vote instead of him/her. If you appoint

a proxy, you may still attend the meeting (but will not be able to vote if your proxy also attends the meeting). A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company.

Any corporation that is a shareholder may appoint a person as its representative to attend the meeting online and vote on its behalf, in the same manner as that in

which it could appoint a proxy. If you do not name a person as your proxy or your named proxy does not attend the meeting, the Chair will be appointed your proxy

and may only vote in accordance with your express direction.


Voting of your holding

If you appoint a proxy you must either direct the proxy how to vote by ticking the “For”, “Against” or “Abstain” box in respect of each resolution OR by ticking the

‘Proxy Discretion’ box in respect of each resolution. If you do not tick a box your proxy may vote as they choose. If you mark more than one box on an item your

vote will be invalid on that item. If you tick the ‘Proxy Discretion’ box for a particular resolution, you are directing your proxy to decide how to vote on that resolution

on your behalf. If you tick the ‘Abstain’ box for a particular resolution, you are directing your proxy not to vote on that resolution. If a proxy does not vote on your

behalf on a resolution, your votes will not be counted when calculating the majority of that resolution.


The Chair of the meeting or any director is willing to act as proxy for any shareholder who appoints him/her for that purpose. If you tick the ‘Proxy Discretion’ box,

you acknowledge that they may exercise your proxy even if they have an interest in the outcome of that resolution (subject to any restrictions contained in the NZX

Listing Rules). The Chair and directors intend to vote all discretionary proxies in favour of resolutions 1 and 3 (refer below regarding resolution 2), even if they have

an interest in any of the resolutions.


Voting Restrictions

Serko will disregard any votes on resolution 2 by any non-executive director of Serko; and any associated person of any non-executive director of Serko, except

where any such vote is cast by the director or one of their associates as proxy for a person who is qualified to vote and in accordance with that person’s express

instructions. No voting restrictions apply to the other resolutions being considered at the meeting.


Signing instructions for proxy forms

Individual

Where the holding is in one name, the shareholder must sign this Proxy Form.


Joint Holding

This Proxy Form may be signed by either, or on behalf of, the joint shareholders (or their duly authorised attorney).


Power of Attorney

If this proxy form has been signed under a power of attorney, a copy of the power of attorney (unless already deposited with Link Market Services Limited) and a

signed certificate of non-revocation of the power of attorney must be returned to Link Market Services Limited.


Corporate Shareholder

If the shareholder is a company, this proxy form must be signed on behalf of the company by a duly authorised person acting under the company’s express or

implied authority.

PROXY FORM

STEP 1: APPOINT A PROXY TO VOTE ON YOUR BEHALF

I/We named above, being a shareholder of Serko Limited:


hereby appoint*: _______________________________________________________of___________________________________________________

(Full Name) (E-mail Address)


or: _______________________________________________________of___________________________________________________

(Full Name) (E-mail Address)

as my/our proxy to vote for me/us on my/our behalf at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Company to be held at the offices of Link

Market Services Limited, Level 30, PwC Tower, 15 Customs Street West, Auckland and online at www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/sko21 on

Wednesday, 18 August 2021 at 2.00pm (New Zealand time), and at any adjournment of that meeting, and to vote as my/our proxy thinks fit

(to the extent permitted by law and the NZX listing rules) on any resolutions to amend any of the resolutions, or any resolution so amended

and on any other resolution proposed at the Annual Meeting (or any adjournment thereof) so as to give effect to my/our intention as set out

below where possible.

*If you do not name a person as your proxy, but otherwise complete the proxy form in full, or your named proxy does not attend the meeting,

the Chair: (a) will be appointed your proxy and may only vote in accordance with your express direction; and (b) will not vote on resolution 2 if

granted a discretion on how to vote on that resolution.


STEP 2: ITEMS OF BUSINESS – VOTING INSTRUCTIONS

Please note: For each resolution you must tick one box. If you mark the abstain box for an item, you are directing your proxy not to vote on

your behalf during a poll and your votes will not be counted in computing the required majority for that item.

Resolutions

To consider and, if thought fit pass, the following ordinary resolutions:


Please indicate with a ✓


For Against Abstain Proxy

Discretion

1.

That Mr Robert Shaw be re-elected as an executive director of Serko Limited.

   

2.

That the maximum aggregate amount of remuneration payable by Serko Limited to its

non-executive directors (in their capacity as directors, as that term is defined in the NZX

Listing Rules) be increased by NZD$150,000 per annum (plus GST, where applicable)

from a total pool of NZD$450,000 per annum to NZD$600,000 per annum (plus GST,

where applicable), to be paid and allocated to the non-executive directors as the Board

considers appropriate and that any remuneration payable to non-executive directors

may, at the Board’s discretion, be paid either in part or in whole by way of an issue of

Equity Securities (as that term is defined in the NZX Listing Rules) in the Company.

   

3.

That the directors are authorised to fix the fees and expenses of Deloitte as auditor for

the 2022 financial year.

   


STEP 3: SHAREHOLDER QUESTIONS

Shareholders present at the Annual Meeting (either in person or online) will have the opportunity to ask questions during the meeting. If you

cannot attend the Annual Meeting but would like to ask a question, you can submit a question online by going to

http://vote.linkmarketservices.com/SKO and completing the online validation process or complete the question section below and return to

Link Market Services. Questions will need to be submitted by 2.00pm on Monday 16 August 2021. The Board will seek to address and answer

questions at the Annual Meeting.




STEP 4: SIGN: SIGNATURE OF SHAREHOLDER(S) This section must be completed

Shareholder 1 Shareholder 2 Shareholder 3


or duly authorised officer or attorney or duly authorised officer or attorney or duly authorised officer or attorney

Contact Name __________________________________________________Contact Daytime Telephone ________________________ Date ____________

Electronic Investor Communications: If you received the Notice of Meeting and Proxy Form by mail and wish to receive your future investor

communications by email please provide your email address below.

Question:

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Serko Limited, Saatchi Building, Unit 14D 125 The Strand, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
PO Box 47-638, Ponsonby, T: +64 9 309 4754, F: +64 9 377 0545, company.secretary@serko.com

Incorporated in New Zealand ARBN 611 613 980





Market Release

28 July 2021


Notice of Annual Shareholders Meeting


Serko Limited (NZX/ASX: SKO) (Serko) has today provided a copy of its Notice of Annual Shareholders'

Meeting.


Serko’s Annual Meeting will be held at the offices of Link Market Services Limited, Level 30, PwC Tower, 15

Customs Street West, Auckland, New Zealand and online via the Link Market Services online portal at

www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/sko21 on Wednesday, 18 August 2021 commencing at 2.00pm (New Zealand time).


The Notice of Meeting and Proxy/Voting Form will be emailed to shareholders who have provided the

company’s share registrar with an email address and mailed in hard copy where the company’s share registrar

does not have an email address. An electronic copy of these documents will also be available on the

company’s website www.serko.com/investor-centre.



For and on behalf of Serko Limited by Sarah Miller, General Counsel & Company Secretary.


ENDS


For investor relations queries please contact:

Sarah Miller

General Counsel & Company Secretary

Serko

+64 272 450 267

investor.relations@serko.com

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