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2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting, Notice of Meeting

AGM22 September 2022GNEUtilities

MARKET RELEASE

Date: 22 September 2022


NZX: GNE / ASX: GNE

2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting, Notice of Meeting


Genesis Energy advises that the following documents will be sent to the Company’s shareholders

today:


• The Notice of the 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting (ASM), as attached; and

• The Proxy Voting Form for the ASM;


The ASM will be hybrid, with shareholders able to attend in person or online.


Physical: The Maritime Room, Princes Wharf, Auckland CBD, Auckland

Online: https://meetnow.global/nz


The meeting will be held on Friday 14 October 2022, commencing at 10.00 am. A Virtual Meeting

Guide will be sent with the above documents to assist shareholders.


An electronic copy of the Notice of Meeting is also available on the Genesis Energy investor website

at https://www.genesisenergy.co.nz/investor/results-and-reports/annual-shareholders-meeting




ENDS




For investor relations enquiries, please contact:

Tim McSweeney

GM Investor Relations & Market Risk

M: 027 200 5548


For media enquiries, please contact:

Chris Mirams

GM Communications and Media

M: 027 246 1221



About Genesis Energy

Genesis Energy (NZX: GNE, ASX: GNE) is a diversified New Zealand energy company. Genesis sells electricity,

reticulated natural gas and LPG through its retail brands of Genesis and Frank and is one of New Zealand’s largest

energy retailers with approximately 500,000 customers. The Company generates electricity from a diverse

portfolio of thermal and renewable generation assets located in different parts of the country. Genesis also has

a 46% interest in the Kupe Joint Venture, which owns the Kupe Oil and Gas Field offshore of Taranaki, New

Zealand. Genesis had revenue of $NZ2.8 billion during the 12 months ended 30 June 2022. More information

can be found at www.genesisenergy.co.nz

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Notice of Annual
Shareholder Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting of

Genesis Energy Limited will be held on

Friday 14 October 2022,

commencing at 10:00am

Join us in person or online at:

Physical: The Maritime Room, Princes Wharf, Auckland CBD, Auckland

Online: https://meetnow.global/nz

The Maritime Room will be open for registrations at 9:00am.

Light refreshments will be available prior to the start of the meeting, from 9:30am.

For online attendance, please refer to the Virtual Meeting Guide or the Virtual

Meeting Participation instructions in section 6 of this Notice of Meeting.

Important dates and times

All times are in New Zealand Standard Time.

Vote-eligibility date for voting entitlements

for the Annual Shareholder Meeting:

Tuesday 11 October 2022, close of trading.

Latest time for receipt of proxy voting forms:

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10am

Annual Shareholder Meeting:

Friday 14 October 2022, 10am

www.genesisenergy.co.nz

www.genesisenergy.co.nz/investors

Order of Business
Light refreshments will be available prior to the formal part of the Annual

Shareholder Meeting which commences at 10.00am.

A. Chairman’s Address

B. Chief Executive’s Review

C. Shareholder Questions

D. Ordinary Resolutions

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

1. Re-election of Tim Miles

That Tim Miles be re-elected as a Director of the Company.

2. Re-election of Paul Zealand

That Paul Zealand be re-elected as a Director of the Company.

3. Re-election of Catherine Drayton

That Catherine Drayton be re-elected as a Director of the

Company.

4. Election of Hinerangi Raumati-Tu’ua

That Hinerangi Raumati-Tu’ua be elected as a Director of the

Company.

5. Election of Warwick Hunt

That Warwick Hunt be elected as a Director of the Company.

Please read the Explanatory Notes and the Procedural Notes and Other

Information for further information in relation to the above resolutions.

E. General Business

To consider such other business as may lawfully be raised at the meeting.

On behalf of the Board

Matthew Osborne

Company Secretary

22 September 2022

COVID-19 implications

Genesis Energy continues to monitor the situation with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the event that the Board determines that

it is inappropriate to hold a physical meeting, Genesis Energy may, in its sole discretion, elect to hold the Annual Shareholder Meeting

in only a virtual format. In those circumstances, Genesis Energy will provide shareholders with as much notice as is reasonably

practicable by way of an announcement to the NZX and ASX and on Genesis Energy’s website. Please see section 6 of the Procedural

Notes and Other Information for further information on how to participate in the meeting virtually.

NZX Listing Rule 2.7.1 requires that the
Company’s Directors must not hold office

without re-election past the third Annual

Shareholder Meeting following their

appointment or three years, whichever is

longer. Tim Miles, Paul Zealand and

Catherine Drayton were last elected at

the Company’s 2019 Annual Shareholder

Meeting and therefore will retire from

office at this year’s Annual Shareholder

Meeting. Being eligible, each of Tim

Miles, Paul Zealand and Catherine

Drayton offers themselves for re-election.

Hinerangi Raumati-Tu’ua was appointed

as a Director by the Board in March 2022.

Warwick Hunt was appointed as a

Director by the Board in September 2022.

NZX Listing Rule 2.7.1 requires that a

Director of the Company appointed by

the Board must not hold office without

shareholder election past the next Annual

Shareholder Meeting following their

appointment as a Director. Being eligible,

Hinerangi Raumati-Tu’ua and Warwick

Hunt offer themselves for election.

Tim Miles

BA

Tim Miles joined the Genesis Board in November 2016 and is Chairman of the

Company’s Human Resources and Remuneration Committee and a member of the

Company’s Nominations Committee.

Tim began his career with IBM and later joined Data General Corporation, rising to

Director of Marketing – Asia Pacific. He then joined Unisys Corporation in various

senior executive roles before taking up roles as the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone

New Zealand, the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone UK and the Vodafone Group

Chief Technology Officer.

Upon returning to New Zealand, Tim was Managing Director of listed agricultural group

PGG Wrightson before taking up a role as Chief Executive Officer of Spark Digital,

playing a key role in the transition of Spark to become New Zealand’s leading digital

services provider.

Tim is a director of Nyriad, Chairman of Gut Cancer Foundation and ASX listed

company oOh! Media Limited. Tim has also served as a director of UDC Finance,

Goodman Property and Chair on the Advisory Boards of Revera Limited and the

CCL Group.

The Board has determined that each of

the Directors are Independent Directors

as defined in the NZX Listing Rules.

Brief biographies of each Director are

provided below.

The Board of Genesis Energy confirms its

support for the re-election of each of Tim

Miles, Paul Zealand and Catherine

Drayton, and the election of Hinerangi

Raumati-Tu’ua and Warwick Hunt, and

recommends that you vote in favour of

the resolutions at the meeting.

Resolutions 1 - 5:

Re-election of Tim Miles, Paul Zealand and Catherine Drayton and election of Hinerangi Raumati-Tu’ua

and Warwick Hunt.

Explanatory Notes

Paul Zealand

BSc Mech. Eng (Hons), MBA

Paul Zealand joined the Genesis Board in October 2016 and is a member of the

Company’s Human Resources and Remuneration Committee and the Nominations

Committee.

Paul is a professional Director, and is currently Chairman of Port Nelson Limited, a

director of Channel Infrastructure NZ Limited (formerly The New Zealand Refining

Company Limited) and a director of Lochard Energy.

Paul has over 40 years’ international experience in the oil and gas sector. His executive

roles included Country Chairman of Shell New Zealand and Chief Executive Officer of

the upstream oil and gas business of Origin Energy in Australia. Through these roles

Paul developed skills in strategic business management, health and safety, and

environmental management, operational risk and the commercial management of

complex assets.

Catherine Drayton
BCom, LLB, FCA

Catherine joined the Genesis Board in March 2019. She is Chairman of the Company’s

Audit and Risk Committee.

Catherine brings extensive governance experience to Genesis Energy. She is currently

the Chair of Christchurch International Airport Limited, Chair of Guardians of New

Zealand Superannuation as well as being a director of Southern Cross Healthcare

Limited, Southern Cross Benefits Limited, and Director and Trustee of Southern Cross

Medical Care Society. Her former directorships include Ngai Tahu Holdings

Corporation Limited, Beca Group Limited, Powerbyproxi Limited and Meridian Energy

Limited.

Catherine’s executive career as a senior partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers,

specialising in mergers and acquisitions, culminated in leading that company’s

Assurance and Advisory practices for Central and Eastern Europe (excluding Russia).

Catherine is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants New Zealand and Australia.

Hinerangi Raumati-Tu’ua

BMS, MMS, FCA, MNZM

Hinerangi joined the Genesis Board in March 2022. She is a professional company

director with extensive Board experience and is a member of the Company’s Audit and

Risk Committee.

Hinerangi is the Chair of Tainui Group Holdings Limited, Te Pou Herenga Pakihi Limited

and Te Kīwai Mauī o Ngāruahine Limited. She also serves on the Boards of a number of

entities, including Watercare Services Limited and Te Pūia Tāpapa GP Limited, and is

an executive committee member of Waikato-Tainui.

She has previously held governance roles in a range of entities, including Aotearoa

Fisheries Limited (Moana NZ) (as Chair), Sealord Group Limited, Parininihi Ki Waitōtara

Incorporation (as Chair), Venture Taranaki Trust, Port Nicholson Fisheries Limited, Te

Ohu Kai Moana Trustee Limited, Auckland Council Investments Limited, Public Trust,

and Waikato Community Trust.

In addition to her commercial, investment and corporate governance background,

Hinerangi has focused on the development of post settlement commercial entities and

commercial frameworks with a Te Ao Māori view.

Hinerangi has served as CFO of Tainui Group Holdings and Executive Director

Operations at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Hinerangi was named Māori Business Woman

Leader of the Year in 2016 in the University of Auckland Aotearoa Māori Business

Leaders Awards. She served on the Cullen Tax Working Group in 2019.

Warwick Hunt

MNZM, BAcc (Hons), FCA, FKCL

Warwick joined the Genesis Board in September 2022. He is a member of the Company’s

Audit and Risk Committee.

Warwick brings extensive international leadership and governance experience to

Genesis, having worked in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the UK and Europe in

addition to New Zealand over the last thirty years. He has worked across a range of

sectors, including energy, professional services, financial services, agribusiness, and

aviation. He has been appointed a director of the Bank of New Zealand effective 1

November 2022 and is presently the Chair of the Advisory Council of Kings College

London Business School.

Warwick has served as Territory Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand

and Middle East Region and Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers United

Kingdom and Europe Middle East Africa. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants

Australia and New Zealand and an Honorary Fellow of Kings College London.

Having worked offshore since 2009, Warwick is returning to New Zealand

in October 2022.

Procedural Notes
and Other Information

1. Hybrid Meeting

All shareholders will have the option to

attend and participate in the Annual

Shareholder Meeting either in person or,

alternatively, online via an internet

connection using a computer, laptop,

tablet or smartphone.

In the event that the Board determines a

physical meeting is inappropriate in the

circumstances, including due to

COVID-19 preventing the Annual

Shareholder Meeting being held safely,

Genesis Energy may, in its sole discretion,

elect to hold the Annual Shareholder

Meeting as a virtual only meeting.

Details of how to attend and participate

in the Annual Shareholder Meeting

virtually are set out in section 6 below.

2. Persons entitled to vote

Voting entitlements will be determined at

the close of trading on Tuesday 11

October 2022. Registered shareholders

at that time will be the only persons

entitled to vote at the Annual

Shareholder Meeting and only the shares

registered in those shareholders’ names

at that time may be voted at the meeting.

3. Voting

Voting on the resolutions to be put before

the Annual Shareholder Meeting will be

conducted by way of poll.

As a shareholder you may cast your vote

in one of two ways:

a. you may attend the meeting in

person and vote, or you may

participate virtually and vote at the

meeting via an online platform

https://meetnow.global/nz; or

b. you may appoint a proxy or (in the

case of a corporate shareholder) a

representative to attend the

meeting in person and vote in your

place or to participate virtually and

vote at the meeting in your place

via an online platform https://

meetnow.global/nz.

If you (or your proxy on your behalf) vote

online, you (or they) will be required to

enter your CSN securityholder number

and postcode/country of residence and

the secure access control number that is

located on the front of your Proxy Voting

Form and follow the prompts in the email

you receive from the share registrar,

Computershare Investor Services

Limited.

Details of how to participate in the

Annual Shareholder Meeting virtually are

set out in section 6 below.

4. Appointment of Proxy

If you wish to appoint a proxy you should

complete and return the Proxy Voting

Form, which is enclosed with this Notice

of Meeting, or lodge your proxy

preference online at www.investorvote.

co.nz (see below for further details). A

proxy need not be a shareholder of the

Company.

If your proxy is not the Chairman of the

meeting or a Director and they intend to

join the meeting virtually, please ensure

that you provide their contact details in

the space provided on the Proxy Voting

Form.

Proxy Voting Forms must be returned to

the office of the Company’s share

registrar, Computershare Investor

Services Limited, by one of the following

methods:

a. by lodging your proxy

appointment online at www.

investorvote.co.nz or by scanning

the QR code on the Proxy Voting

Form with your smartphone; or

b. by mail in the enclosed pre-paid

envelope; or

c. by scan and email to

corporateactions@computershare.

co.nz.

To be effective, the Proxy Voting Form

must be received by the Company’s share

registrar, or the online appointment

completed, no later than 10.00am (NZST)

on Wednesday 12 October 2022.

You may revoke your proxy by giving

written notice of revocation to the

Company in the manner set out above,

which notice must be received by the

Company’s share registrar no later than

10.00am (NZST) on Wednesday 12

October 2022.

A corporation may appoint a person to

attend the meeting as its representative

in the same manner as it may appoint a

p r o x y.

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 or she sees fit. If you wish to

give your proxy discretion, then you must

mark the appropriate box on the Proxy

Voting Form. If you do not tick any box

for the resolution then your proxy may

vote as they choose, as if you had

selected ‘Proxy’s Discretion’.

The Chairman of the meeting, or any

other Director, is willing to act as a proxy

on behalf of shareholders who wish to

appoint them for that purpose. If, in

appointing your proxy, you do not name a

person to be your proxy, the Chairman of

the meeting will be your proxy and will

vote in accordance with your express

directions.

If additional matters are raised during the

Annual Shareholder Meeting which

require a shareholder vote, your proxy

will be entitled to vote on these

additional matters as he or she thinks fit.

The Chairman of the meeting and

Directors who act as proxies on behalf of

shareholders intend to vote any proxy

discretion in favour of the resolutions,

provided that: Tim Miles, Paul Zealand,

Catherine Drayton, Hinerangi Raumati-

Tu’ua and Warwick Hunt will abstain

from voting any discretionary proxies

given to them relating to their own

re-election or election, as applicable.

If you are attending in person, please

bring the enclosed Proxy Voting Form to

the Annual Shareholder Meeting to assist

with your registration.

5. Ordinary Resolution
Each of resolutions 1 to 5 will be

considered separately and will be passed

if approved by ordinary resolution at the

Annual Shareholder Meeting.

An ordinary resolution is a resolution

approved by a simple majority of the

votes of those shareholders entitled to

vote and voting on the resolution in

person (or virtually) or by proxy or

representative.

6. Virtual Participation

Shareholders can attend the meeting

virtually through the Computershare

Meeting Platform https://meetnow.

global/nz. To access the meeting, select

‘New Zealand’ from the drop-down box,

click ‘Go’ under the Genesis Energy

meeting and then click ‘JOIN MEETING

NOW’. By using the meeting platform,

you will be able to watch the meeting,

vote and ask questions online using your

smartphone, tablet or desktop device.

Please refer to the accompanying Virtual

Meeting Guide for more information. You

will need the latest version of Chrome,

Safari or Edge to access the meeting.

Please ensure your browser is

compatible.

Shareholders may vote on the resolutions

to be put to the Annual Shareholder

Meeting, and ask questions, by using

their own computers or mobile devices

through the online participation portal,

as described in the accompanying Virtual

Meeting Guide (also available at https://

www.genesisenergy.co.nz/investor/

results-and-reports/annual-shareholders-

meeting.

Shareholders may also send questions in

advance of the meeting to investor.

relations@genesisenergy.co.nz. The main

themes will be aggregated and

responded to at the meeting, provided

that the Company reserves the right not

to address questions that, in the

Chairman’s opinion, are not reasonable or

appropriate in the context of an Annual

Shareholder Meeting, or any written

question in advance of the meeting that

was not received by the close of business

on Friday 7 October 2022.

Details of how to participate in the

Annual Shareholder Meeting virtually are

provided in the Virtual Meeting Guide

accompanying this Notice of Meeting.

Shareholders are encouraged to review

the Virtual Meeting Guide prior to the

meeting.

If you have any questions, or need

assistance with the online process,

please contact Computershare on

+64 9 488 8777 between 8.30am and

5.00pm (NZST) Monday to Friday or by

email to corporateactions@

computershare.co.nz.

7. Refreshments

This year, light refreshments will be

available immediately prior to the

meeting, rather than after the conclusion

of the formal part of the meeting.

RSVP
To assist in our planning, we would be grateful if you would

complete this form if you wish to attend this year’s

Annual Shareholder Meeting in person.

Yes I will attend

Name:

Number of attendees:

Please return by mail in the enclosed pre-paid envelope or scan and email to corporateactions@computershare.co.nz

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