On January 6, 2020, Apple Inc. filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against the shareholder proposal of Zevin Asset Management, LLC requesting that the Board of Directors adopt an accelerated recruitment policy requiring the Company to increase the diversity of senior management and its board of directors, 2 bodies that presently fail to adequately represent diversity and inclusion in the upcoming annual meeting of shareholders to be held on February 28, 2017.