On January 6, 2020, Apple Inc. filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against the shareholder proposal of Antonio Avian Maldonado 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, two bodies that presently fails to adequately represent diversity in the upcoming annual general meeting to be held on February 26, 2016.