On April 6, 2022, SOC Investment Group filed an exempt solicitation statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders of Apple Inc., to vote: (1) against the say-on-pay proposal; (2) against Compensation Committee Members Sébastien Bazin, Francisco D’Souza, Edward Garden, Thomas Horton (Chair), and Paula Reynolds; and (3) for the ratification of termination pay proposal, at the Company’s annual shareholders meeting scheduled to be held on May 4, 2022.