Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

The 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Baker Hughes Company (the "Company") was held on May 14, 2020 (the "Annual Meeting") to (i) elect nine members to the Board of Directors (the "Board") to serve for a one-year term, (ii) vote on an advisory vote to approve the Company's executive compensation program, and (iii) ratify KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2020. Each director nominated was elected, the advisory vote to approve the Company's executive compensation program and the ratification of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2020 were each approved.

As of March 23, 2020, the record date, there were 653,740,913 shares of Class A common stock ("Class A Common Stock") issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting and 377,427,884 shares of Class B common stock ("Class B Common Stock," and together with the Class A Common Stock, the "Common Stock"), issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. There were 974,570,100 shares of Common Stock represented in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting, constituting a quorum. The affirmative vote of the plurality of votes cast by the holders of shares of Common Stock present or represented at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote is needed to elect each director. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of Common Stock present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the matter is required for the approval of the other proposals.

The number of votes for, withheld and broker non-votes for the election of each director was as follows:





Name                     Number of Votes  Withheld Votes     Broker
                               FOR                         Non-Votes

W. Geoffrey Beattie 869,172,053 70,426,355 34,971,692 Gregory D. Brenneman 935,443,246 4,155,162 34,971,692 Cynthia B. Carroll 938,148,712 1,449,696 34,971,692 Clarence P. Cazalot, Jr. 938,079,675 1,518,733 34,971,692 Nelda J. Connors 845,327,472 94,270,936 34,971,692 Gregory L. Ebel

           927,500,415      12,097,993     34,971,692
Lynn L. Elsenhans         938,156,123       1,442,286     34,971,692
John G. Rice              689,305,897      250,292,512    34,971,692
Lorenzo Simonelli         918,766,220      20,832,189     34,971,692

The number of votes for, against, abstentions and broker non-votes with respect to the advisory vote related to the Company's executive compensation program was as follows:

Number of Votes Number of Votes Abstentions Broker Non-Votes


      FOR           AGAINST
  865,879,883     73,348,951      369,575      34,971,692

The number of votes for, against, abstentions and broker non-votes with respect to the ratification of KPMG LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for fiscal year 2020 was as follows:

Number of Votes Number of Votes Abstentions Broker Non-Votes


      FOR           AGAINST
  973,501,864       651,182       417,055          0


Item 8.01. Other Events

On May 14, 2020, the Board of Directors elected Lorenzo Simonelli as Chairman of the Board and W. Geoffrey Beattie as Lead Director. The Board also made the following committee appointments:









                                                                  Conflicts Committee
  Audit Committee    Compensation Committee     Governance &       (subcommittee of
                                            Nominating Committee     Governance &
                                                                 Nominating Committee)

Gregory L. Ebel* Gregory D. Brenneman* Lynn L. Elsenhans* Clarence P. Cazalot * W. Geoffrey Beattie John G. Rice Gregory D. Brenneman Gregory D. Brenneman

Lynn L. Elsenhans Clarence P. Cazalot Clarence P. Cazalot Lynn L. Elsenhans


 Cynthia B. Carroll     Nelda J. Connors    W. Geoffrey Beattie
                                              Gregory L. Ebel
* Chair

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits





(d) Exhibits



Exhibit No. Description



101.SCH*    Inline XBRL Schema Document
101.CAL*    Inline XBRL Calculation Linkbase Document
101.LAB*    Inline XBRL Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE*    Inline XBRL Presentation Linkbase Document
101.DEF*    Inline XBRL Definition Linkbase Document
104*        Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and
            contained in Exhibit 101)

* Furnished herewith

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