Edgar Filing: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP /DE/

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

(Registrant)

Date: April 13, 2012

/s/ An-Ping Hsieh

An-Ping Hsieh

Vice President, Secretary and Associate General Counsel

Form 8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 11, 2012

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

1-812

06-0570975

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

One Financial Plaza

Hartford, Connecticut 06103

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

(860) 728-7000

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Section 5—Corporate Governance and Management

Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(b) On April 11, 2012, United Technologies Corporation (“UTC”) held its 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareowners. As previously disclosed in UTC’s 2012 Proxy Statement, director Charles R. Lee did not stand for reelection and retired from UTC’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) effective as of April 11, 2012, consistent with the provisions of UTC’s Corporate Governance Guidelines requiring that outside directors retire from the Board as of the annual meeting following the attainment of age 72.

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

As noted above, UTC held its Annual Meeting of Shareowners on April 11, 2012. As of February 15, 2012, the record date for the meeting, 910,162,300 shares of UTC Common Stock were issued and outstanding. A quorum of 786,393,676 shares of Common Stock were present or represented at the meeting.

The following individuals were elected to serve as directors for a one-year term expiring at the 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareowners or upon the election and qualification of their successors:

Louis R. Chênevert, John V. Faraci, Jean-Pierre Garnier, Jamie S. Gorelick, Edward A. Kangas, Ellen J. Kullman, Richard D. McCormick, Harold McGraw III, Richard B. Myers, H. Patrick Swygert, André Villeneuve, and Christine Todd Whitman.

The Shareowners voted on the following matters and cast their votes as described below.

1)	Election of Directors. The voting results for each of the nominees were as follows:


Nominee	Votes For		Votes Against		Abstentions		Broker Non-Votes
Louis R. Chênevert		681,424,300		20,873,936		812,647		83,282,793
John V. Faraci		700,168,918		2,076,304		865,661		83,282,793
Jean-Pierre Garnier		676,043,744		26,192,747		874,392		83,282,793
Jamie S. Gorelick		675,092,325		27,175,731		842,827		83,282,793
Edward A. Kangas		621,222,786		80,955,193		932,904		83,282,793
Ellen J. Kullman		700,258,706		1,996,450		855,727		83,282,793
Richard D. McCormick		676,210,337		26,027,653		872,893		83,282,793
Harold McGraw III		666,035,987		35,276,956		1,797,940		83,282,793
Richard B. Myers		695,087,294		6,372,664		1,650,925		83,282,793
H. Patrick Swygert		676,232,777		25,988,690		889,416		83,282,793
André Villeneuve		695,895,071		6,317,564		898,248		83,282,793
Christine Todd Whitman		698,767,978		2,736,706		1,606,199		83,282,793

2)	A proposal of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors to re-appoint the firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to serve as Independent Auditor until the next Annual Meeting of Shareowners in 2013. The proposal was approved and the results of the voting were as follows:


Votes For	Votes Against	Abstentions
777,149,745	8,272,837	971,094

3)	A proposal that shareowners approve on an advisory (non-binding) basis, the compensation of UTC’s Named Executive Officers as disclosed in UTC’s Proxy Statement dated February 24, 2012. The proposal was approved and the results of the voting were as follows:


Votes For	Votes Against	Abstentions	Broker Non-Votes
421,352,984	269,610,948	12,146,951	83,282,793

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.