The broker itself does not typically try to
solicit trade in a stock, which means your decision to buy and sell are up to you, and the broker just facilitates those decisions.
q Proxy
Solicited by the Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders — April 26, 2016 Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, Michelle M. Browdy and Christina M. Montgomery, or any of them with the power of substitution, are hereby appointed Proxies of the undersigned to vote all common
stock of International Business Machines Corporation owned on the record date by the + undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held
in the Savannah International
Trade & Convention Center, One International Drive, Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia 31402, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, or any adjournment or postponement thereof.