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PROPOSAL 1:
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Nominees
Our Board of Directors currently consists of seven members. Pursuant to the terms of TripAdvisor’s bylaws,
each director serves for a one-year term from the date of his or her election and until such director’s successor is
elected or until such director’s earlier resignation or removal. The Board of Directors has nominated the
following directors and recommends that each be elected to serve a one-year term and until such director’s
successor shall have been duly elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier resignation or removal:
Gregory B. Maffei
Stephen Kaufer
Jonathan F. Miller
Jeremy Philips
Christopher W. Shean
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Robert S. Wiesenthal
TripAdvisor’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the holders of TripAdvisor
common stock, acting as a single class, are entitled to elect a number of directors equal to 25% of the total
number of directors, rounded up to the next whole number, which is currently two directors. The Board has
designated Messrs. Wiesenthal and Philips as nominees for the positions on the Board to be elected by the
holders of TripAdvisor common stock voting as a separate class.
Pursuant to a Governance Agreement among TripAdvisor and Liberty, dated December 20, 2011 (the
“Governance Agreement”), Liberty has the right to nominate up to a number of directors equal to 20% of the
total number of the directors on the Board of Directors (rounded up to the next whole number if the number of
directors on the Board of Directors is not an even multiple of five) for election to the Board of Directors and has
certain other rights regarding committee participation, so long as certain stock ownership requirements applicable
to Liberty are satisfied. Liberty has designated Messrs. Maffei and Shean as its nominees to the Board of
Directors.
Although management does not anticipate that any of the nominees named above will be unable or
unwilling to stand for election, in the event of such an occurrence, proxies may be voted for a substitute nominee
designated by the Board of Directors.
Required Vote
Election of Messrs. Maffei, Kaufer, Shean, Miller and Ms. Singh Cassidy as directors requires the
affirmative vote of a plurality of the total number of votes cast by the holders of shares of TripAdvisor common
stock and Class B common stock, present in person or represented by proxy, voting together as a single class.
Election of Messrs. Wiesenthal and Philips as directors requires the affirmative vote of a plurality of the
total number of votes cast by the holders of shares of TripAdvisor common stock, present in person or
represented by proxy, voting together as a separate class.
For the election of the directors, abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect because approval by a
certain percentage of voting stock present or outstanding is not required.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THAT STOCKHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE
ELECTION OF EACH OF THE NOMINEES FOR DIRECTOR NAMED ABOVE.
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