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Item
5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Effective September 11, 2017, the Board of Directors of Convergys Corporation (the “Company”) increased the number of directors to 10 and appointed Robert E. Knowling, Jr. as a director for a term expiring at the 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
Mr. Knowling, 62, has more than 30 years of experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors. He is currently Chairman of Eagles Landing Partners, which specializes in helping senior management teams formulate strategy, lead organizational transformations, and re-engineer businesses. Mr. Knowling previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Telwares, a provider of telecommunications expense management solutions, from
2005 to 2009, Chief Executive Officer of the New York Leadership Academy from 2001 to 2005, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SimDesk Technologies, Inc. from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Knowling currently serves on the Board of Directors of Roper Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ROP).
The Company is not aware of any arrangement or understanding between Mr. Knowling and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Knowling was selected as a director. Neither Mr. Knowling nor any of his immediate family members has been a party to any transaction or currently proposed transaction with the Company that is reportable under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. In connection with his election to and service on the Board of Directors, Mr. Knowling will be paid in accordance with
the Company’s standard compensation arrangements for non-employee directors, which are described under “Director Compensation” in the Company’s definitive proxy statement for the Company’s 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 17, 2017.
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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.
