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Meeting Type:         Annual

     
 

 

For holders as of:    4/11/2012

      
 

 

Date:  6/5/2012      Time:  10 a.m., EDT

      
 

 

Location:    Dechert LLP

      
 

     1095 Avenue of the Americas

     28th Floor

     New York, NY 10036

 

      
   

 

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The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR all of the nominees in Proposal 1, and FOR Proposals 2 and 3.

       
 

 

  1.    Election of Directors

       
 

Nominees:

       
 

1a.    Salvatore Iannuzzi

 

1b.    John Gaulding

 

1c.    Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.

 

1d.    Cynthia P. McCague

 

1e.    Jeffrey F. Rayport

 

1f.    Roberto Tunioli

 

1g.    Timothy T. Yates

          
 

 

  2.

  

 

Ratification of the appointment of BDO USA, LLP as Monster Worldwide, Inc.’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012.

     
 

 

  3.

  

 

Advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation.