Apologies. It looks like we're experiencing some technical difficulties. We're going to kick start the AGM again, Graham. Okay. Good morning. My name is Trinh Bui, and for those who don't know me, I'm the Company Secretary of Nido Education Limited. This meeting is the 2026 Nido Education Limited Annual General Meeting. The meeting's being held as a physical meeting at the company's registered office in Drummoyne, New South Wales. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, waters, and skies where we work and live across Australia. We pay our respect to elders, past and present. We celebrate the stories, culture, and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders of all communities who work and live on this land. How to ask questions.
As this is a physical meeting, only shareholders, validly appointed proxies, and corporate representatives who were given a blue or yellow card upon entry are entitled to ask questions. When the Chairman calls for questions, please raise your hand, state your name or the organization you represent before asking your question. How to vote today. For shareholders, proxies, and corporate representatives in person, you will be able to vote at any time during the AGM by completing the blue voting card that was provided to you upon admission. White cards are for visitors only and who cannot vote or ask questions today. Shareholders with a yellow card are not entitled to vote on the items of business. With the housekeeping matters now addressed, I will hand you over to Mr Kerr, our Chair for today, to commence the meeting formalities. Thank you.
Thanks very much, Trinh. Good morning and welcome. My name is Mark Kerr, and I'm the chairman of the board of directors of Nido, and I'll chair today's meeting. As explained by Trinh, today's meeting is being held as a physical meeting at the company's registered office. Welcome, you all, to this annual general meeting, and I now declare that we have a quorum of members present. I also now declare voting open on all items of business. The vote today will be conducted by way of a poll. This meeting is being convened in accordance with the company's constitution, the Corps Act and the ASX listing rules. I'd just like to point out, at this stage, we have no written questions to the auditors have been received. I'd now like to introduce my directors in attendance today.
I'm not sure that. Are we able to see them or when no one can see them? We've got Vanessa Porter, who's an independent director and chair of the Noms and Rem Committee. We have Mathew Edwards, our founder and managing director of Nido. We have Adam Lai, our executive director and CEO. Also, we've got Shara from our auditors, and Bart from MinterEllison, and we've got our company secretary, Trinh. Thank you everyone for attending. We also have representatives from Computershare, our share registry, and we have Maria, who's been appointed to conduct our poll for us, so thanks as our returning officer. We've got one apology from Joe Dicks, our independent non-executive director and chair of the Audit, and Risk and Compliance Committees. He's not here in person, but he's on the line to hear the meeting.
I'm pleased to advise that in addition to the members present, the company has received 30 valid proxy forms, that equate to some 33,833,000 shares, which represents some 14.91% of the issued share capital. A replacement notice of meeting was issued on May 1. The annual report, which contains the annual financial statements, the reports of the directors and auditors, were mailed to all shareholders, or you received them electronically. For all other shareholders, the report was made available on the company's website, on the ASX. Accordingly, I now declare the replacement notice of meeting be taken as read, and that the text of each resolution may be taken as read when each resolution is being considered by the meeting. In terms of discussion of any of the items of business of discussion, we will have questions at the close of 4A at the end of resolution 4A.
Voting on all items of business will be conducted by a poll. As set out in the replacement notice of the meeting, is to consider the ordinary business and the adoption of the Rem report, the re-election of Vanessa Porter, the election of Adam, and to approve the issue of securities under the Nido Education Equity Incentive Plan rules, and to approve the grant of premium options to Adam. A profile and background information on Vanessa and Adam is contained in the directors' report, which is part of the annual report. When wishing to discuss matters on any of the resolutions, would you please advise of your name, if a proxy, the name of the shareholder that you are representing. Yeah, have we got the slide one? We now table the financial statements of the company, the directors' report, the report of the auditor.
There will be no vote on this item, and it will be a discussion item. They were released to the ASX on February 25 and also contained in the company's 2025 annual report. As noted earlier, no written questions to the auditor have been received. The financial statements and reports are now open for discussion. Are there any questions for the company representatives or the auditor about these statements of general business of the company? I assume there are none online. No. No. No. All right. That's good. As there are no questions on the accounts and statements, I'll now move to the consideration of resolutions one, two, three, four , and 4A, each of which will be proposed by an ordinary resolution requiring a simple majority of votes cast to be carried. Resolution one, the adoption of the Rem report.
The details of this resolution are displayed with the proxy votes received. Everyone's got time to read those. Are there any questions about this resolution? I assume there are no questions online.
No, some people are voting.
Right. There being no further questions or questions at all, please record your vote now if you've not had already voted. You voted, have you? Doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. Right. There we go. All right. That ceases the vote on that resolution. Let's go to resolution two, the election of Vanessa Porter as a director standing for re-election. Congratulations, Vanessa. Thank you standing again. The votes there, very healthy vote in favor of Vanessa. Are there any questions about this resolution? As there are no questions, please record your vote now if you've not have already voted. I think I can safely say congratulations, Vanessa. Thank you.
Resolution three, the election of Adam as the director. As noted in the replacement notice of meeting, Adam was appointed as a director on the 1st of August 2025, retires as a director and is standing for election as required under the listing rules. Very healthy, Adam. As there are no questions, could you please record your vote now if you've not already voted. Thanks very much, Adam. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you for your reappointment. Let's move to resolution four, which is the renewal of the company's ESOP. Details are displayed on the screen, and the votes are there for everyone to see. Are there any questions? There being no questions, could you please record your vote if you've not already voted. Resolution four. Is this 4A? It is 4A, the approval of granted premium options to Adam.
The details are displayed on the screen. There are no questions from the floor. Please record your vote now if you've not have already voted. All right. Let cease voting. I'd like to advise that voting on all resolutions will close shortly. I'll provide you all with a few moments now to finish your voting. You're the only one voting. There you go. As all the shareholder votes have now been collected, I'll declare the poll closed, and the results will be announced later to the ASX today. This completes the formal business of meeting. If there are any remaining questions, we will take these now. As there are no questions, I now declare the meeting closed. Thank you very much for your attendance, and thanks, Trinh, for organizing the meeting.
Thank you