Good morning and welcome to the Annual Stockholders Meeting of SmileDirectClub. I'm David Katzmann, Chairman of the Board and CEO of SmileDirectClub. I hope that you and your families are well and I thank you for joining us on our call today. I officially called this meeting to order. As the world remains cautious more than a year after the onset of the pandemic, we are hosting our twenty twenty one annual meeting virtually, which allows us to be more inclusive and reach a greater number of our stockholders.
We will conduct the business portion of our meeting first and then after the preliminary voting results are announced, we will have a question and answer session at the end of the meeting. I would now like to introduce our Chief Legal Officer, Susan Greenspan Ronald, who will act as Secretary of the meeting.
Thank you, David, and good morning, everyone. In today's meeting, we will follow the order of the business set forth in our proxy statement. You will be asked to vote to elect our Class II directors of the Board and to ratify the appointment of our independent registered accounting firm, Ernst and Young. Before we commence the formal part of our meeting, I would like to introduce the members of our Board of Directors in addition to myself. David Katzmann is currently SmileDirectClub's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.
Steven Katzmann is our chief operating officer in addition to being a director. Alexander Fenkell is a cofounder of SmileDirectClub in addition to being a director. Jordan Katzmann is also a cofounder of SmileDirectClub in addition to being a director. Senator William H. Frist, MD, is a surgeon, former majority leader of the U.
S. Senate and a partner at Cressy and Company, a private health services investment firm and a member of our Board of Directors. Carol J. Hamilton is Group President of Acquisitions for L'Oreal USA and a member of our Board of Directors. Richard F.
Wallman is the former Chief Financial Officer of Honeywell International and a member of our Board of Directors. And Ted Ward is the former Chief Marketing Officer of GEICO and a member of our Board of Directors. You're also joined here today by Kim Holloman from Ernst and Young, our independent auditors. Ms. Holloman will be available during the question and answer session after the formal portion of the meeting to respond to questions.
And finally, we are joined by Jim Rait from American Election Services, which has been appointed the Independent Inspector of Election for this meeting. Mr. Rait has taken the Oath of Inspector of Election earlier today. We will now commence the formal portion of today's meeting. After the formal portion of our meeting has been adjourned, we will provide a limited period of time for general questions.
Only validated stockholders are permitted to ask questions in the designated field on the web portal. In order to keep the meeting orderly and enable us to answer as many questions as possible, please note that you will be limited to one question and that questions on similar topics may be combined and answered together. Only questions that are appropriate for the meeting will be addressed. Also note that this meeting is being recorded. However, no one attending the meeting is permitted to use any audio recording device.
The Board of Directors fixed 04/16/2021 as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting. An affidavit has been delivered by Broadridge attesting that the notice of meeting was duly improperly mailed and made available on the Internet to all stockholders of record as of the record date. These documents will be filed with the records of this meeting. The stockholder list shows that as of the record date, there were 118,149,119 shares of Class A common stock and 269,272,682 shares of Class B common stock respectively outstanding and entitled to vote at this meeting. We are informed by the Inspector of Elections that represented at this meeting in person or by proxy is more than a majority of the voting power of all issued and outstanding Class A and Class B common stock voting together that are entitled to vote as of the record date.
Thus, a quorum is present for purposes of transacting business.
Now, I will present the matters to be voted upon at today's meeting. Proposal one is the election of directors. The current board has nominated and recommends a vote for three current directors, Alex Finkel, Doctor. William Frist and Richard Wallman. They are to serve as Class II directors for a term of three years until the twenty twenty four annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
Proposal two is the ratification of Ernst and Young as the company's independent registered accounting firm for fiscal year ending 12/31/2021. The audit committee has appointed Ernst and Young subject to a stockholder ratification and the Board recommends a vote for the appointment. As discussed in the proxy statement, advanced written notice in accordance with our bylaws is required from any stockholder seeking to present any business or proposal at the annual meeting and no such notice was received. The polls are now open. Stockholders who have not yet voted or wish to change their vote may do so now by clicking on the voting buttons on the web portal and following the instructions there.
Stockholders who have previously sent in proxy cards or already voted by telephone or the Internet and do not want to change their vote, do not need to take any further action. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I now declare the polls for the twenty twenty one Annual Stockholder Meeting closed. Susan, do we have preliminary voting results?
We do. We have been informed by the Inspector of Elections that the preliminary vote report shows that each of the nominees for the election to the Board as Class II directors has been duly elected, and Ernst and Young has been ratified as the company's independent accountant for fiscal year 2021. We will be reporting the final vote results in a Form eight ks to be filed within four business days. There being no further business to come before the meeting, the twenty twenty one Annual Meeting of Stockholders of SmileDirectClub is now adjourned.
Okay. Now we'll open up the meeting for stockholder questions that are being entered today on the web portal. Please note that to enable us to answer as many questions as possible for the time allowed, you will be limited to one question and only questions that are appropriate for the meeting will be addressed. As a reminder, questions on similar topics may be combined and answered together.
At this time, we've received no questions germane to the meeting today. So our question and answer session is now concluded. I want to thank everyone here for your attendance at today's annual meeting. As always, to the extent that you have any further questions, please direct them to our investor relations team using the contact info provided on our website. And we thank you for your continued support of SmileDirectClub.
Thanks, everybody.