Hello, and welcome to the annual meeting of shareholders of SSR Mining Inc. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. If you participate in today's meeting and disclose personal information, you will be deemed to consent to the recording, transfer, and use of same. If you disclose personal information of another person in today's meeting, you will be deemed to represent and warrant to Computershare and the corporation that you first obtained all requirement consents for the disclosure, recording, transfer, and use of such personal information for all appropriate persons before your disclosure. During the meeting, we'll have a question and answer session. You can submit questions or comments at any time by clicking on the Q&A tab. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Mike Anglin. Sir, the floor is yours.
Thank you very much for that. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Mike Anglin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SSR Mining. I would like to welcome you to the company's 2023 annual meeting. The Board of Directors of the company has delegated to me the authority to lead the meeting of shareholders today. As the company's meeting is being held virtually, I would like to set out a few rules for the orderly conduct of the meeting. Questions can be submitted today by any registered shareholder or duly appointed proxyholder using the Q&A tab of the virtual meeting interface. Any questions regarding procedural matters or directly related to the motions before the meeting will be addressed after the presentation of all business items.
All other questions will be addressed during the question and answer period at the conclusion of the formal part of the meeting. When asking a question, please indicate your name and which entity you represent, if any. For the purpose of the meeting, voting on all matters will be conducted by electronic ballot. Please note, the polls are open for electronic voting now and will remain open until later in the meeting. Only registered shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders who have not voted in advance of the annual meeting may vote during this meeting. Importantly, if you are a registered shareholder or a duly appointed proxyholder and have already voted by submitting your proxy form or voting instructions form in advance of the meeting, it is not necessary for you to vote again today. With those guidelines in mind, we will now proceed with the formal portion of today's meeting.
I now ask that the company's 2023 annual meeting comes to order. For the purpose of this meeting, I appoint Michael J. Sparks, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer, and Corporate Secretary of the company, to act as Secretary. The company's registrar and transfer agent is Computershare Investor Services Inc. For the purposes of this meeting, I appoint Computershare through its representatives to act as scrutineer of the meeting, to compute the votes of the polls taken at this meeting, and to report to the chairman. The purpose of today's meeting is set out in the company's proxy statement, dated April 14th, 2023. Unless there are any objections, I will forego the reading of the notice of the meeting.
The scrutineer has provided information that the meeting, the chair of the meeting materials were mailed to all shareholders of common shares and all holders of CDIs on or about April 14, 2023, and a proper notice of the meeting has been given. Please note that copies of the meeting materials, including the proxy statement, are available on the company's website and the company's profile on EDGAR and on SEDAR. I have before me a preliminary scrutineer's report indicating that a sufficient number of shareholders and proxyholders present constitute a quorum. I therefore declare that a quorum of shareholders, as required under the company's articles, is present, and that the meeting is rightly called and properly constituted for the transaction of business. I will now deal with the business of this meeting.
The company's articles provide that, as chairman, I may propose a motion and that no motion need to be seconded. In the interest of expediting the business of this meeting, I will move all motions to be proposed. As the first item of business on the agenda for today's meeting, I now present the company's audited financial statements for the financial year ended December 31, 2022, together with the auditor's report to the shareholders. Copies of these documents have been mailed to the shareholders who requested them and are available on the company's website and the company's profile on EDGAR and on SEDAR. It is not proposed that they be read in this meeting. Any questions related to or discussion of the company's audited financial statements and auditor's reports will be deferred until the chief question and answer period at the conclusion of the formal part of today's meeting.
The next item of business is the election of directors. The nine directors to be elected by the shareholders of the company will hold office until the close of business of the first annual meeting of shareholders of the company following election, or until their successors are elected or appointed. The following individuals have been nominated as directors for the ensuing year or until their successors are elected or appointed. Are prepared to stand for election of directors, as set out in the company's proxy statement. Myself, A. Michael Anglin, Rod P. Antal, Thomas R. Bates, Jr., Brian R. Booth, Simon A. Fish, Leigh Ann Fisher, Alan P. Krusi, Kay Priestly, and Karen Swager. As the number of nominees is equal to the number of directors set for the company, I move to elect all of the nominees as directors of the company.
The company endorses a pay-for-performance approach for executive compensation in order to reinforce the linkages between compensation and the company's strategic objectives and risk management processes. A detailed discussion of the company's executive compensation program is provided in the company's proxy statement. The company has completed and conducted a say-on-pay advisory vote since 2016. The purpose of the say-on-pay advisory vote is to give shareholders a formal opportunity to provide views on the disclosed objectives of the executive compensation plan and on the plans themselves. As this is an advisory vote, the results will not be binding upon the board. However, the board will take results of the vote into account, as appropriate, when considering future compensation policies, procedures, and decisions, and in determining whether there is a need to significantly increase its engagement with shareholders on compensation and related matters.
As in past years, the company will disclose the results of the shareholders' advisory vote as part of its report on voting results for this meeting. I move to approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the company's approach to executive compensation, as set out in the company's proxy statement. The next item of business is the appointment of the company's independent registered public accounting firm. The company's current independent registered public accounting firm is PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, and management proposes the reappointment of PwC for the ensuing year. I move to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, as the independent public accounting firm of the company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, and until the next annual meeting. Unless there are questions on any of the motions before the meeting, we will now pause to finalize and submit all electronic ballots.
As mentioned, the polls are open now for voting by electronic ballot. As a reminder, if you have already voted in advance of the meeting, it is not necessary for you to vote again today. All registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders who have properly logged in with your control number or username and wish to vote, please register your vote at this time. We will provide approximately one more minute to complete the electronic ballots. Once the electronic ballot closes, your voting will automatically be submitted. I will ask that the scrutineer compile the report regarding the results of voting on all business matters. The results will be published by the company on EDGAR, on SEDAR, and by press release.
I've been advised by the scrutineer that the majority of the ballots and proxies deposited for the meeting have voted in favor of each of the foregoing resolutions of the meeting. I direct the results of the poll be included with the minutes of this meeting. Thank you. This completes the matters of business to be conducted as set out in the notice of the meeting. I therefore move that the meeting be terminated. As there is no further business to come before the meeting, I declare the formal part of the meeting to be conducted, to be concluded. I will now open the meeting for any questions. As a reminder, you can submit questions today by using the Q&A tab of the virtual meeting interface. We will now give attendees a moment to submit any questions. There being no further business or questions, we now conclude the meeting.
Thank you for your attendance today.
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the meeting. You may now disconnect.