Hello, welcome to Autodesk Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I'm Dave Gennarelli, Director of Investor Relations, I'm going to turn the call right over to Pascal DiFronzo, who is our General Counsel, he will lead us through this year's proposals voted on by our stockholders.
Thank you, Dave. I also would like to welcome you to Autodesk 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. As Dave mentioned, I'm Pascal DiFronzo. I'm Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Autodesk, I'll be conducting the formal business portion of the meeting today. Before we get started, I'd like to introduce our board of directors who are present with us today. Carl Bass, Crawford Beveridge, J. Hallam Dawson, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Mary McDowell, Charles Robel, Stacy Smith, and Steven West. I'd like to thank the board for their service and support in the past year. Now that we have finished with the introductions, I now call the meeting to order.
I have proof by affidavit from Broadridge Financial Solutions that notice of this meeting has been duly given and that a proxy statement and proxy card have been furnished or made available to all stockholders of record as of April 10, 2012. As the Inspector of Election, I have signed an oath of office. The affidavit of mailing and the oath of Inspector of Election will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. We've been informed by Broadridge that we have present in person and by proxy, a sufficient number of shares to constitute a quorum. I can tell you that the meeting is duly constituted. We will vote by proxy ballot today. If you have already turned in a proxy, it is not necessary to vote now because we will count your proxy.
If you did not turn in a proxy or if you wish to change your vote, please raise your hand so that we may give you a blank proxy card to use for voting. We will collect these ballots at the end of the voting portion of the meeting. It is now 3:03 P.M. on June 7, 2012, the polls for each matter to be voted on at this meeting are now open. The first item of formal business is the election of nine directors to serve until next year's annual meeting. The persons named in the proxy statement have been nominated to serve as directors of the company for the ensuing year. They are Carl Bass, Crawford Beveridge, J. Hallam Dawson, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Mary McDowell, Lorrie Norrington, Charles Robel, Stacy Smith, and Steven West. Those of you who are voting should mark your ballots now.
The next item of formal business is to ratify the appointment of the firm of Ernst & Young LLP as Autodesk independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2013. Those of you who are voting should mark your ballots now. The next item of business is to hold an advisory vote to approve the compensation of Autodesk named executive officers. Those of you who are voting should mark your ballots now. If you have voted today, please raise your hand so that we may collect your ballot and have it recorded by the Inspector of Election. It is now 3:05 P.M. on June 7, 2012, and the polls for each matter to be voted on at this meeting are now closed.
Based upon all the proxies and ballots received prior to commencement of the meeting and subject to final adjustment of the numbers for any ballots collected here today, I can tell you that all nine of the directors have been reelected to the board of directors to serve until the company's 2013 annual meeting of stockholders. The appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the current fiscal year has been ratified by a majority of the shares present in person or by proxy. The advisory vote regarding compensation of the company's named executive officers has been approved. This concludes the formal business of the meeting. We will now adjourn the formal portion of this meeting of stockholders. With the formal portion of the meeting concluded, I would like to entertain any questions that any stockholder may have.
With no further questions, this concludes this year's annual meeting. Thank you for attending.