Welcome and thank you for joining us at Autodesk twenty nineteen Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I'm Pascal DiFranco, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, and I'll be conducting the formal business portion of the meeting today. After we complete the formal portion of the meeting, there will be an opportunity for questions. As a reminder, the meeting is being webcast live and will be available for replay later today. Before we get started, I'd like to introduce the members of our Board of Directors standing for reelection: Andrew Anagnoz Karen Blazing Reid French Blake Irving Mary McDowell Stephen Milligan Lori Norrington, Betsy Raffel and Stacy Smith.
I'd like to thank the Board for their service and support in the past year. In particular, I'd like to acknowledge and thank Crawford Beverage, who is retiring from the Board after twenty six years. Crawford has made immeasurable contributions during his tenure on the Autodesk Board and provided critical leadership throughout our history. On behalf of Autodesk, I thank Crawford for his service and wish him well in retirement. Now that we have finished the introductions, I call the meeting to order.
I approved 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 1639. As the Inspector of Election, I've 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 have been informed by Broadridge that we have present in person and by proxy a sufficient number of shares to constitute a quorum. So 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, then 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 now so that we may give you a written ballot to use for voting. We will collect these ballots at the end of the voting portion of the meeting. It is now 03:02 on June 1239, and the polls for each matter to be voted on at this meeting are now open.
The first item of business is the election of nine directors to serve until next year's annual meeting. The person's name and the proxy statement have been nominated to serve as directors of the company for the ensuing year. They are Andrew Anagnost, Karen Blazing, Reed French, Blake Irving, Mary McDowell, Stephen Milligan, Lori Norrington, Betsy Raffel and Stacy Smith. 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 and Young as Autodesk independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending 01/31/2020.
Those of you who are voting should mark your ballots now. The next item of business is to hold a nonbinding vote to approve the compensation of Autodesk's named executive officers. Those of you who are voting should mark your ballots now. If you had 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 03:03 on June 1239, and the polls reached matter to be voted on at this meeting are now closed.
Based upon all the proxies and ballots received prior to the 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 nominated directors have been elected to the Board of Directors to serve until the company's twenty twenty Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The appointment of Ernst and Young as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the current fiscal year has been ratified. The non binding 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 this Annual Meeting of Stockholders and open it up for questions.
Thank you.