Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Chris Dean, the Chair of the Board of Directors of a.k.a. Brands Holding Corp. I would like to welcome you to the annual meeting of stockholders of the company. I will act as Chair of this meeting. I now call the meeting to order. In order to conduct an orderly meeting and give all stockholders an opportunity to participate, we will follow the agenda and the rules of conduct that are posted for stockholders on the virtual meeting portal. If you wish to ask a question, please enter your question at any time during the meeting in the box labeled Ask a Question and then click Submit. Questions must be relevant to the business of the company or the conduct of the meeting. We will respond to as many questions as possible during the Q&A portion of this meeting.
The recording of this meeting is prohibited. Now I would like to welcome the other members of the board who are attending this meeting. Wesley Bryett, Ilene Eskenazi, Sourav Ghosh, Matthew Hamilton, Myles McCormick, Jill Ramsey, and Kelly Thompson. I would also like to welcome our other executive officers who are attending this meeting. Ciaran Long, our Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Grant, our Chief Financial Officer, Michael Trembley, our Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations, and K.C. White, our Chief Legal Officer and Head of People, who will also act as Secretary of this meeting. Also joining us is Wendy Shiba, a representative of Broadridge Financial Solutions, who will act as the Inspector of Election for this meeting. Finally, Jessica Allen from PricewaterhouseCoopers is also in attendance. At this time, I call upon K.C. White.
White to establish that the meeting has been duly called and that a quorum is present.
Thank you, Chris. The board picks March 30th, 2026, as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting. Equiniti Trust Company LLC, the company's transfer agent, has provided a list of stockholders of record at the close of business on the record date. This list is available to stockholders of record on the virtual meeting portal. Broadridge Financial Solutions also provided an affidavit of mailing attesting to the fact that the proxy statement and the accompanying proxy card was mailed to all stockholders of record on April 15, 2026, and reports that stockholders owning at least a majority of the voting power entitled to vote are present in person or by proxy. Accordingly, Chris, a quorum is present.
On the basis of the Secretary's report, the meeting is duly convened. The polls will open when all the proposals have been presented and will close immediately prior to the announcement of the preliminary results. K.C., please present the proposals.
Thank you, Chris. Proposal number one is for the election of the following nominees to serve on the board as Class II directors and to hold office until the company's 2029 annual meeting of stockholders. Wesley Bryett, Sourav Ghosh, Kelly Thompson. All nominees currently are members of the board. Proposal number two is to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31st, 2026.
Thank you, K.C. The company has not received any advance notice from any stockholder, as required by its bylaws, of any other matter to be considered at today's meeting. No other proposals may be properly introduced by stockholders. I now declare the polls open for voting. Any stockholder who has not yet voted or wishes to change their vote may do so by clicking on the voting button on the virtual meeting portal and following the instructions in there. Stockholders who have sent in proxies or voted by telephone or the internet and do not want to change their votes do not need to take any further action. If any stockholder wishes to comment on or raise any questions regarding the proposals now being voted on, you may now submit such comment or question by entering it in the box labeled Ask a Question and then clicking Submit.
There being no comments or questions on the proposals, and now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I declare the polls for the meeting closed. The next item on the agenda is the preliminary report of the Inspector of Election. Any votes submitted before the polls close but not reflected in the preliminary report will be reflected in the final report of the Inspector of Election. I call upon the Secretary to present the preliminary report of the Inspector of Election.
Chris, the Inspector of Election has presented the preliminary report informing that the three director nominees have been duly elected and the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers to serve as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31st, 2026, has been duly ratified. The Inspector of Election certificate and report on the final tabulation of the votes will be annexed to the minutes of this meeting. Final results will also be published in a Form 8-K.
Thank you, K.C. I am not aware of any other business that should be brought before this meeting, and accordingly, I adjourn this meeting. This concludes the formal portion of the 2026 annual meeting. We will now begin the question and answer period. K.C., will you please read for the meeting any questions submitted by stockholders through the meeting portal?
Chris, no stockholders have submitted questions.
There being no questions, our program for the day is concluded. Thank you all for attending today's meeting and for your continuing support of a.k.a. Brands Holding Corp.
This concludes today's meeting. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect and have a wonderful rest of your day.