Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Hello, and welcome to Allient Inc. annual meeting conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference over to Craig P. Mychajluk, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Yeah. Good morning, everyone. I'm Craig P. Mychajluk, investor relations for Allient Inc. I'm pleased to welcome you to the company 2026 virtual annual meeting of shareholders. Before we formally start the meeting, I wanna walk you through the procedures for the conduct of the meeting. As you can see, the agenda and the rules of conduct are available on the web portal. Regarding voting, you do not need to recast your vote today if you have already voted. However, if you'd like to vote today, you can do so by clicking on the voting button and following the instructions. Regarding questions, if you wish to submit a question, you can do so by clicking on the Q&A button and following the instructions. Questions pertinent to the meeting matters will be answered at the conclusion of the formal business of the meeting.
Any questions that cannot be answered during the meeting will be posted to our website or addressed separately. The polls are open now and will be closing shortly when the chairman announces they are closed. Now let me turn it over to Dick Warzala, Chairman of the Board, to begin the meeting. Dick?
Morning, everyone. It is my pleasure on behalf of the board of directors and officers of Allient Incorporated to welcome you and to express our appreciation for attending our 2026 virtual annual meeting, which I will now call to order. The board of directors fixed March 11, 2026 as the record date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at this meeting. The list of those shareholders is available to shareholders of record and may be inspected at any time during the meeting. A copy of this list has been on file at the office of the company for the past 10 days.
Mr. Nicholas Hoffman has been appointed secretary for the meeting and has provided the notice of internet availability and/or mailing of the notice of annual meeting, a proxy statement in the company's 2025 annual report, together with an affidavit of the mailing to our shareholders on or about March 27, 2026. These documents will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. Now we'd like to introduce Mr. Alex Collichio, who has been appointed inspector of elections for this meeting. Will the inspector now please report on whether a quorum is present?
Mr. Chairman, the total number of shares outstanding and entitled to vote at this meeting is 17,018,097. Of that number, approximately 15,208,958 shares, or approximately 89%, are represented at this meeting. Therefore, a quorum is present.
Proper notice of the meeting having been given and a quorum being present, we will open the meeting for business. As noted, the polls are open as well. There are three business items to be acted upon at the meeting this morning. The first matter is the proposal to elect Robert B. Engel, Richard D. Federico, Steven C. Finch, Nicole R. Tzetzo, Richard S. Warzala, and Michael R. Winter to the board of directors. The second matter is the proposal to provide an advisory vote on the approval of the compensation of our named executive officers. The third item is the proposal to ratify the appointment of the company's independent public accounting firm for 2026. I now declare the polls for 2026 annual stockholder meeting closed. Will the inspector of elections present the preliminary report of the vote?
Mr. Chairman, each nominee for director received a sufficient number of votes to be elected. The advisory vote on executive compensation has been approved, the appointment of Deloitte & Touche as the company's independent public accounting firm for 2026 has been ratified. Detailed vote tallies will be included in a Form 8-K to be filed by the company.
Thank you, Mr. Colicchio. I hereby declare that proposals presented to the shareholders have all been approved as required by law. Secretary is instructed to cause the report of the inspector to be affixed to the minutes of this meeting. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes the formal business which is scheduled to come before this meeting. The meeting is now adjourned. I will now ask Mr. Michaud to read any questions that may have been submitted by shareholders. For your information, Mr. Thomas T. Hann of Deloitte & Touche, our auditors, is present and has informed me that he has no statement. They will respond to appropriate questions, if any, which were submitted to the portal.
Mr. Warzala, there are no questions. Please proceed.
Thank you, Mr. Michaud. There being no further questions, I will declare the meeting concluded. I would like to thank everyone for joining us today. Take care.
The meeting is now concluded. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect.