Good morning, and welcome to the Amprius Technologies, Inc. 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I'd like to turn the meeting over to Tom Stepien, Amprius Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead.
Good morning, everyone. On behalf of Amprius, welcome to our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I am Tom Stepien, the CEO of the company. I will conduct the business of this meeting. At this time, I will call the meeting to order. First, I would like to introduce the other members of our Board of Directors and executive team who are virtually present at the meeting today, namely Dr. Steven Chu and Kathleen Bayless.
On the executive side, we have Ricardo Rodriguez, Amprius' Chief Financial Officer, and Siyu Jiang, our VP of Legal Affairs. In addition, representatives of Baker McKenzie, our outside corporate counsel, and Deloitte & Touche, the company's independent registered public accounting firm, are also virtually present at today's meeting. I will now ask Ricardo Rodriguez to conduct the formal part of the meeting.
Thank you, Tom. Each of you should be able to view the agenda and rules of conduct for this meeting on the web portal. The rules of conduct have been established to provide for an orderly and informative meeting. We thank you for your cooperation in following them. If you would like to ask a question during today's meeting, you may type your question in the box provided on the web portal.
Questions that are germane to the meeting agenda will be addressed after the formal portion of the meeting has concluded. Per the agenda, our meeting today will address and vote on the matters described in the company's proxy statement dated April 28th, 2026. The meeting will end once voting has concluded. For today's meeting, I will also serve as the Inspector of the Election.
I have signed an oath of office, which will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. Notice of Amprius' 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders has been duly given in accordance with the company's bylaws and applicable law. Amprius' agents have certified that a notice of internet availability of proxy materials for today's meeting was mailed on or about April 28th, 2026 to stockholders of record as of April 13th, 2026.
We will file copies of the notice and related affidavit of mailing with the minutes of this meeting. Only stockholders of record as the close of business on April 13th, 2026, are entitled to vote at today's meeting. As of the close of business on April 13th, 2026, there were 140,807,061 shares of common stock outstanding, each entitled to one vote per share.
A complete list of stockholders of record as of that date has been prepared and certified by a registrar and transfer agent. This list has been available to stockholders for any purpose germane to this meeting for the past 10 days. As the Inspector of Election, I hereby report that as of today's meeting, more than a majority of the shares entitled to vote are represented either virtually or by proxy.
Based on that report, I hereby declare a quorum present and this meeting duly convened for purposes of transacting business. Let me briefly describe the voting procedures. If you have previously submitted a proxy and you do not intend to change your vote, it is not necessary that you complete another ballot. Your vote will be counted.
If you are eligible to vote and have not submitted your proxy, or if you want to change your vote, please vote using the Vote Here button on the web portal after our discussion of the proposals. As you know from the proxy statement, there are two proposals before us today. I will briefly describe the proposals before proceeding to voting. The first proposal is to elect two Class I directors.
The directors selected at today's meeting will hold office for a three-year term until their successors are elected and qualified at the 2029 annual meeting or until their earlier death, resignation, or removal. The two candidates who have been unanimously nominated by the board of directors are Kathleen Bayless and Tom Stepien. These nominees have indicated that they are able and willing to serve if elected. Information concerning the nominees is contained in the proxy statement.
The two nominees receiving the highest of four votes will be elected as directors. The Board recommends a vote of for the election of each of these nominees. The second proposal is to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the purpose of auditing the company's consolidated financial statements for the year ending December 31st, 2026. The Board's audit committee has appointed Deloitte as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2026.
Deloitte will audit our consolidated financial statements for 2026 and perform certain audit-related services. Deloitte may also perform certain non-audit related services that are pre-approved by the audit committee. Stockholder ratification of the selection of Deloitte is not required by our bylaws or any other applicable law. However, the Board is seeking ratification of Deloitte's selection as a matter of good corporate practice.
An affirmative vote by a majority of the voting power of the shares of our common stock virtually present or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on this proposal will be required for its approval. Our Board of directors recommends a vote for this proposal. We will now proceed with the voting on the proposals. It is 10:07 A.M. Pacific Time, the polls are now open.
As previously mentioned, if you have previously submitted a proxy card, it is not necessary for you to vote today unless you wish to change your vote. If you were a stockholder of record at the close of business on April 13th, 2026, and you desire to vote at today's meeting, please click on the Vote Here button on the web portal. It appears that all stockholders have submitted their proxies or voted through the web portal.
I now declare that polls closed at 10:08 A.M. Pacific Time. No additional proxies or votes will be accepted, nor will any changes or revocations to previously submitted proxies or votes be accepted. Based on preliminary voting results, each of the two Class I director nominees up for election at this meeting have been reelected, and Deloitte & Touche LLP has been ratified as Amprius independent registered public accounting firm for 2026.
We will publicly report the results of voting at today's meeting on a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission within four business days of today's meeting. This concludes the official business schedule for this meeting, and I now declare this meeting adjourned. At this time, we will take questions from our stockholders. There have been no questions submitted. I'd like to thank each of you for virtually attending today's meeting and for your continued support of Amprius. Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's annual meeting. You may now disconnect.