Hello, and welcome to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Amerant Bancorp Inc. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Frederick Copeland, Chairman of Amerenit Bancorp. Mr. Copeland, the floor is yours.
Thank you. Good morning. I'm Frederick Copeland and as Chairman of the Board of Directors, I'm Please to welcome you to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Emirates Bancorp, Inc. On this occasion, as the The country and the world continues to deal with the consequences of the COVID virus pandemic, we are holding this meeting as we did last year in a virtual Before we start with our official business, I would like to express on behalf of our Board And management, our gratitude to Rusty Constantino and Tony DiAmil, 2 of our long standing directors who have communicated to the They've made significant contributions to the Board and to the company over many years, and I'd like to thank them for their dedication to the company and their wise counsel. Also, I'd like to welcome Dolores Laar to her 1st annual meeting as a Director.
Mrs. Laar was appointed to the Board in April, Having served for many years in prominent leadership roles in other financial institutions, she brings significant experience as a Senior Officer And as you know, Miller Wilson has retired from his role as Amarin's CEO and will continue fortunately as a Board member. And Mr. Jerry Plush Became the new Vice Chairman and CEO in March. Miller was CEO of the company and the bank for over 10 years And oversaw significant growth during that period as well, importantly, as the transition of our company from a private publicly traded institution.
We are pleased that he has agreed to continue as a Director. It is now a little after 8 a. M, and I am calling the meeting to order. Ivan Trujillo, our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, will act as secretary of the meeting. I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce the other members of our Board here with Today, our Chief Executive Officer, Jerry Plush and Directors, Miguel Angel Capri Las In addition, I would like to introduce our 4 senior officers of the company: our Chief Operations Officer, Alfonso Figuerelo Our Chief Business Officer, Miguel Palacios our Chief Risk Officer, Alberto Caprias And our Chief Financial Officer, Carlos Infigliola.
Also present today and representing RSM US Jeanette Roca, a Computershare Trust Company, the company's transfer agent is present today Our company has been provided with an affidavit by Computershare certifying that notice of today's meeting was mailed to shareholders on April 27, 2021. A list of shareholders of record as of April 15, 2021, And entitled to vote at this meeting has been open for inspection for 10 days prior to this meeting and is available for inspection for shareholders during this meeting. The Inspector of Election has reported that as of the 29,000,645 outstanding The company's Class B common stock outstanding as of April 15, 2021 record date, 26,347,601 Class A Shares or approximately 91% of the Class A shares outstanding and 6,631,967 Class B Shares The company's Class A common stock shareholders are entitled to one vote The company's Class B common Stock shareholders are entitled to oneten of a vote per share, voting together with the Class A common stock shareholders Only on proposal 2, that is to ratify the appointment of RSM US LLP as our independent With the total votes of the shares of Class A common stock represented at today's meeting in person or by proxy, We have constituted a quorum with respect to Proposal 1 to elect Combining the total votes of the shares of Class A common stock and the shares of Class B common stock represented at Today's meeting, we have also constituted a quorum with respect to Proposal 2.
Having confirmed that we have a quorum for both proposals, the agenda for today's meeting is available in a link in the virtual meeting site. It is our intention to conduct this meeting in accordance with that agenda. Shareholders may ask questions by calling the telephone numbers listed and following the instructions detailed Shareholders may also submit questions or comments by clicking on the message icon Located slightly left of the center of the top of the screen of the virtual meeting site. We intend to answer pertinent questions Our first item of business is proposal 1, the election of directors. The following 10 nominees are standing for reelection to the Board.
Frederick Copeland, Gerald Plush, Miguel Caprias, Pamela Dana, Dolores Laar, Gustavo Materrette, John Quill, Guillermo Viard, Information with respect to the 10 nominees Our second item of business is Proposal 2, The ratification of RSM US LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. Management statement of support of this proposal is set forth in the proxy statement. If you've already voted by proxy, you do not need to take any further action to vote your shares unless you want to unless you wish to change your vote. If you're logged into the virtual meeting as a shareholder and wish to revoke your proxy And vote your shares electronically during the virtual meeting. Or if you have not voted, you may do so by clicking on the The time is 8 11 a.
M. And the polls are closed. I'm now asking the Inspector of Election to tabulate the I will now report the preliminary results of voting. Inspector of Election has reported, One, that each of the nominees for Director named in the proxy statement receive the affirmative vote or plurality of votes cast by the company's Class A shareholders and has therefore been duly elected And 2, that the Class A and Class B shareholders have ratified by the affirmative vote of a majority of votes The appointment of RSM US LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm Our formal business has therefore been concluded, and I declare this portion of the meeting adjourned. We will be pleased to answer questions asked or submitted by the shareholders through the meeting center site.
At this time, the company or RSM will answer questions by the shareholders. Catherine, were there any are there any, shareholders waiting on the phone to ask questions?
There are no questions on the phone lines.
Okay. There were no questions submitted in writing either. Okay. There being no questions, we thank you all