Welcome to the Anixent 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Mr. Love, you may now begin.
Thank you. Good morning. I am Douglas Love, President and CEO of Anixon Biosciences. I'm very happy to welcome you to Anexon's 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Here to Anexon, we've made significant progress toward our goal of building a leading complement company.
And every day, we're sharply focused on advancing our mission to deliver transformative therapies for patients with complement driven autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases. We are conducting our annual meeting virtually. Before I call the meeting to order, I'd like to introduce to you the members of the Board and the business team who are present online with us today. The members of the Board participating online today are Tom Williams, Chairman of the Board William Carson, Joan Choi, Muneer Sethi, Ricky Stein and myself, Douglas Love. The other members of the company's leadership team joining us online today are Ms.
Jennifer, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of NXON. I would also like to introduce you to Katie Weschler of KPMG LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm as well as Kathleen Wales of Latham Watkins LLP, the company's outside legal counsel, both of whom are joining us online today. We have made available both the agenda for this meeting certain operating procedures under the materials button on the right bottom right hand side of your computer screen. In order to conduct an orderly meeting, we ask that participants abide by these procedures, and we appreciate your cooperation in this matter. The meeting will now officially come to order.
We will proceed with the formal business of the meeting as set forth in your notice of annual meeting and proxy statement. After the formal part of the meeting, we will provide time for appropriate questions. Will the secretary please report at this time with respect to the stockholders' list and the mailing of the notice of the meeting.
I have a complete list of the stockholders of record of the company's common stock on April 5, 2021, the record date for this meeting. This list of stockholders and the number of shares held by each such stockholder as of the record date is available on the web portal for any stockholder wishing to inspect it. An affidavit has been delivered certifying that on or about April 23, 2021, a notice of annual meeting of stockholders of the company was deposited in the U. S. Mail to all stockholders of record at the close of business on April 5, 2021.
At this time, I'd like to introduce Wendy Shiba, acting as Inspector of Election at this meeting. Ms. Sheba has taken and subscribed the customary oath of office to execute her duties with strict impartiality, and we will file this oath with the records of the meeting. Will the secretary please report at this time with respect to the existence of a quorum?
I have been informed by the Inspector of Election that proxies have been received for 28, 185, 464 of the 38, 240, 150 shares of common stock outstanding on the record date, which represents approximately 74% of the total number of outstanding shares. This constitutes a quorum for the meeting today, and we may now carry out the official business of the meeting.
Thank you. We will now proceed with the formal business of this meeting. There are 2 proposals to be considered by the stockholders at this meeting.
The polls open today, Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 9 o'clock am Pacific Time for voting on all matters to be presented. The polls will be closed to voting after we go through the matters to be voted on.
Great. The first item of business is the election of 2 Class 1 directors to hold office until 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. The nominees for Class 1 Director are William H. Carson and Muneer A. Sader.
Is there any discussion? Great. The second item of business today is the ratification of the audit committee selection of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. Is there any discussion? That was the final proposal for today's meeting.
The Secretary will now describe the voting procedures.
Stockholders who have sent in proxies or voted via telephone or the Internet and do not wish to change their vote do not need to take any further action. Any stockholder who has not yet voted or wishes to change their vote may do so by clicking on the voting button on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions there. Only stockholders of record on April 5, 2021 are eligible to vote at this meeting. We are now going to take a short pause to allow for any stockholders who have not yet voted to do so. The time is now 9:0:5 a.
M. And the polls are now closed for voting.
Thank you. May we have the preliminary results of the voting?
The preliminary report of the Inspector of Election covering the proposals presented at this meeting indicates that the proposal to elect William H. Carson and Muneer A. Satter as Class 1 directors of the company is carried. The selection of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021 is ratified. The final voting results will be set forth in the report of the Inspector of Election, which will be included as part of the record of this meeting.
We expect to report our final voting results on a current report on Form 8 ks to be filed with the SEC within 4 business days after the end of this meeting.
Thank you. This concludes the formal portion of today's meeting. Is there any discussion? Is there any opposition to concluding this meeting? This meeting is concluded.
We will now entertain any questions from the stockholders.
There are no further questions at this time. And this concludes Axon's 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. You may now disconnect.