Hello, and welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Camden National Corporation. It is my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Marie McCarthy, Director and Chair of Camden National Corporation.
Thank you, and good morning. My name is Marie McCarthy, Director and Chair of the Board of Directors of Camden National Corporation. I want to welcome you to our 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. I'd like to call the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to order and welcome all of you. Also present today are Simon Griffiths, President and Chief Executive Officer; Mike Archer, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Brandon Boey, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, who will record minutes of today's meeting and serve as the Inspector of Election. Mike Grossman from RSM, our independent registered public accounting firm, and Jared Fishman from Sullivan & Cromwell, our external counsel, are also present on the telephone.
This year, we again use the SEC's notice and access rules that allow us to furnish our proxy materials over the internet to our shareholders instead of mailing paper copies of those materials to each shareholder. Notice of this meeting containing instructions on how to access our proxy materials and vote was mailed on or about April 3rd, 2026 to all shareholders of record as of March 25, 2026. Shareholders who have logged into the meeting virtually with a control number are able to submit questions and vote online. Also, the minutes from last year's annual meeting of shareholders are available for inspection on the annual meeting website. Mr. Boey has reported that there are more than 14 million shares of common stock represented at this meeting, which constitutes approximately 83% of the outstanding shares entitled to vote here today.
Because holders of the majority of the shares entitled to vote at this meeting are present by proxy and a quorum is present, I declare this meeting to be duly convened for purposes of transacting the business described in our proxy materials and such other business as may properly come before us. Please note that the polls are still open for shareholders to vote. Shareholders of record who have joined the meeting virtually by logging in with a control number and who have not yet cast a vote via proxy or the virtual meeting portal or who wish to change a vote may do so in the virtual meeting portal. Remember that if you have already sent in your proxy card or voted by Internet or telephone, your shares have been voted accordingly.
You do not need to vote today unless you are voting for the first time or want to change your previous vote. The polls will be closing in a few minutes, and I ask you to submit your vote now if you have not already done so in order for your vote to be counted. The order of business for this meeting will be as follows. The formal meeting, including presentation of proposals to be considered and voted upon. The voting. Voting results. An adjournment of the formal meeting, followed by a brief update from Simon Griffiths, the company's President and Chief Executive Officer. Following the completion of our formal meeting and Simon's remarks, we will hold a question and answer session.
If you are a shareholder who has joined the virtual meeting using a control number and you have a question you would like to ask, please do so by typing it into the question box on the virtual meeting portal at any time. Questions from shareholders must address only the proposals under discussion. General questions from shareholders will be held until the general question and answer session following Simon's remarks. Questions from multiple shareholders on the same topic or that are otherwise related may be grouped, summarized, and answered together. We remind you that personal matters and claims are not appropriate subjects for public discussion at today's meeting, and questions relating to those subjects will not be addressed. If you need assistance with a personal financial matter, please contact our customer service team, and they will be happy to help.
The board of directors has proposed three matters to be considered at the annual meeting. Please note that the polls will be closed once I finish discussing these proposals. Again, any final vote should be cast now. The first proposal to be voted upon is the election of 11 directors, Craig N. Denekas, Simon R. Griffiths, Rebecca Hatfield, Larry Haynes, S. Catherine Longley, Raina L. Maxwell, Marie J. McCarthy, Robert D. Merrill, James H. Page, Robin A. Sawyer, and Carl J. Soderberg to the company's board of directors. Each candidate will be elected to serve for a term of one year and until such director's successor is duly elected and qualified. The second proposal to be voted upon is a non-binding advisory vote on the compensation of the company's named executive officers, also called a say-on-pay proposal.
The third and last proposal to be voted upon is the ratification of the appointment of RSM US LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. Mr. Boey, have any questions come in from shareholders regarding these proposals?
No questions regarding the proposals have been submitted.
Thank you. It is now time to move on to the voting. Please note that we are about to close the polls for voting at this meeting. We remind you again that if you have already sent in your proxy card or voted by Internet or telephone, your shares have been voted accordingly. You do not need to vote today unless you are voting for the first time or want to change your previous vote. I now declare the polls closed and direct the Inspector of Election to tabulate the voting results. Mr. Boey, can you please report on the results of the voting?
Yes. Based upon the preliminary totals, all 11 nominees for election to the Board of Directors have been elected to serve for a term of 1 year. The non-binding say-on-pay proposal has been approved. The appointment of RSM US LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026 has been ratified. The final vote tallies will be included in the company's Form 8-K, which will be filed with the SEC within the next four business days.
Thank you, Mr. Boey. With the completion of voting, our formal meeting is now adjourned and is closed to further business. I will now turn the meeting over to Simon Griffiths, our President and CEO.
Thank you, Marie, and good morning, everyone. I'd like to remind you that any forward-looking statements made during today's meeting are subject to risk and uncertainty. Factors that could materially change our current forward-looking assumptions are described in this slide and in our SEC filings. You're encouraged to review these factors. I'd like to start my presentation on slide seven and just remind and reiterate the deeply engaged, talented board of directors that we have here at Camden National Corporation. We have a strong partnership with the management team. On the next slide, just a recap of the tremendous momentum we're building throughout New England. Really have been excited by the team in New Hampshire and just seeing strong momentum across the business. We have a tremendous franchise across 72 banking centers and largest publicly traded bank headquartered now in Northern New England.
On the following slide, we talk about our strategy really grounded in a growth-oriented strategy focused on our customers and our community and creating tremendous differentiation, with focus on digital and advice. That is certainly proving out to be tremendously successful and seeing a lot of good progress. On the next slide, we are advancing our digital services. Here are just a couple of good examples. We have Round Up to Save & Donate. This is a tremendous opportunity to create engagement with our customers and our community. We also have Family Wallet, which is a tremendous youth banking platform that allows parent-controlled debit cards and a kid-friendly mobile app to build healthy money habits early on. Again, this is a tremendous focus of us and we're getting a good, strong engagement across our customer base.
On the next slide, we talk about our focus on community, really at the center of everything that Camden National Corporation does. This is just one example of how we're engaged in our community. We had all of our stakeholders participate in a community day, engaging with 60 organizations and over 2,000 hours of community service. It was tremendous fun. I think we all had a great day and a really big impact for the nonprofits that we were supporting. We're also receiving a lot of awards and recognition across multiple different organizations. Here are justthree examples. We're a leader in serving small business and Lender at Work for Maine award from the Finance Authority, which was great to receive. We also received industry-leading customer satisfaction.
We're also top employer in engagement, 4.41 out of five for Gallup. We're also awarded by Forbes, the 2026 America's Best Banks List, which was great to receive. I'd now like to turn to any questions or comments that you may have. We will proceed with the general question and answer portion of our meeting. If you're attending the meeting virtually, you may enter your question in the question box on your screen. We'll take a moment to assemble our list of questions that we receive. As there are no questions, I would like to just thank you again for your time today. We value your ongoing support of Camden National Corporation.
This concludes today's meeting. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect and have a wonderful rest of your day.