I think it's a few minutes past the time here. We're good to proceed.
Thank you. Gavin, just so you know, Bruno Guicardi, I don't know if you know him, and Silvio Meira, they joined the meeting.
Yes. We have Bruno Guicardi and Silvio Meira, yes.
Okay. Anyone else?
Yeah, we have participants here connected, Natalie, other people that they still don't show up for us here on, you see on the participants list. You can see their names.
Okay. That's good. Good morning and welcome to CI&T's annual general meeting. The meeting will now come to order. I'm Brenno Raiko de Souza, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and I thank you all for coming here today. As the Chairman of the Board of the company, I'll act as Chairman of the meeting, while Gavin will act as the secretary of the meeting. Shareholders should not address the meeting until recognized. Should you desire to ask a question or speak during the meeting, please raise your hand. After being recognized, please identify yourself and your status as shareholder or representative of a shareholder. Then state your point or ask your question. We ask you to restrict your remarks to the item that is before us.
Shareholders who are attending the meeting virtually and wish to submit a question during the meeting, please click on messaging icon at the top left side of your screen. Type your question into the text box, then click on send icon at the right of that text box. Thank you for cooperation of these rules. I'll ask the secretary to give the update on the qualification of this meeting to proceed.
Thank you, Brenno. We do have 98.51% of the voting power of shareholders attending the meeting. That's 1,141,049,025 shares participating on the meeting. We're good to proceed in terms of representation here.
Thank you. The meetings are lawfully convened and ready to transact business. You have received a copy of meeting notice, which is also the agenda of this meeting, which includes the materials to be submitted to vote of the shareholders. At this time, the polls are now open. I'll ask any shareholder who has not yet turned in their proxy and wishes to do that, it is time to raise your hand, and then I will collect your proxy. Shareholders who have sent in proxies do not need to take any further action at this time. We now proceed to the matters to be voted on. The first item of business is a proposal to resolve as ordinary resolution that the company financial statements and the auditor's report for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2021 be approved and ratified.
Is there any discussion concerning the first proposal? The second item of business is a proposal to resolve as an ordinary resolution that the CI&T Inc. 2022 U.S. Equity Incentive Plan, in the form uploaded to the company's website and accessible using the link containing the summary of CI&T Inc. 2022 U.S. Equity Incentive Plan, attached as Exhibit A to the AGM notice and approved by resolutions of the company's Board of Directors passed on May 31, 2022, be and hereby approved and confirmed, and where necessary, ratified that each director or officer of the company be and hereby authorized to take any and every action that might be necessary, appropriate or desirable to effect this resolution as such director or officer in his or her absolute discretion thinks fit. Is there any discussion concerning the second proposal?
I hereby declare the polls closed. The secretary will now tabulate the votes and report the preliminary results before the closing of the meeting.
We have already the votes tabulated, Brenno, so we may proceed here.
The floor is open for questions and answers. If you'd like to address the meeting, please stand and identify yourself and tell us whether you're a shareholder appearing on proxy, the number of shares of the company that you represent. If attending the meeting virtually, please click on the messaging icon at top left of your screen. Type your questions into the text box, then click send icon on the right of such text box. Are there any questions or matters that any of the shareholders would like to present? There are no further questions or comments. I have been advised by the secretary that the tallies are now available, and I'll ask the secretary to read them.
On the proposal to approve and ratify the company's financial statements for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2021, the proposal has received the majority of the votes cast from the holders of shares present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the approval of the company's financial statements for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2021. For the first item, we'll have approval of 1,140,990,600 shares. That's equivalent to 98.5% approval rate. And also, for the second item, we also have approval of 1,140,869,176 shares, also equivalent to 98.5% of the voting power.
For the final results of the shareholders vote, reflecting all proxies received by mail through the close of this meeting, and any votes cast in person during this meeting with respect to the proposal, will be included in the minutes of this meeting, and will be published in a Form 6-K after the final results are known, and will be available upon request.
Thank you, Secretary. This meeting is now concluded, and I wanna thank you all for attending today's meeting and the support you have shown on CI&T. Thank you.
Okay. Thank you, Breno. Thank you all for attending the meeting today.
Thank you.
Thank you, everybody.
Cheers.
Thanks, everyone.