Good day, and welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders for DT Midstream. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. David Slater, DT Midstream Executive Chairman and CEO. Mr. Slater, please go ahead.
Good morning, welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of DT Midstream, Inc. I'm David Slater, Executive Chairman and CEO. It is my pleasure to welcome you today for this meeting. We are excited to be hosting this meeting virtually, which allows us to be more inclusive and reach a greater number of our stockholders who will be attending via the web portal. Seeing that it is now just past 10:00 A.M. Eastern Time on May 5th, 2026, I'm officially calling this meeting to order.
The voting polls are now officially open. Any stockholder who has not yet voted or wishes to change their vote may do so by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and follow the instructions there. Stockholders who have sent in proxies or previously voted via telephone or internet and do not wanna change their vote do not need to take any further action. The polls will remain open until the proposals are read. Today's meeting will begin with the business portion, followed by questions at the end of the meeting.
However, there may be a possibility that we will not be able to answer every question during today's meeting. First, I would like to acknowledge the members of our board of directors who are with me today, as well as DT Midstream's executive leadership team. I am very fortunate to have such an engaged and collaborative board and proud to be a member of this highly effective executive team.
I will now turn it over to Wendy Ellis, DT Midstream's General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, who will act as the meeting secretary to go over the procedural matters of the meeting.
Thanks, David. We are also joined here today by our independent auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers. The company has also appointed Beth Vanderbeck from Carideo Group to act as Inspector of Election. Beth is with us today and has taken the oath of Inspector of Election. After the formal meeting has been adjourned, we will provide time for general questions. Only validated stockholders may ask questions in the designated field on the web portal.
Out of consideration for others, we ask that you limit yourself to 1 question. Please note that this meeting is being recorded, n o one attending via the webcast or telephone is permitted to use any audio recording device. The DT Midstream Board of Directors approved March 11th, 2026 as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting. An affidavit has been delivered attesting to the fact that either, 1, a notice of internet availability of the notice of the meeting, the proxy statement, and the 2025 annual report to stockholders.
Or 2, the documents themselves were mailed on or about March 26th, 2026 to all stockholders as of the record date and will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. The stockholder list shows that as of the record date, there were 102,014,118 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at this meeting. Our preliminary review confirmed that there were proxy shares of common stock representing 90 , 997,482 votes, or approximately 89.220% of the voting power on the record date.
Since this represents more than a majority of the voting power of all issued and outstanding stock entitled to vote on the record date, a quorum is present for purposes of transacting business. Now I will present the matters to be voted on. Proposal 1 is the election of directors to hold office until DT Midstream's 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The board presents 7 nominees for election as directors. The information set forth in the proxy statement supports the conclusion that these individuals are highly qualified to serve on the board.
The director nominees are David Slater, Angela Archon, Stephen Baker, Elaine Pickle, Robert Skaggs, Jr., Peter Tumminello, and Dwayne Wilson. Your board recommends a vote for these nominees. Proposal 2 is the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as DT Midstream's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026.
Your board recommends a vote for this agenda item. Proposal 3 is for the approval on an advisory non-binding basis of the compensation of DT Midstream's named executive officers. Your board recommends a vote for this agenda item. Proposal 4 is a stockholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent.
The stockholder proposal is being removed from consideration because the proponent is not in attendance and has not provided us with a statement as required by Rule 14A8H1, which states that either the proponent or a qualified representative must attend the meeting to present the proposal. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I now declare the polls for the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of DT Midstream closed.
I have been informed by the Inspector of Election that the preliminary vote report shows that, 1, The nominees for the election to the board have been duly elected. 2, PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed as DT Midstream's independent registered public accounting firm. 3, The compensation of DT Midstream's named executive officers has been approved. We will be reporting the final vote results in a Form 8-K to be filed within 4 business days. With that, I will now turn the meeting back over to David Slater.
Thank you, Wendy. There being no further business to come before the meeting, the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of DT Midstream is now adjourned, the time being 10:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time. I would like to open up the meeting for stockholder questions. Stockholders interested in submitting a question may do so by entering it on the web portal. Out of consideration for others, please limit yourself to one question. Seeing that we have no questions, we will be closing the meeting.
This meeting has now concluded. You may now disconnect.