Welcome to the annual meeting for Dawson Geophysical Company. Our host for today's call is Tony Clark, CEO and President. At this time, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. I will now turn the call over to your host, Tony Clark. You may begin.
Thank you. Welcome to the Dawson Geophysical Company 2024 annual meeting of shareholders. I am Tony Clark, Chief Executive Officer and President of Dawson Geophysical, and I will act as Chairman of this meeting. David Nobles, Vice President and General Counsel of the company, will act as Secretary of the meeting. Ian Shaw, Chief Financial Officer of the company, has been appointed by the Board of Directors to serve as Inspector of Election of the meeting to canvass the votes and certify the results in writing. Joe Blythe, Representative of RSM US LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm, is also participating on this webcast and available to answer shareholder questions regarding the financial status and condition of the company. This year's annual meeting is being held as a virtual meeting via live audio webcast.
Any shareholder can vote during the meeting until the polls are closed, and any shareholder may submit questions while the meeting is in progress. We will answer questions after the official business has been completed. If you would like to vote your shares or ask questions during this meeting, you must have entered the online meeting portal by using the control number contained in your proxy card. For those of you who have not already voted or wish to change your vote, you should select "Click Here to Vote" in the meeting portal and submit your vote. After all the proposals have been presented and considered at this meeting, the polls will close and no more online votes or proxies will be accepted. Each of our director nominees is in attendance on this webcast and currently serves on our Board of Directors.
The director nominees are as follows: Matthew Wilks, Bruce Bradley, Albert Conly, Jose Carlos Fernandes, and Sergei Krylov. We will now move to the official business of the meeting. I hereby call the Dawson Geophysical Company Annual Meeting of Shareholders to order. Mr. Nobles will now present the Secretary's report.
Thank you, Tony.
We have received an affidavit from Broadridge Financial Solutions certifying that notice of this annual meeting and proxy materials was sent, commencing on April 29, 2024, to all shareholders of record as of April 22, 2024, the record date for this meeting. Accordingly, this meeting has been duly called under the laws of the State of Texas and under the Company's bylaws. Dawson's annual report on Form 10-K was made available to shareholders on April 1, 2024. The certified list of shareholders entitled to vote in person or by proxy as of the record date has been made available at Dawson's principal executive office in Midland, Texas, for at least 10 days prior to this meeting and is available for inspection by shareholders during this meeting via the online portal.
Thank you, David. I hereby request a roll call for Mr. Shaw, disclosing the number of shares present by holders thereof in person or proxy.
Thanks, Tony. Represented in person or by proxy are 27,411,727 shares of common stock, or approximately 89% of all of the shares entitled to vote at this meeting. Because holders of at least a majority of the shares entitled to vote at this meeting are present in person or by proxy, a quorum exists.
Thank you, Ian. It is 10:04 A.M. on June 18, 2024, and the polls are now open. The polls will close shortly following the presentation of the final proposal and my call for the collection of votes. We will now proceed to the matters to be voted on at this meeting by shareholders as set forth in our Proxy Statement. First, to elect five directors to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until their respective successors shall be elected and qualified. Second, to qualify the selection of RSM US LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. And finally, to vote upon a non-binding advisory resolution regarding the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in our Proxy Statement. The online voting polls are open.
If you are voting, please do so now by following the instructions available on the webcast. If you have already voted, you do not need to vote again unless you wish to change your vote. The Inspector of Elections will complete the tabulation and report on the votes cast at the conclusion of the meeting. We will now pause to complete the voting. The polls are now closed at 10:06 A.M. on June 18, 2024. Mr. Shaw, can you please tally the results? Inspector, have you completed the tabulation of voting?
Mr. Chairman, based on my tabulation, each of the Company's nominees for Director of the Company has been elected. Further, a majority of the votes cast have voted to ratify the appointment of RSM US LLP and to approve the executive compensation as disclosed in the proxy statement.
Thank you. Based on these results, I hereby declare, with respect to Proposal One, each of the Company's nominees for Director of the Company has been duly elected to serve for the ensuing year and until their successors are elected and qualified. With respect to Proposal Two, the appointment of RSM US LLP as the Company's independent auditor for 2024 has been approved. With respect to Proposal Three, the compensation of the named executive officer has been approved. The Inspector will make and certify a final report of the following results, the voting results, to be disclosed in the Form 8-K to be filed by Dawson Geophysical in four days of this meeting. We have now completed the official business scheduled for our annual meeting and will take questions.