Good morning, and welcome to Everus Construction Group's 2026 Annual Stockholder Meeting. I am Jeffrey Thiede, President and Chief Executive Officer of Everus, and it is my pleasure to introduce our Board Chair, Dale Rosenthal.
Thank you, Jeff, and welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We are excited to be hosting our annual meeting in an online format, which allows us to be more inclusive and reach a greater number of our stockholders. We have stockholders attending via the web portal and the 800 number that we have provided.
We will conduct the business portion of our meeting first, and then if there are questions, we will do our best to provide an answer to them at the end of the meeting. In keeping with the digital approach to this year's meeting, it is May 12, 2026, and this meeting is officially called to order.
I have requested Everus's Chief Legal Officer, Paul Sanderson, to act as the secretary of this meeting. Jeff, will you please introduce the other members of the board and our company representatives present today?
Thank you, Madam Chair. Along with Chair Dale Rosenthal and I, we are pleased to have directors Michael Della Rocca, Helena Hernandez, Edward Ryan, David Sparby, Clark Wood, and Betty Winn here today. Biographies and other information about our directors currently up for election are included in our proxy statement.
We also have the members of our executive leadership team here, including Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Thomas Nosbusch, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Maximillian Marcy, Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary Paul Sanderson, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer Jon Hunke, Vice President of Human Resources Britney Hendricks, Vice President of Technology Jason Behring, and Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy Timothy Sznewajs.
We are also joined today by our independent auditors, KPMG, and our 2025 independent auditors, Deloitte & Touche, who will be available during the question and answer session at the end of the meeting if there are applicable questions. Finally, in accordance with Delaware law, our board has appointed Everus CFO Maximillian Marcy and a representative of the Carideo Group, Bob Johnson, to act as the Inspector of Election. Mr. Maximillian Marcy and Mr. Johnson took the oath of Inspector of Election prior to the meeting today.
After the formal meeting has been adjourned, we will provide time for questions regarding the business being conducted at today's meeting. Only validated stockholders may ask questions in the designated field on the web portal. Out of consideration for others, please limit yourself to one question. Please note that this meeting is being recorded.
However, no one attending via the webcast or telephone is permitted to use any audio recording device. The board of directors fixed March 16, 2026 as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting.
An affidavit has been received attesting that either a notice of internet availability of the notice of the meeting, 2026 proxy statement, and the 2025 annual report to stockholders or the documents themselves were mailed on or about March 27, 2026 to all stockholders as of the record date and will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. Stockholder list shows that as of the record date, there were 51,041,606 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at this meeting.
We are informed by the Inspector of Election that more than 50% of the shares outstanding on the record date are represented in person or by proxy. Therefore, a quorum exists for transacting business.
Thank you, Jeff. I will now present the matters to be voted upon. This year, we have 3 matters before the stockholders that require a vote. The first proposal is the election of directors. There are 8 nominees for election as directors to hold office until the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
The second proposal is the advisory vote to approve the compensation of our named executive officers. The third proposal is to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2026. An explanation of each item to be voted upon is included in the proxy statement.
The polls are now 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 following the instructions there.
Stockholders who have sent in proxies or voted via telephone or internet and do not want to change their vote do not need to take any further action. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I declare the polls closed for the 2026 annual stockholder meeting.
We have been informed by the Inspector of Election that the preliminary vote report shows that the nominees for election to the board have been duly elected, the compensation of the named executive officers has been approved, and the ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2026 has been approved. We will report the final vote results in a Form 8-K to be filed within four business days.
There being no further business to come before the meeting, the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders at Everus is now adjourned, and we will now open the floor for questions from our stockholders.
We have not received any questions via the web portal, so we will end this meeting. We appreciate your participation in our 2026 annual stockholder meeting and your interest in Everus Construction Group. Thank you. You may now sign off.