Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the electroCore Inc annual meeting. I will now turn it over to Thomas J. Errico. Please go ahead.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am Thomas J. Errico, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of electroCore Inc. Will the meeting please come to order? I would like to welcome you to the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders of electroCore Inc. We appreciate your interest in our company, and thank you for attending this virtual meeting of our stockholders. Stockholders who require technical assistance during the meeting can call Broadridge's technical support line at the number listed on the virtual meeting website. I will be acting as chairman of this meeting. I would now like to introduce the other directors of the company and the officers of the company joining us this morning. In addition to myself, participating in the meeting today are the following directors: Julie Bruzzone-Goldstein, John Gandolfo, Patricia Wilber, James C. Theofilos, and Elena Bonfiglioli.
Also with us today is Joshua Lev, interim President and Chief Financial Officer of the company, and Michael Fox, Chief Operating Officer of the company. Also participating in the meeting today are, from Dentons US LLP, outside counsel to the company, Ira Kotel and Zach Weiss, a nd from CBIZ CPAs P.C., the company's independent auditors, Michael Cohen and Christopher Casolaro. Mr. Lev will act as the secretary of the meeting. Also participating in the meeting is Christopher Woods from American Election Services, who has been appointed to act as the inspector of election. Links to the rules and conduct and the agenda for today's meeting are available on the virtual meeting website on the bottom of the webpage. As set forth in the agenda, we will first address the business of the meeting and the results of the stockholder vote. Before we proceed, we need to cover some legal formalities.
The secretary of the meeting has received an affidavit of mailing from the transfer agent establishing that notice of this meeting was duly given. A copy of the notice and the affidavit of mailing will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. All stockholders of record at the close of business on July 10th, 2026, are entitled to vote at the annual meeting. Our first order of business at this meeting is to determine whether the shares represented at this meeting, either in person or by proxy, are sufficient to constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting business. Mr. Woods, do you have a report?
Yes, Dr. Errico. The stockholder list shows that holders of 9,015,885 shares of common stock of the company are entitled to vote at this meeting. There are represented in person or by proxy 6,785,685 shares of common stock, representing in excess of one-third of all the shares entitled to vote at this meeting. I have also completed the oath of the inspector of election.
Thank you. Because holders of at least 3,005,295 of the shares entitled to vote at this meeting are represented in person or by proxy, I declare a quorum has been met and this meeting to be duly convened for the purpose of transacting such business that may properly come before it. No stockholder's proposals were received by the company by the required deadline. As such, there are no such proposals to consider at the meeting. We now turn to the matters to be voted on. The first proposal is to elect three class two directors, myself, Thomas J. Errico, James C. Theofilos, and Elena Bonfiglioli, to the board for a term of office expiring at the 2029 annual meeting. Directors are elected by plurality vote, which means that the directors receiving the most votes will be elected to the board.
The second proposal is to ratify the selection of CBIZ CPAs P.C. as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. This proposal must be approved by a majority of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at this meeting. The third proposal is to approve by non-binding advisory vote the resolutions approving the company's named executive officer compensation. This proposal must be approved by a majority of shares present in person or represented by proxy at this meeting. I declare the polls open for voting on these three items.
Any shareholder 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. 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 actions. The polls will be open for two additional minutes, during which time we will pause the proceedings. We now have all the votes, and I now declare the polls closed. I now request the Inspector of Elections, Mr. Woods, to canvass the votes and proxies and to submit a certificate as to the preliminary voting results. We will pause as Mr. Woods canvasses the votes. Mr. Woods, please let us know when you are ready.
Mr. Chairman, we can proceed.
Will the inspector please present a preliminary report of the results of the voting?
A preliminary count of the votes and proxies has been completed, and the nominees for the elections for the board of directors, namely Thomas J. Errico, James C. Theofilos, and Elena Bonfiglioli, have been duly elected. The selection of CBIZ CPAs, P.C. as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026, has been ratified, and the resolution approving the company's named executive officer compensation has been approved on an advisory, non-binding basis.
Thank you, Christopher. I note that the final vote tally will appear in a Form 8-K to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or before September 14th, 2026. This concludes the official business of the meeting. I hereby instruct the corporate secretary to prepare minutes of the meeting. Thank you for joining us at the electroCore Inc Annual Meeting of the Stockholders. Please be well and stay safe.
his concludes today's meeting. You may disconnect.