Good morning, welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Evercore. Please note that this meeting will be recorded and will consist of copyrighted material. You may not record or rebroadcast these materials without Evercore's consent. I will now turn the call over to John Weinberg, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Evercore.
Thank you. We sincerely thank you for taking the time to join us this morning for our 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. At this time, I call the meeting to order. A copy of the agenda is on your screen, the rules of conduct are available in the virtual shareholder meeting room. I will now turn the meeting over to our Corporate Secretary, Jason Klurfeld.
Thank you, John. You will be able to participate in the meeting by voting and by submitting written questions if you held our stock as of the close of business on our record date, April 13th, 2026. Let me now provide an overview of how our meeting will proceed. First, I'll make several introductions, go over some procedural housekeeping necessary for our corporate record-keeping, review the rules of conduct for our virtual meeting, introduce the formal business of the meeting, including the four proposals being voted on today. I will open the polls for voting, we will answer any questions that we have received that relate to the proposals. After voting is closed, I will report on the preliminary voting results announced. I will adjourn the formal part of the meeting, we will address appropriate questions relevant to the business of the company.
Present today are the following board members: Roger Altman, Founder and Senior Chairman, Pamela Carlton, Alan Fuchs, Gail Harris, Robert Millard, Willard Overlock Jr., Sir Simon M. Robertson, Christine Varney, John Weinberg, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, William Wheeler, Sarah K. Williamson. Also present today is Tim LaLonde, our Chief Financial Officer, along with representatives from Deloitte & Touche. During the question and answer period at the end of the meeting, they will be available to answer questions concerning the company's financial statements. Jonathan Kaplan is acting as the Inspector of Election, has previously taken the oath as an Inspector of Elections. The proxy holders for this annual meeting are John Weinberg and myself. You all have access to a copy of the rules of conduct. In order to conduct an orderly meeting, we ask that participants follow the rules.
Because this is a meeting of stockholders, only our stockholders as of the close of business on our record date on April 13th, 2026, are permitted to vote and ask questions. To vote and submit questions, please follow the instructions in our virtual shareholder meeting room. You will be limited to a maximum of two questions. As a reminder, we will only answer questions that are submitted in writing via these procedures. As noted, the record date for voting at this meeting was the close of business on April 13th, 2026. A list of stockholders on the record date, this year's notice of meeting and proxy statement, and our annual report are available for your review in the virtual shareholder meeting room. I have in my possession an affidavit showing that the proxy materials were mailed prior to May 1st, 2026, to stockholders of record.
A copy of both the proxy notice and the affidavit of mailing will be incorporated into the minute. We are informed that there are represented in person, electronically, or by proxy, a majority in voting power of the stock issued and outstanding, which is a sufficient number of shares for a quorum to be present for this meeting. The meeting is now duly convened for the purposes of transacting business properly before it. The next order of business is a description of matters properly brought before this meeting. Voting will commence after all proposals have been presented. The first item of business today is the election of Directors. The 11 directors named in the proxy statement are to be elected today. The 11 nominees receiving a plurality of votes of shares present in person or by proxy at this meeting will be elected as Directors.
Directors elected today will hold office until the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders, and their successors are elected or qualified or until his or her earlier resignation or removal. The second item of business today is the approval on an advisory basis of the compensation of our named executive officers. The third item of business today is to ratify the selection of Deloitte & Touche as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2026. The fourth item of business today is to approve the fourth amended and restated 2016 Evercore Inc. stock incentive plan. I have moved all these proposals. The polls are now open. If you have provided your proxy card, your shares will be voted accordingly without any further action on your part. If you intend to vote today, please follow the instructions shown in the virtual shareholder meeting room.
At this time, we will address any questions relating to the foregoing proposal submitted through the virtual shareholder meeting room. If you have not submitted a question but would like to do so now before we move on to voting, please follow the instructions in the virtual shareholder meeting room. I declare the polls now closed at 9:05 A.M. today, June 10th, 2026, and ask that the inspector of elections collect and tabulate the ballots. The ballots have now been tabulated, and the preliminary results are that each of the nominees have been duly elected as a Director of the company, each to serve his or her designated term, and the remaining proposals have received the requisite shareholder approval. I will file the following with the records of the meeting.
A list of stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting, proxies voted at this meeting, the notice of mailing and proof of mailing, inspector's oath and reports, ballots for the election of Directors, and minutes of the meeting's proceedings. Since there's no further official business to come before this meeting, I declare the meeting to be officially adjourned at 9:06 A.M., June 10th, 2026. We will now proceed with the informal portion of the meeting. At this time, we will address any questions relating to the company's business that have been submitted through the virtual shareholder meeting room. If you have not submitted a question but would like to do so now, please follow the instructions in the virtual shareholder meeting room. Also, I'd like to remind everyone that we will not be discussing any material non-public information at this meeting.
It would not be fair to Evercore stockholders who could not attend the meeting. There being no further questions, our program for the day has concluded. Thank you all for attending today's meeting and for your continuing support of the company.
This concludes today's meeting. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect and have a wonderful rest of your day.