Hello, and welcome to the 2021 Annual Shareholders Meeting for FB Financial Corporation. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. From the company, we are joined by Chris Holmes, President, CEO and Director Stuart McWherter, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Beth Sims, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Following the completion of prepared remarks and the official business agenda, there will be a question and answer session. At this time, I will turn the meeting over to Chris Holmes.
Mr. Holmes, the floor is now yours.
All right. Thank you very much and good morning everyone and thank you for joining us today for our 5th Annual Meeting of Shareholders and our 2nd and hopefully last in a virtual setting. There was a lot of uncertainty when we last gathered 11 months ago and because this meeting is virtual, we don't have a presentation as a part of the agenda, but you can find our latest investor presentation on our website. However, between the closing of the Franklin Financial Network merger and the outstanding growth in our tangible book value and the growth in our core deposit base over the past year, we believe we're well positioned for continued success. I'm excited about the strides that we intend to take between now and next year's meeting.
The agenda for the meeting today, which is available on the website, governs the order of our formal business and list our rules of procedure. Registered shareholders at the meeting today may now submit questions by utilizing the online portal. We're monitoring your questions and at the end of the business portion of the meeting, I will answer appropriate questions that are properly submitted. Representatives from our external accounting firm, Crowe LLP, will also be available during the Q and A session. Our Chairman of the Board, Stuart McWhirter, will preside over the meeting.
Stuart succeeds Jim Ayers, who is a long time Chairman of the company. Stuart, I will now turn the meeting over to you. Thank you, Chris. As Chris mentioned, I will preside over this meeting and Beth Sims, our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary will act as the Inspector of Election and as Secretary of the meeting. Polls are now open.
If you are a shareholder and you've logged in today using your control number, you can now vote virtually or change your previously submitted vote by clicking the link labeled, quote, cast your vote in the center of your screen. Now that the polls are open, I'll ask Beth Sims to report on the delivery of notice for this meeting, the availability of the shareholders list and the presence of a quorum. Thereafter, the polls will be closed, the votes will be tabulated, and Ms. Sims will report the voting results.
Thank you, Stuart. Shareholders of record at the close of business on March 22, 2021 are entitled to notice of and to vote at this meeting. Notice of this meeting was properly delivered to these shareholders and a list of these shareholders has been available for inspection for the period required by the company's bylaws. Regarding the presence of a quorum, more than a majority of shares entitled to vote at this meeting are represented today either virtually or by proxy.
Thank you, Beth. I declare that a quorum is present, so we will now proceed with the formal business. I'll begin by describing the proposals that are being voted on at this meeting. The first proposal is the election of 14 nominees for director. The Board of Directors nominated each of Jimmy E.
Allen, William F. Andrews, James W. Ayers, J. Jonathan Ayers, William F. Carpenter, Eugenia W.
Clark, James W. Cross IV, James L. Exum, Christopher T. Holmes, Orin H. Ingram, Raja J.
Jubran, Stuart C. McWhorter, Emily J. Reynolds and Melody Sullivan. As directors to serve until the 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified, no other nominations have been made in accordance with the bylaws. Therefore, I declare the nominations for directors closed.
The second proposal is the ratification of the appointment of Crowe LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the 2021 fiscal year. The 3rd proposal is the approval of amendments to the company's charter to eliminate super majority voting standards. There were no other proposals submitted by shareholders for consideration at this meeting. Accordingly, I now declare that the polls are officially closed. Beth, would you please tabulate the vote?
Yes, sir. Just one minute. All right, as we gather the latest vote totals. All right. On the first proposal, the election of directors, the plurality of the shares represented at this meeting were voted in favor of the election of each of the 14 director nominees.
On the second proposal, a majority of the shares represented at this meeting were voted in favor of the ratification of the appointment of Crowe LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. On the 3rd proposal, fewer than 80% of all shares entitled to vote at this meeting were voted in favor of the amendments to the company's charter to eliminate super majority voting standards. Therefore, this proposal has not been approved by the shareholders.
Thank you. I hereby declare that these are the official voting results of the meeting and I direct the results to be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. That completes our official business agenda for today and I now declare the meeting adjourned And we will pause for any questions that may come out in our message forward. No questions from shareholders have been submitted via the online portal, so this concludes this meeting. Thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's conference call. You may now disconnect.