Welcome to First Financial Bancorp's Annual Shareholder Meeting. I would now like to turn the call over to Claude Davis, Chairman, Chair of the Board. Please go ahead.
Good morning, and welcome to First Financial Bancorp's 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. I am Claude Davis and I serve as Chair of the Board of the company. I would like to welcome all of our shareholders to the meeting. At this time, I call this meeting to order. This meeting is being held as a virtual shareholder meeting via an Internet webcast.
Your attendance was recorded electronically when you signed in. Karen Woods, our General Counsel has been appointed to act as the Inspector of Elections and has taken the appropriate oath. Taking part in the webcast are myself as well as Archie Brown, our Chief Executive Officer Jamie Anderson, our Chief Financial Officer William Harrod, our Chief Credit Officer and Karen Woods. After we close the polls with respect to voting upon the proposals and report on the results of the vote, we will adjourn the meeting. At that time, we will answer any questions we receive from shareholders.
Questions can be submitted by shareholders using the Q and A section on the right side of the screen. I would now ask that Karen report on the mailing and availability of the meeting materials.
Mr. Chair, I report that on or about April 15, 2021, a notice of this annual meeting and information concerning accessing the annual report and proxy statement or copies of the annual report and proxy statement were mailed to all shareholders of First Financial Bancorp of record as of March 26, 2021. An affidavit to this effect together with the notice of annual meeting, proxy statement and annual report will be filed with the records of this meeting. The list of Ulfers Financial Bancorp shareholders entitled to receive notice and to vote at this meeting has been provided to us from Computershare, our transfer agent.
Karen, please report the number of shares present at this meeting in person or by proxy.
Upon review of the voting report received from our proxy tabulator, Broadridge Financial Services, including any shareholders attending this webcast who have not previously voted, there are approximately 86,000,000 shares represented at this meeting, constituting approximately 88% of the issued and outstanding shares.
Thank you, Karen. Based on the percentage of the total shares of the company held by holders of record represented at this meeting, a quorum is present and this meeting is duly constituted. At this time, I declare the polls open for each matter to be voted on today, which I will describe next. The polls will close following my review of the proposals. Instructions on how to vote during this meeting are provided on the website delivering this webcast.
Today, we have 3 proposals for consideration by the shareholders of First Financial Bancorp. The first proposal for consideration is the election of directors. Today, we have 11 nominees standing for election as directors of the company with terms expiring in 2022. These nominees were recommended by the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and approved by the Board of Directors. The nominees are William G.
Barron, Vincent A. Berta, Cynthia O. Booth, Archie M. Brown. I am the 5th nominee, Corinne R.
Finnerty, Susan L. Nast, William J. Kramer, John T. Nabors, Thomas M. O'Brien, Marybeth S.
Ray. The background of each Director can be found in our proxy statement for this meeting. The company has an advanced notice provision in its regulations. Accordingly, all nominations are closed. The second proposal is to ratify the appointment of Crowe LLP as the company's independent registered accounting firm for the fiscal year that ends on December 31, 2021.
The 3rd proposal is approval of an advisory or non binding vote on executive compensation, otherwise known as say on pay. As we are not aware of any other matters to be brought before the Annual Meeting of Shareholders, we will proceed with closing the polls. If you have not already done so, please make your final votes using the virtual shareholder meeting website. I declare the polls now closed and ask that the Inspector of Elections collect and tabulate the ballots. Karen Woods will give us the results of our election.
Karen?
Having tabulated the votes received by proxy and the votes received throughout the virtual shareholder meeting website, the results are as follows. All of the nominees received at least a plurality and a majority of the total shares voted and all are thereby elected as directors with terms ending in 2022. Crowe LLP has been ratified as the company's independent registered accounting firm for the fiscal year that ends on December 31, 2021. The advisory or non binding proposal on executive compensation otherwise known as SAM pay was approved. Final election results will be included in Form 8 ks that will be filed with the SEC within 4 business days of this meeting.
There being no further business, the meeting is now adjourned. We will now answer any questions submitted by shareholders either prior to or during this meeting. There being no questions received, we thank you all for attending today's meeting and for your continuing support of First Financial. Thank you.
This concludes First Financial's annual meeting of shareholders. Let me now disconnect.