Good morning, and welcome to 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Forrester Research, Inc. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to George Colony, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Forrester.
Thank you and welcome, everyone. I'm happy that you're able to attend today's meeting. Today, we will conduct the business portion of our meeting first and answer questions at the end of the meeting. Here with us today are Chris Finn, our Chief Financial Officer, Ryan Darrah, the company's Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, and Ed Bryce Morris, the company's Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations. Also with us is Tony Friscia, our Lead Independent Director and Chairman of our Compensation and Nominating Committee. Tony is the founder and former President and Chief Executive Officer of AMR Research, Inc. I would also like to introduce Jeff Anderson from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025. He will be available during the question and answer session after the meeting to respond to appropriate questions.
Finally, the company has appointed Broadridge Financial Solutions to act as Inspector of Election. Terry Hassett from Broadridge is with us today and has taken the oath of Inspector of Election prior to the meeting. With that, Sorry. I will now call our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to order, and I'll turn the meeting over to Ryan Darrah, who will conduct the formal portion of today's meeting. Ryan.
Thanks, George, and good morning, stockholders. The board of directors fixed March 16th, 2026 as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting. An affidavit has been delivered attesting to the fact that either a notice of internet availability of the notice of the meeting, the proxy statement, and the 2025 annual report to stockholders or the documents themselves were mailed on or about March 31st, 2026 to all stockholders as of the record date. This affidavit will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. We are informed by the Inspector of Election that there are more than 9,587,947 shares of common stock represented at this meeting by proxy, representing at least a majority of Forrester Research, Inc.'s issued and outstanding capital stock entitled to vote, and therefore, we have a quorum.
Now, I will present the matters to be voted upon, all of which were described in detail in the proxy statement furnished to stockholders. Please note that we will give stockholders an opportunity to ask questions about the proposals themselves after all proposals have been presented. Proposal one is the election of six directors to the company's board of directors. In addition to Mr. Colony and Mr. Friscia, the board has nominated the following individuals for election as directors of the company to hold office until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Bob Bennett, who's the Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of EngageSmart, Inc. Neil Bradford, who's the Chief Executive Officer of General Index Limited. Cory Munchbach, who's the former Chief Executive Officer of BlueConic Inc.
Warren Romine, who's the Founder and Managing Director of Orchard Knob Capital, LLC. Proposal two is the approval of an amendment and restatement of the company's third amended and restated employee stock purchase plan to increase the number of shares available for purchase under the plan. Proposal three relates to the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. Proposal four is a non-binding vote of the stockholders on the company's executive compensation program. If any stockholder would like to ask a question regarding any of the proposals, please submit your question through the web portal. At this time, the polls remain 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 now declare the polls for the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Forrester Research, Inc. closed, and I will report the preliminary results of the voting. We've been informed by the Inspector of Election that the preliminary vote report shows that all the nominees for election to the board have been duly elected. The amendment and restatement of the company's third amended and restated employee stock purchase plan has been approved.
The ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026 has been approved. The company's executive compensation program has been approved by advisory vote. We will be reporting the final vote results in a Form 8-K to be filed within four business days. With that, I'll turn it back over to George.
Thank you, Ryan. With no further business to come before the meeting, the meeting is now adjourned. At this point, we would like to open things up for stockholder questions and comments. If you have a question, please enter it on the web portal. Please note we will attempt to answer as many questions as time allows, but only questions that are germane to the meeting will be addressed. It appears that there are no further questions, so we're gonna wrap up. Thank you again for attending, and goodbye.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.