And welcome to the 2019 H. B. Fuller Annual Meeting of Shareholders. I would now like to turn the conference over to Jim Owens, President and Chief Executive Officer of H. B.
Fuller. Mr. Owens, please go ahead.
Good afternoon. I'm Jim Owens, President and CEO, and it's my pleasure to welcome you to our 2019 annual meeting of shareholders. I'm joined today by Lee Mehtau, our Chairman, who will preside over this meeting. It is just after 2 pm on Thursday, April 4, 2019, I call this meeting to order. On behalf of our directors, officers and employees, I want to thank you for joining us for this virtual annual meeting of shareholders.
Following the official items of business, we will answer questions related to the proposals submitted on the website. If you have logged into the meeting with your control number, you may ask question by typing it into the box at the bottom of the screen any time during this meeting. Now, Tim Keenan, Vice President, General Counsel corporate secretary of H. B. Fuller will go through the business agenda.
Thank you, Jim. We're pleased to be joined today by all ten members of our Board of Directors. Also in attendance on behalf of KPMG, our independent auditing firm, our Timothy Forstad and Jackie Wyatt. I also would like to welcome Christine Sundberg represents Broadridge and is the Inspector of Elections for this meeting. Let's turn our attention to today's business.
I have an affidavit from our Inspector of Elections at the mailing of our annual report proxy statement and proxy card commenced on February 20, 2019 to shareholders of record on February 6, 2019. The majority of the voting power of those shares this meeting by proxy. A quorum therefore is present and I now declare this meeting open for official business. We have 3 proposals before us to as presented in the proxy statement. The first is the election of directors.
3 directors have been nominated and named in the proxy statement for election to a 3 year term expiring at the 2022 annual meeting. They are James Shea Owens, Dante C, Perini, and John C Van Roden Junior. All are currently serving as directors. The Board of Directors recommends a vote for the election of these directors. The second proposal is provide shareholders with an advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in our proxy statement.
This advisory vote on executive compensation is not binding on the company's board of directors. However, the board of directors will into account the result of the vote when determining future executive compensation arrangements. The Board of Directors recommends a vote for this proposal. 3rd and final proposal is for the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting earned KPMG LLP, for the fiscal year ending November 30, 2019. The Board of Directors recommends a vote for the ratification of the appointment of KPMG LP.
We will now turn our attention to the voting of the shares if you have not yet submitted a proxy card and wish to vote on these proposals or wish to revoke a proxy card you have previously signed, you may vote your shares by clicking in order to vote your shares online. The polls are now officially closed and I would like to announce the results of the voting. James J Owens Dante C Perini and John C Van Roden Junior have each been elected to the Board of Directors. Of our named executive officers as described in our proxy statement has passed. And finally, the proposal to ratify the appointment at KPMG has been approved.
There'll be no other business to attend to. I declare the business portion of the 2019 annual meeting concluded, Jim Owens will now lead the question and answer period.
Thanks Tim. At this point, we would be happy to take your questions. Once again, you have logged into the meeting with your control number and would like to ask a question, you may do so now by typing your question into the box at the bottom of the screen. We will address questions related to the proposals of this meeting. If you have general questions about HP Fuller, please include your contact information so we can respond directly to you after the meeting.
We have allotted up to 10 minutes to answer questions. We will now pause to allow questions to be submitted. We have received no questions. If at any time you have a question about HB4 that you wish to have answered, please contact Barbara Doyle, Vice President Investor Relations at 651-236-5023. I would like to conclude by thanking everyone again for participating in today's meeting and for your continued support of HP Fuller.
The meeting is now adjourned.
The conference has now concluded. We thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.