Good afternoon, and welcome to the H. D. Fuller Annual Meeting of Shareholders I would now like to turn the conference over to Jim Owens, President and CEO of H. B. Fuller.
Please go ahead.
Good afternoon.
I'm Jim Owens, President and CEO it's my pleasure to welcome you to our 2018 annual meeting of shareholders. I'm joined today by Lee Mehtow, our Chairman, who will preside over this meeting. Time now is 2 pm on Thursday, April 12, 2018, and 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 submitted on the website.
If you have logged into the meeting with your control number, you may a 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 And Corporate Secretary of B. Fuller will go through the business agenda.
Thank you, Jim. We are pleased to be joined today by all nine members of our Board of Directors Also, in attendance on behalf of KPMG, our independent auditing firm, our Ben Reinhardt and Travis Ravey, I also would like to welcome Christine Sundberg, who 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 Elections that the mailing of our annual report proxy statement and proxy card commenced on February 28, 2018 to shareholders of record on February 14, 2018. The majority of the voting power of those shares is represented in this meeting by proxies.
A quorum therefore is present and I now declare this meeting open for official business. We have 4 proposals before us today 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 Annual Meeting. They are Thomas W Hanley, Maria Teresa Gelato, and Ruth Kimmelshu, all are currently directors.
The second proposal is to provide shareholders with an advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers This advisory vote on executive compensation is not binding on the company's board of directors. However, will take into account application of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm, KPMG LLP for the fiscal year ending December 1, 2018. The 4th and final proposal is to approve the HP Fuller Company 2018 master incentive plan. 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 items or wish to revoke a proxy card you have previously signed, you may vote your shares by clicking on the vote here button on your screen now.
You will need the control number provided in your proxy in order to vote your shares online. I'll now pause to allow The polls are now officially closed and I would like to announce the results of the voting. Thomas W Hanley, Maria Theresa Hellado and Ruth Kimleshoo have each been elected to the Board of Directors. The advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers is described in our proxy statement has passed. The proposal to ratify the appointment of KPMG has been approved.
And finally, the HP Fuller Company 2018 Mass incentive plan has been approved. There being no other business to attend to. I declared the business portion of the 2018 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, if 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 prioritize questions that relate to proposals considered at this meeting. If you have general questions about HB4, please include your contact information so we can respond directly you after the meeting. We've allotted up to 10 minutes to answer questions.
We will now pause to allow questions to be submitted. We have received no questions. And at any time you have a question about HB4 that you wish to have answered, please contact Maximilian Mars to see Director, Investor Relations And International Finance at 651,236, 5062. I would like to conclude by thanking everyone for participating in today's meeting and for your continued support of HB Fullard the meeting is now adjourned.