Good morning. Welcome to the annual meeting of stockholders of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation. I'd now like to turn the meeting over to company management. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Good morning, everybody. My name is John Reilly, Six Flags President and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the board of directors. On behalf of your board, I welcome you to the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders for Six Flags Entertainment Corporation. Our meeting is being held today as a virtual stockholders meeting. We're happy you can join us. The meeting will now come to order. I would like to begin the meeting by introducing members of the company's board of directors who are attending today's meeting. Starting with our director nominees, they include Executive Chairman Richard Haddrill, Lead Independent Director Marilyn Spiegel, and Director Chieh Huang. Also joining us are directors Jonathan Brudnick, Sandra Cochran, Michael Colglazier, Felipe Dutra, Steven Hoffman, Arik Ruchim, and myself, John Reilly.
Effectively immediately following this meeting, Rehan Jaffer, founder and managing member of H Partners, will be appointed to the Six Flags board of directors as a Class III director, replacing his colleague, Arik Ruchim, who will be stepping down. The company wants to thank Arik for his outstanding contributions to the board since 2020. I would also like to acknowledge and thank outgoing director Jennifer Mason, who prior to the merger, served on the Cedar Fair board beginning in 2022 and was integral in helping drive the integration process of the two legacy companies post-merger. We're joined today by members of Six Flags' executive and management team, as well as Michael Russell, Head of Investor Relations, to whom you may direct any follow-up questions after this meeting.
We're also joined virtually today by Deloitte & Touche, our independent auditors, as well as by our Inspector of Election, Cipriano Beredo from Squire Patton Boggs, Six Flags' outside counsel. Cip has taken the oath of Inspector of Election, which was notarized prior to this meeting. The meeting today is being hosted via virtual stockholders meeting room. To ensure an orderly meeting, we will follow the conduct of meeting guidelines, a copy of which has been made available through the online virtual meeting portal. Given the virtual format of today's annual meeting, management will not be taking questions after its conclusion. You are welcome, however, to submit questions to management using the link provided on the meeting portal. Please note that the timeframe for submitting questions closes when we adjourn the formal portion of the meeting. Please enter your questions now using the online link provided.
Management will respond to questions as appropriate at a later time. Any stockholder entitled to vote may vote while connected to the meeting room. You can do so by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions provided. Any ballot not received when called for will not be counted. In a few moments, you'll have an opportunity to submit your vote online after I announce that the polls are open. If you have submitted your vote via proxy already, you need not vote again. Now to the formal portion of today's meeting. I would like now to call the meeting to order. An agenda that outlines the order of business for the meeting has been made available through the online virtual meeting portal. The formal business of this meeting will include consideration of three proposals.
The proposals to be voted on at this meeting are discussed in the proxy statement that was mailed to stockholders. Will our inspector please present the affidavit regarding the notice of this meeting?
I present the affidavit of Broadridge Financial Solutions, showing that the mailing of the notice of this annual meeting of stockholders was completed on or about April 9th, 2026, to each stockholder of record as of March 27th, 2026, the record date for this annual meeting.
Thanks, Cip. As established by the board of directors and as stated in the notice of this meeting, only stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 27, 2026, may vote at this meeting. A list of the stockholders as of the record date will be made available for inspection by any stockholder at this meeting. The affidavit of Broadridge Financial and a list of stockholders have been filed with the official records of the company and will also be included with the record of this annual meeting. Based on the information from Morrow Sodali, the company's proxy solicitor, we believe a quorum under the requirements of the company's bylaws is present. Due to notice having been sent to all stockholders and a quorum being present, this annual meeting is duly convened.
The first order of business today is to consider and vote on the nomination of Richard Haddrill, Chieh Huang, and Marilyn Spiegel to serve as Class II directors for a three-year term expiring in 2029 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Your board of directors recommends a vote for Proposal 1 to elect Richard Haddrill, Chieh Huang, and Marilyn Spiegel as Class II directors. The second order of business is to confirm the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm to audit our consolidated financial statements for 2026. Your board of directors recommends a vote for Proposal two to confirm the Audit and Finance Committee's appointment of Deloitte & Touche as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2026. The third order of business is to hold an advisory vote on the approval of the compensation of our named executive officers.
Your board of directors recommends a vote for Proposal three to approve the compensation of our named executive officers as described in the company's proxy statement. These matters will now be put to a vote. I hereby declare that the polls concerning the matters to be voted upon at this meeting are now open. Any stockholder who has not yet voted or who wishes to change their vote may do so by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions provided. 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. We will pause now for votes to be cast. Operator, please open the polls for voting.
We will take a few moments to ensure all of the online ballots have been properly submitted for the three proposals being voted on today. The inspector has also collected the master ballot that is being cast by the designated proxies. Since all those desiring to vote or submit a proxy card have done so, I hereby declare that the polls for the matters to be voted upon at this annual meeting are now closed. The inspector will tabulate the votes and results will be available shortly. The vote tabulation has now been completed and the inspector has provided me with the results of the three proposals. On Proposal one, the following individuals received plurality of votes cast with respect to such nominees' election: Richard Haddrill, Chieh Huang, and Marilyn Spiegel.
On Proposal two, to confirm the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for Six Flags for 2026, the proposal received favorable votes from more than 50% of the shares of common stock present or represented by proxy at this annual meeting and entitled to vote on Proposal two. On Proposal three, an advisory vote to approve the compensation of our named executive officers, the proposal received favorable votes from more than 50% of the shares of common stock present or represented by proxy at this annual meeting and entitled to vote on Proposal three. Based on these results, I hereby declare Richard Haddrill, Chieh Huang, and Marilyn Spiegel to be duly elected directors of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.
I confirm the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2026, and I confirm the advisory votes on executive compensation will be taken into consideration by the People, Culture & Compensation Committee and the board of directors. The certificate of the inspector, which includes the final vote tabulation, will be filed with the corporate records as well as reported to the marketplace through our filing of a Form 8-K. That concludes the formal portion of the meeting. Therefore, I declare the meeting is now adjourned. As mentioned at the beginning of this meeting, given the format of today's annual meeting, management will not be taking questions at this time. Management will respond to questions as appropriate at a later time. I want to thank you for joining us today and wish you a pleasant day. Everyone may disconnect.