Welcome to the annual meeting for Gevo Incorporated. Our host for today's call is Paul Bloom, Chief Executive Officer. I will now turn the call over to your host. Mr. Bloom, you may begin.
Good afternoon. I'm Paul Bloom, Chief Executive Officer of Gevo, Inc. I'm pleased to welcome you to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Gevo Incorporated. We appreciate your attendance, your interest, and most importantly, your support of Gevo. The 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders is being held entirely online via audio webcast. I hereby call the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to order. I will act as the chair of this meeting, and David Ketner, the General Counsel of the company, will act as the secretary of this meeting and will record the minutes of the meeting. For your reference, the agenda and rules of procedures have been posted on the virtual meeting platform. We ask that you please follow these rules so we may have an orderly meeting.
I have with me a complete list of stockholders of record of the company's common stock as of March 26th, 2026, the record date for this meeting. This list is certified by Equiniti Trust Company, LLC, the company's registrar and transfer agent. This list of stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting has been available for inspection by any stockholder at the company's headquarters for the past 10 days. I also have an affidavit of distribution containing a sworn statement by Broadridge indicating that the proxy materials or a notice of internet availability of proxy materials were sent to each stockholder of record beginning on April 9th, 2026. Stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting have the ability to submit questions to the virtual meeting platform, and we will try to answer any germane questions later in the meeting.
Louis Larson from L Squared Elections has been appointed to act as Inspector of Election at this meeting. The inspector's duties are to decide upon the qualifications of voters, accept their votes, and count the votes cast. Based upon the records of the company, there are at present at this meeting, either in person, including by means of remote communication or by proxy, holders of 1/3 of our stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, which constitutes a quorum. The polls are now open for voting on the matters to be considered. All Gevo stockholders entitled to vote have the ability to do so using the virtual meeting platform from now until the polls are closed. If you already have voted prior to this meeting, you do not need to vote during the meeting unless you wish to revoke your previous vote.
As described in the proxy statement for 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, there are three items submitted to the stockholders for consideration at this meeting: the election of James J. Barber, Paul D. Bloom, and Patrick R. Gruber as Class I Directors on the Board of Directors to serve a three-year term until our 2029 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the ratification and appointment of Deloitte & Touche, LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026, and the advisory non-binding vote to approve the compensation of our named executive officers. There are no other items properly submitted to be considered at this meeting. Please finalize your voting on the virtual meeting platform now if you wish to vote. I will pause to allow for voting. The polls are now closed on the proposals, and the votes will be counted.
The Inspector of Election has provided me with a preliminary tally of votes for the proposals. Based on the preliminary tabulations of the Inspector of Election, we can announce that James J. Barber, Paul D. Bloom, and Patrick R. Gruber were elected as Class I Directors of the Board of Directors. The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026 was ratified, and the compensation of our named executive officers was approved on an advisory, non-binding basis. We will report the final voting results for each of the proposals on Form 8-K within four business days from today. There is no other formal business to be addressed at this meeting. Therefore, the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Gevo, Inc. is hereby adjourned, and we will now begin the Q&A session.
For those stockholders in attendance, you can ask a question by submitting it in the Q&A section of your virtual meeting platform. Please feel free to submit questions now. If we receive substantially similar questions, we may group such questions together and provide a single response to avoid repetition. At this time, we have not received any relevant questions. Thank you again for your questions and continued dedication to Gevo.
This concludes today's meeting. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect and have a wonderful rest of your day.
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