Welcome to the annual meeting for Galaxy Digital, Inc. Our host for today's call is Mike Novogratz, Chief Executive Officer and Director. I will now turn the call over to your host. Mr. Novogratz, you may begin.
Good morning, welcome to Galaxy Digital's 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. I am Mike Novogratz, Chief Executive and Director of Galaxy. Joining the meeting today are Michael Daffey, our Board Chair, Tony Paquette, our Chief Financial Officer, Matt Friedrich, our Chief Legal Officer, Jonathan Goldowsky, Head of Investor Relations, Robert Sledge of KPMG, our independent auditors, and John Merva from the American Election Services, our Inspector of Elections. The meeting will now officially come to order. I will now ask Heather Houston, our Corporate Secretary, to run through the procedural matters of the meeting.
Thanks, Mike. We will proceed with the formal business of the meeting. The time is now 9:01 A.M., and the polls are open for voting. If you are a stockholder and have not already voted and wish to vote, the polls will remain open until we finish presenting the proposals and close the polls. You do not need to vote during the meeting if you have already voted and do not wish to change your vote. Upon joining the meeting portal, an agenda for the meeting should have become available on your screen. Also available in the portal are the rules of conduct for the meeting. To conduct an orderly meeting, we ask that participants abide by these rules. We will conduct a question-and-answer session at the conclusion of the formal business of the meeting.
If you would like to submit a question, you may submit through the portal. Note that only stockholders who are logged in to the meeting using their 16-digit control number will be able to vote and submit questions. Today's meeting is being held pursuant to the notice of annual meeting, including in the proxy statement made available to Galaxy stockholders on or about April 8th, 2026. The company's agents have certified that the proxy materials were made available to shareholders on such date. We will file copies of the notice and a related affidavit of mailing with the minutes of the meeting. The board has set April 2nd, 2026, as the record date for the meeting. All stockholders of record, including holders of Tokenized Galaxy at the close of business on such date or holders of a valid proxy, are entitled to vote at the meeting.
The company has designated John Merva from American Election Services to serve as Inspector of Election at today's meeting. Mr. Merva has signed the customary oath of office to execute his duties with strict impartiality. We will file this oath with the records of the meeting. Mr. Merva has informed me that a quorum is present. Therefore, I hereby declare this meeting to be duly constituted for the transaction of business. There are four proposals to be considered by stockholders. First, the election of all director nominees to serve as directors of the company to hold office until the company's annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2027 and until their respective successors have been duly elected and qualified. The board recommends you vote for each of the director nominees.
Second, the ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for our 2026 fiscal year. The board recommends you vote for this item. Third, the approval on an advisory basis of the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in the company's proxy statement. The board recommends you vote for this item. Fourth, the approval on an advisory basis of the frequency of future advisory votes on the compensation of our named executive officers. The board recommends you vote one year. If you wish to vote and you haven't already voted, please vote now by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions. You do not need to vote now if you have already voted, unless you wish to change your vote. We will now pause for approximately 30 seconds before closing the voting poll.
The time is now 9:05 A.M. Eastern Time, and the polls are now closed for voting. The Inspector of Election will count the votes. I have received the preliminary report of the Inspector of Election. Based on the preliminary report of the Inspector of Election, each of the director nominees has been elected to serve until our annual meeting to be held in 2027 and until their respective successors have been duly elected and qualified. The appointment of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2026 has been ratified. The compensation of our named executive officers has been approved on an advisory basis. The frequency of [audio distortion] executive officers has been approved on an advisory basis as one year. The final tally of the votes will be kept with the company's records and filed within four business days on Form 8-K with the SEC.
This concludes the business portion of the meeting, and the formal meeting is now adjourned. We will now conduct a brief question and answer session. As a reminder, for the purposes of today's meeting, we welcome only those questions from stockholders about the proposals put before the stockholders at this meeting. We request that all stockholders abide by the rules of conduct. Each stockholder may ask no more than one question. If questions are received on substantially similar topics, we may answer in a single response. Questions that are irrelevant or inappropriate will not be addressed. You may submit questions via the annual meeting portal if you logged into the meeting using your 16-digit control number. I will now turn it over to Jonathan to conduct the Q&A session based on any questions received in the portal.
There are no questions in the queue at this time. If you have a question after the annual meeting, you may reach out to investor.relations@galaxy.com. I will turn it back over to Mike for closing remarks.
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our annual meeting. I want to thank you for attending and your continued support of Galaxy Digital.
This now concludes the meeting. Thank you for joining, and have a pleasant day.