Good afternoon. I would like to welcome you to the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders for ZoomInfo Technologies. I am Henry Schuck, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of ZoomInfo, and I will be chairing this meeting. Like last year, we are holding this meeting in a virtual-only online format. I am joined today by members of our Board of Directors and members of our Senior Management Team. Our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Ashley McGrane, will act as Secretary of the Meeting. In addition, I am pleased to welcome Ryan Marquez and Chase Jones, representatives from KPMG, our external auditing firm, who are here to answer any appropriate questions. Finally, I'd like to welcome Leah Grant, our Inspector of Elections. Our Secretary has delivered an affidavit of distribution that shows that proper advance notice of this meeting was given to our stockholders.
A copy of the notice of the meeting and the affidavit of distribution will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. All stockholders of record at the close of business on March 17, 2025, are entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, and a list of stockholders of record is available electronically for your review. Our first item of business is to determine whether we have a quorum for the purpose of transacting business. Ashley, do you have a report?
Yes. The stockholders' list shows that holders of 338,415,320 shares of common stock of the company are entitled to vote at this meeting. The Inspector of Election reports that there are represented in person or by proxy at least 286,063,765 shares of common stock, or approximately 85% of all the votes entitled to be cast at this meeting.
Thank you. Because holders of a majority of the votes entitled to be cast at this meeting are present in person or by proxy, this meeting is exclusively convened. So that everyone knows what to expect this afternoon, let me summarize our agenda. First, I've already called the meeting to order and will have Ashley take care of some corporate housekeeping. Second, my colleagues and I will present all of the proposals subject to a vote for your consideration. Then we'll adjourn the formal portion of the meeting and end with a brief question-and-answer session. Ashley, can you please review with our stockholders a few procedural points?
Thank you, Henry. You have each been provided access to the agenda and the rules and procedures for the conduct of today's meeting on the virtual meeting page. The agenda for today's meeting sets forth the proposals for stockholder consideration and the order of business, which will be conducted in accordance with the company's bylaws and the meeting's rules of conduct and procedures. So that we have an orderly meeting, we ask everyone to abide by these rules. You can use the question box on your screen to submit questions at any time during the meeting. We cannot guarantee that we will answer all questions. If we don't get to your question, you are welcome to ask it by following the Contact IR link of the Investor Relations portion of our website, ir-zoominfo.com.
The polls opened at noon Eastern time, and you are able to vote during this meeting until the Chairman closes the polls. Remember, if you already voted in advance by using an online ballot or a physical proxy card or by phone, a vote at this meeting will supersede your earlier vote. So unless you want to change your vote, you do not need to vote again. Finally, I would like to point out that some of our discussion today may include forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements about, among other things, our industry, business strategy, goals, and expectations concerning our market position, future operations and performance, and financial and other operational information. Actual results may differ materially from those projected by any forward-looking statements.
In our annual report on Form 10-K for 2024, filed on February 25 of this year, we included cautionary disclosures regarding forward-looking statements and risk factors that could materially and adversely affect our company and business. For additional information, we refer you to our 10-K and other SEC filings, which are available on our website and on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's website.
Thank you, Ashley. Would you now present the proposals on which we need to vote?
Thank you, Henry. The stockholders have three items of business for their consideration today. The first is to vote to fill four board seats for Ashley Evans, Rob Giglio, Alyssa Gleeson, and Mark Matern's nomination for re-election as Class 2 directors. The second is to ratify the audit committee's choice of our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025, KPMG. The third is to approve, on an advisory non-binding basis, the compensation of our named executive officers. There are no additional candidates or proposals that have been properly brought before the meeting. As a reminder, if you previously voted by proxy, you do not need to vote today unless you wish to change your vote. Let's move on to the first proposal: to re-elect Ashley Evans, Rob Giglio, Alyssa Gleeson, and Mark Matern to the board.
They would continue to serve as Class 2 directors, meaning that their normal term would run until the annual meeting three years from now in 2028. Directors are elected by plurality voting, which means that the nominees receiving the highest number of votes will be elected as directors. The Board of Directors recommends the election of Ashley Evans, Rob Giglio, Alyssa Gleeson, and Mark Matern to the board. If anyone has any questions concerning this proposal, please ask them now. No questions have been submitted, so we will move on to the next proposal. The next proposal is the ratification of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the current fiscal year 2025. The proposal will be approved if supported by the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of the shares represented at this meeting.
The Board of Directors recommends that the stockholders vote in favor of this proposal. If anyone has any questions concerning this proposal, please ask them now. No questions have been submitted, so we will move to the next proposal. The next proposal is to approve, on an advisory non-binding basis, the compensation of our named executive officers. This proposal will be approved if supported by the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of the shares represented at this meeting. The Board of Directors recommends that stockholders vote for the approval on a non-binding advisory basis of the compensation of our named executive officers. If anyone has any questions concerning this proposal, please ask them now. No questions have been submitted, so we will move to voting.
As a reminder, the polls are currently open and will close shortly. If you wish to vote and have not submitted your vote, please do so now. We will now pause for a moment to provide a final opportunity to vote. All right. The polls are now closed. The ballots and proxies will be held by the Inspector of Election.
I note for the minutes that the polls closed at approximately 12:07 P.M. Eastern time. We have confirmed with the Inspector of Election that all of the ballots have been counted.
Thank you, Ashley. Can you report the preliminary results?
Yes, Henry. We have been informed by the Inspector of Election that the nominees for election to the Board of Directors have been duly elected, that the ratification of KPMG LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for the 2025 fiscal year has been approved, that the stockholders have approved on a non-binding advisory basis the compensation of our named executive officers.
Thank you, Ashley. I want to thank our stockholders for their support and for the trust they have put in the ZoomInfo team. We will release the final voting results in the next few days in a Form 8-K. As that was the last formal order of business, I hereby declare the official portion of the meeting adjourned. We will now continue informally with a brief question-and-answer session. Let me turn things over to Jerry Sisitsky, our Vice President of Investor Relations, to help facilitate our question-and-answer session.
Thank you, Henry. We'll now open the floor to questions. The representatives from KPMG introduced earlier are also available to answer appropriate questions from stockholders. Please note that we are unable to answer any questions that do not pertain to the business of this meeting. Seeing no questions have been submitted, I will now turn the meeting back over to Henry, our Chairman.
Thank you, Jerry. That was the last item on our agenda and concludes the informal portion of the meeting. I want to thank everyone, especially our stockholders, for their time and participation. It's our pleasure and privilege to be a part of such a great company, and we look forward to your continued support as we continue on this journey.
This now concludes the meeting. Thank you for joining and have a pleasant day.
The host has ended this call. Goodbye.