Good day, and welcome to Jabil's annual shareholders meeting. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Adam Berry, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.
Thank you, and good morning, everyone. On behalf of the entire board, our officers, and employees, I'd like to thank you for attending our annual meeting of shareholders. We are pleased to conduct our annual meeting virtually to allow our shareholders to participate easily and safely. I'd like to begin by introducing the Jabil officers who will be participating in today's meeting: Mark Mondello, Chief Executive Officer and member of the board, Mike Dastoor, Chief Financial Officer, Susan Wagner- Fleming, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary. Additionally, all of our board members are with us virtually today. We will introduce each of them during the formal portion of our meeting. Also with us online today are Steve Nichols and Travis Elrod of Ernst & Young LLP, Jabil's independent registered public accounting firm.
Both will be available to answer questions concerning Ernst & Young and its services to the company. During the course of today's meeting and during today's presentation and during the Q&A portion, we may use non-GAAP financial metrics. We may also make forward-looking statements regarding future events or Jabil's future financial performance. We remind you that such statements are merely predictions, and actual events or results may differ materially. Please refer to our SEC filings, including our most recent 10-K for the year ended August 31st, 2020, which identifies important factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. With that, following these opening remarks, I'll hand it over to Susan Wagner- Fleming, our Corporate Secretary, who will lead the formal portion of today's meeting.
Shareholders may submit questions on each of the proposals in the space provided on the virtual meeting screen. Shareholders wishing to ask other questions using the online platform may do so as well during the Q&A section with Mark and Mike. Please note there will be no formal business update today. On September 24th and December 17th, 2020, Jabil Management presented an in-depth and updated outlook for our company during our investor briefing and subsequent first quarter fiscal 21 earnings call. I encourage you to visit our investor relations website where you can view the materials from this event and others. Following the event, an archived replay of this webcast will be posted on Jabil's website in the investor relations section. I'd also like to invite anyone with further questions to contact me directly via phone or email. You can find my contact info on our website.
With that, it's now my pleasure to hand the meeting over to Susan.
Thank you, Adam. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for attending today. The meeting is now called to order. We have appointed Beth Vanderbeck to serve as the inspector of election for this meeting. Following the meeting, Ms. Vanderbeck will deliver a report that includes the final count of shares eligible to vote at today's meeting, which will be filed in the company's records. Broadridge has certified that notice of this meeting was duly given and that on or about December 9th, 2020, a proxy statement, proxy card, and the 2020 annual report were furnished to all shareholders of record as of November 30th, 2020. The notice of annual meeting also stated the date, time, and meeting purpose, along with the web address for participating in today's virtual meeting.
I am pleased to announce that a sufficient number of the voting shares of the company are present by proxy to constitute a quorum. A copy of the notice, proxy in the form of proxy, as well as an affidavit of distribution of Broadridge Financial Solutions will be made a part of the record of this meeting. Ms. Vanderbeck, would you please confirm that a quorum of the shares entitled to vote at this meeting is represented?
Yes, I so confirm.
Thank you. I therefore declare this meeting to be duly constituted. Voting is now open. At this time, all shareholders entitled to vote at this meeting have the ability to do so online. If you haven't yet voted or if you want to change your previously cast vote, please do so via the online platform used to access this meeting. Please remember that if you've already voted by proxy, it is not necessary to vote again. The polls will close after the review of matters to be voted on, and the inspector of election will provide her preliminary report. We'll move now to a review of the proposals. There are five proposals to be considered during this meeting, all of which were described in detail in the proxy statement furnished to shareholders.
The first item of business is to elect 10 directors to serve until the annual meeting of shareholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. The nominees for director are all current members of our board, and I'd like to introduce them now: Timothy Main, Chairman of the Board since his retirement from Jabil in 2013, and a director since 1999. Tom Sansone, Vice Chairman of the Board since his retirement from Jabil in 1999, and a director since 1983. Mr.
Sansone is also chair of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mark Mondello, Jabil CEO and a director since 2013. Steve Raymund, our director since 1996 and chair of our Audit Committee. David Stout, our director since 2009 and chair of our Compensation Committee. Martha Brooks, our director since 2011. Anousheh Ansari, our director since 2016 and chair of our Cybersecurity Committee. John Plant, our director since 2016. Christopher Holland, our director since 2018. And Kathy Walters, our director since October of 2019. No other director nominees were received prior to the deadline specified in our bylaws and noted in last year's proxy statement. Nominations for director, therefore, have already been closed. Our second item of business today is to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as Jabil's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending August 31st, 2021.
The third item of business is to approve Jabil's executive compensation on an advisory basis. The fourth item of business is to approve the Jabil Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan. And finally, our fifth item of business today is to approve the amendment to the Jabil Inc. 2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan to increase the shares available for issuance thereunder. No notices or proposals for new business to be considered at this annual meeting were received by the deadline established in our bylaws. Accordingly, the floor is now closed to any additional motions or proposals. I will now pause to allow anyone voting today to finish. Voting is now closed. Ms. Vanderbeck, as the inspector of election, would you please provide the preliminary voting results?
Certainly, Ms. Wagner Fleming. Based upon a preliminary tabulation of the proxies and votes received, I can report that each of the nominees for director has been elected by a majority of the votes cast with respect to the director's election. Additionally, the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2021, has been ratified by a majority of the shares present or represented by proxy and actually cast on this proposal. The proposal to approve on an advisory basis Jabil's executive compensation has been approved by a majority of the shares present or represented by proxy and actually cast on this item. Additionally, the Jabil's Inc.
2021 Equity Incentive Plan has been approved by a majority of the shares present or represented at the annual meeting and actually cast on this item, and that the total votes cast on this item constitute at least a majority of the shares that are present and entitled to be voted on such specific proposal. Finally, the amendment to the Jabil Inc. 2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan has been approved by a majority of the shares present or represented at the annual meeting and actually cast on this item, and that the total votes cast on this item constitute at least a majority of the shares that are present and entitled to be voted on such specific proposal.
Thank you, Ms. Vanderbeck. A final tabulation of the votes will be included in a certificate of inspector of election to be filed at the minutes of this meeting and will also be reported in a current report on Form 8-K. This concludes the formal portion of this meeting, and I move for adjournment.
Second.
The formal portion of this meeting is now adjourned. At this time, I'll hand the call over to Adam to begin the Q&A session with Mark Mondello and Mike Dastoor. Adam?
Thanks, Susan. I now invite you to ask any questions you may have regarding the company and its business. Please follow the instructions provided on the virtual meeting screen to submit for questions. Please give us a moment while we pull for questions. It looks like there are no questions today. We thank you for your time and hope you have a great day. Thank you.
This now concludes the meeting. Thank you for joining, and have a pleasant day.