Hello, and welcome to the annual meeting of stockholders of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. During the meeting, we'll have a question and answer session. You can submit questions or comments at any time by clicking on the Q&A tab. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Mike Hsu, Chairman and CEO of Kimberly-Clark. Mr. Hsu, the floor is yours.
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Kimberly-Clark's annual meeting. This meeting is now called to order. Before we get started with the business of the meeting, I will comment briefly on our recent performance and priorities for 2024. Looking back over the five years since I stepped into the role as CEO, I am incredibly proud of our team. We've made significant enhancements to our business and how we're serving our customers and our consumers. In 2023, we advanced the company's strategic foundation and financial position, and we're now well positioned to build on the consumer centricity we've established over the course of our 150-year history. On March 27th, we held our Investor Day, where we announced our strategy to leverage our strong foundation and launch Kimberly-Clark into its next chapter of growth by Powering Care.
In this phase of our journey, we will focus on accelerating pioneering innovation to capture the significant growth available in our categories by solving big, unmet consumer needs, optimizing our margin structure to deliver superior consumer propositions at every rung of the product ladder, and wiring our organization for growth to make our enterprise stronger and faster to amplify our competitive advantage. I'd encourage you to review the Investor Day materials on our website. I would also like to take a moment to express our deep gratitude to our Lead Director, Mike White, who will be retiring from the board at the conclusion of this meeting after nine years of dedicated service to Kimberly-Clark and our stockholders. Mike's strategic vision, leadership, and camaraderie will be missed from the board's deliberations, and we thank him for his significant contributions.
I would like to now introduce Grant McGee, our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, who will serve as Secretary for today's meeting.
Thanks, Mike, and good morning, everyone. I will first go over a few housekeeping matters. Today's virtual-only meeting is a live webcast. Through the meeting portal, you will find our agenda and rules of conduct. The portal also has links to our annual report and our proxy materials for the meeting. The Inspectors of Election is in attendance and has confirmed that a quorum is present. If you have not voted or wish to change your vote, you may do so during the meeting through the virtual meeting portal by clicking on the Vote icon located in the upper right-hand corner. However, any stockholder who has already voted and does not want to change his or her vote need not take any further action. The polls are now opened. We will accept votes until the polls close later in the meeting.
Feel free to ask questions at any time during the meeting by clicking the Message icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. We'll respond to any questions or comments later in the meeting after we close the poll. I'll now present the proposals for today's meeting. We have 4 proposals today. First, the election of 12 directors. Second, the ratification of the selection of our independent auditors. Third, the approval of the compensation of our named executive officers. And finally, the adoption of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit certain officer liability and make other technical and administrative updates. Each proposal is described in detail in our 2024 proxy statement. Mike, I will now ask for a motion that the 4 proposals listed on the agenda be approved.
Moved.
I second the motion. I would now like to introduce our director nominees, who are all in attendance on today's call. Sylvia Burwell, John Culver, Mike Hsu, Mae Jemison, Deeptha Khanna, S. Todd Maclin, Deirdre Mahlan, Sherilyn McCoy, Christa Quarles, Jaime Ramirez, Dunia Shive, and Mark Smucker. Also joining this meeting are representatives of Deloitte & Touche, our independent auditors. Bill McFarland, who is the partner in charge of our 2024 audit, is in attendance today. I now declare that the polls are closed. The Inspectors of Election have advised me, based on preliminary results, that all 12 director nominees have been elected to the board and our stockholders have approved the proposals to ratify our independent auditors, approve our executive compensation, and adopt the amended and restated certificate of incorporation to limit certain officer liability.
We will announce the final voting results in a current report on Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC within four business days of today's meeting. That concludes the formal business. We'll now look for any questions you may have about Kimberly-Clark. It appears that no questions have been submitted, Mike, so with that, I'll ask you to adjourn today's meeting.
Okay. Thank you for joining us today, and we also thank you for your continued support of Kimberly-Clark. This meeting is adjourned.
This concludes the meeting. You may now disconnect.