Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the nLIGHT meeting. I will now turn the call over to Scott Keeney.
Good morning, and welcome to nLIGHT's 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. My name is Scott Keeney, and as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of nLIGHT, I will be presiding over this meeting. Thank you for joining us today. It is now 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time, and the meeting is officially called to order. Julie Dimmick, the company's Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, will serve as Secretary of the meeting and record the proceedings. She will also serve as the Inspector of Election. Also present are other members of our Board, our Chief Financial Officer, Joseph Corso, our Chief Accounting Officer, James Nias, and certain other officers and employees of the company.
In addition, Ryan Marquez and Ryan Hoover from KPMG, the company's independent registered public accounting firm, and Victor Nilsson of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the company's outside counsel, have joined us today. Additional information relating to our Board and the various committees of the Board is available in the proxy statement pertaining to this meeting. I will now ask Julie Dimmick, as Secretary of the meeting, to proceed with the next order of business.
Thank you, Scott. This morning, our program will proceed as follows. First, we will conduct the official business of the 2026 annual meeting. Second, after we have completed the official business of the meeting, we will open up the meeting to a general question- and- answer session with stockholders on the company's business. Questions may be submitted online. We have a quorum present, which allows us to proceed to the official business of this meeting. We also have an affidavit from Broadridge Financial Solutions certifying that a notice of Internet availability of proxy materials relating to the 2026 annual meeting was first mailed and deposited with the U.S. Post Office on April 24th, 2026 to stockholders of record as of April 6th, 2026. The Board of Directors has appointed me to serve as Inspector of Election. I will tabulate the results of the voting.
I have signed an oath of Inspector of Election, which will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. I will now turn to the official business of this meeting. As you know from the proxy statement, there are three proposals before this meeting today. I will briefly describe each of the proposals, and then we'll wait for questions and comments. After that, we will open the polls for voting. Proposal one. The first proposal to be voted upon is the election of one Class II Director. The Director elected at today's meeting will serve for the three-year term expiring at the 2029 annual meeting of stockholders and until his respective successor is duly elected and qualified. The candidate who has been unanimously nominated by the current Board of Directors is Geoffrey Moore. The nominee is able and willing to serve if elected.
Information about the nominee is contained in the proxy statement. If the nominee receives any affirmative vote, he will be elected as a Class II Director. The Board of Directors recommends a vote for the election of Geoffrey Moore. The second proposal is to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2026 fiscal year. The Audit Committee of the Board has appointed KPMG as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2026 fiscal year. As the company's independent registered public accounting firm, KPMG will audit the company's consolidated financial statements and also may perform certain non-audit services that are pre-approved by the Audit Committee of the Board. Stockholder ratification of the employment of KPMG is not required by our bylaws or by any other applicable legal requirement.
However, the Board is seeking ratification of the appointment of KPMG as a matter of good corporate governance. If the stockholders do not approve the appointment of KPMG as our independent registered public accounting firm for the 2026 fiscal year, then the Audit Committee may reconsider the appointment. The Board of Directors recommends a vote for this proposal. The third proposal is to approve, on an advisory non-binding basis, the compensation of the company's named Executive Officers as described in the proxy statement. Our named Executive Officers for fiscal year 2025 were Scott Keeney and Joseph Corso. Information about the compensation of our named Executive Officers is included in the proxy statement. Stockholder approval of the compensation of the company's named Executive Officers is not required by our bylaws or by any other applicable legal requirement.
Because this vote is advisory only, it will not be binding on the company, the Board of Directors, or the Compensation Committee of the Board. However, the Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee of the Board will consider the outcome of the vote when determining future compensation of the company's named Executive Officers. The Board of Directors recommends a vote for this proposal. We will now proceed with voting. It is now 9:05 A.M. Pacific on June 5th, 2026, and the polls for each matter to be voted on at this meeting are now open. It is not necessary to vote if you have already submitted a proxy card by Internet, telephone, or mail unless you wish to change your vote.
If there is any stockholder present who wishes to vote at this time, please click on the Vote Here button, which can be found on the right-hand side of the screen. It appears all stockholders have submitted their proxies or ballots. If there are no objections, I now announce that the polls for each matter voted on at this meeting are closed. Noting that it is 9:06 A.M. on June 5th, 2026. No additional ballots, proxies, or votes, and no changes or revocations will be accepted. As the Inspector of Election, I will now tabulate the votes and summarize the tabulations of the results of the vote on each proposal. The preliminary tabulations of results are as follows.
On proposal one, election of Geoffrey Moore as a Class II Director, our preliminary tabulation of votes received immediately before and at this meeting indicate that Geoffrey Moore, the Director named in the proxy statement, has been elected to serve for the three-year term expiring at the 2029 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his respective successor is duly elected and qualified. On proposal two, our preliminary tabulation of votes received immediately before and at this meeting indicate that the appointment of KPMG as the independent registered public accounting firm for the company for the 2026 fiscal year has been ratified. Finally, on proposal three, our preliminary tabulation of votes received immediately before and at this meeting indicate that the compensation of our named Executive Officers, as described in the proxy statement, has been approved. These are the preliminary results of voting.
The final results of voting, including any ballots and proxies recorded during this meeting, will be set forth in the report of the Inspector of Election and will be included in the minutes of the meeting. We also will publicly report the final voting results from today's meeting on a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission within four business days of today's meeting. This now concludes the official business scheduled for this 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I will hand it back over to Scott Keeney.
At this time, we will take questions from our stockholders. As a reminder, questions may be submitted online by stockholders of record or valid proxy holders for stockholders of record. At this time, I see no questions. Thank you for attending this Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The meeting is now adjourned.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.