Good morning, and welcome to this year's annual meeting. I'm Mark Manheimer, NETSTREIT's President and Chief Executive Officer. I'm also the presiding officer at this annual meeting. Andy Blocher, the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary of the company, will act as the Secretary of today's meeting. We have adopted a series of safeguards that we believe provide all stockholders the same rights and opportunities to participate in this meeting as they would at an in-person meeting. I would like to take a moment to address some administrative matters. In order to conduct a fair, orderly, and constructive meeting, this meeting will follow the agenda and be governed by the rules and procedures of conduct for this meeting. A copy of the agenda and the rules and procedures of conduct can be found on the virtual meeting portal.
If you have a question, please submit your question through the virtual meeting portal as outlined in the rules and procedures of conduct for this meeting. These questions will be reviewed by management and will be addressed in accordance with the rules and procedures of conduct for this meeting. I would also like to remind you that we released our first-quarter results on April 29th, 2021, and followed with the filing of our quarterly report on Form 10-Q. We refer you to our first-quarter earnings materials, which are posted on our website for information regarding our financial condition. We appreciate your cooperation in helping us conduct an orderly meeting. The polls for voting on the agenda items are open today at 9:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce our other directors that are participating via teleconference.
Todd Minnis is the Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of EB Arrow. Michael Christodoulou is the Manager of Inwood Capital Management LLC. Heidi Everett is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Star Cypress Partners, LLC. Matthew Troxell was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of AEW Capital Management, LP until his retirement in December 2019. Lori Wittman is an advisor to Big Rock Partners Acquisition Corp. Robin Zeigler is Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Cedar Realty Trust . I'll turn it over to Andy Blocher to conduct the voting.
Thank you, Mark. Barry Shapero, agent for Broadridge, is participating via teleconference as our Inspector of Elections, and will assist us in certifying the voting results for all proposals. I will now briefly discuss the procedures for this meeting. We will shortly review each item of business on the agenda. After all the items of business on the agenda have been completed, we will read and respond to stockholder questions submitted in accordance with the rules and procedures of conduct for this meeting. The record date for the stockholders meeting was the close of business on March 25th, 2021. Based on information received from the Inspector of Elections, stockholders entitled to cast the majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at this meeting are present in person or by proxy. Therefore, a quorum is present. We will now present the matters to be voted on.
All stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting have the ability to do so online from now until the closing of the polls. If you have previously authorized a proxy to vote your shares, it is not necessary to vote again unless you wish to change your vote. You're entitled to one vote for each share registered in your name or for which you hold a legal proxy. We will read and respond to stockholder questions or comments in accordance with the rules and procedures of conduct of the meeting after all proposals have been presented. After we've reviewed all proposals on the agenda and answered any questions, we will close the polls and the Inspector of Elections will provide his preliminary report.
The first item of business today is to elect seven individuals to our board of directors, each of whom will serve until the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualifies. Mark Manheimer, Todd Minnis, Michael Christodolou, Heidi Everett, Matthew Troxell, Lori Wittman, and Robin Zeigler have been nominated by the board. The board recommends that you vote for the election of each nominee. The second item on the agenda is the ratification of the retention of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2021. I would like to introduce [Tom Emman, who is participating via teleconference and would be pleased to answer any appropriate stockholder questions during the question and answer period.
The board recommends that you vote for the ratification of the retention of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2021. We will now read and respond to stockholder questions or comments submitted in accordance with the rules and procedures of conduct of the meeting. We have not received any stockholder questions or comments, and now we will move to finalizing. All matters to be voted on have now been presented. The polls are about to close. Thank you for your participation. The polls are now closed. According to the preliminary voting tabulations, Mark Manheimer, Todd Minnis, Michael Christodolou, Heidi Everett, Matthew Troxell, Lori Wittman, and Robin Zeigler have been elected directors of the company. We will now like to turn the meeting back to Mark Manheimer.
Thank you everyone for attending today's meeting and for the interest you have shown in NETSTREIT. This meeting is now adjourned.