AGM 2018

Jun 21, 2018

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Pure Storage's 2018 annual meeting of stockholders. This meeting is now called to order. My name is Charles Strong Carlo, CEO of Pure Storage, and I will chair this meeting today. I'm joined by John Cal Grove, the Founder and CTO of Pure Storage as well as Joe Fitzgerald, our Vice President and General Counsel. This meeting is being held by live webcast which enables a broader stockholder access and participation. Our stockholders from around the world will team who are participating in this meeting including Mark Garrett, Jeff Rothschild, Anita Sands, Frank Slutman, as well as Tim Ritters, our CFO. We'd also like to welcome Edwin Harmozian, and Dan Ray representing our independent public accountants, Deloitte and Touche, who will be available to respond to questions during Q And A. Thank you again for joining us and let me now turn the meeting over to Joe, who will conduct the official business of the meeting. Thank you, Charlie. Notice of this meeting has been given in accordance with the company's bylaws and applicable law. The company's agents have certified that notice of this meeting and availability proxy materials was sent to stockholders of record as of April 25, 2018. Copies of the notice and related affidavit will be filed with the meeting minutes. Next, I would like to introduce the Inspector of Elections for today's meeting. Leah Grant, a representative of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. The Inspector of Elections has executed in the north of office, which will be filed with the meeting minutes. Only stockholders of record at the close of business on April 25, 2018 are entitled to vote at today's meeting. The Inspector of Elections has informed us that a majority of the aggregate voting power of the shares entitled to vote are represented at today's meeting either in person or by proxy. Therefore, a quorum is present and this meeting is duly constituted. Today, stockholders will vote on 3 proposals described in the proxy statement dated May 8, 2018. In proposal 1, the Board of Directors is proposing the election of 3 directors Jeffrey Rothschild, Anita Sands and Mike Boulby to serve until our annual meeting of stockholders in 2021. In proposal 2, the Board of Directors is proposing the ratification of the selection of Deloitte and Touche LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for this fiscal year. In proposal 3, the Board of Directors is proposing on an advisory basis and approval of our named executive officer compensation. The Board of Directors recommends that stockholders vote for each of the proposals. A detailed description of each proposal was provided in the proxy statement. We will now proceed with the voting. It is 103 am Pacific Time and the polls are now open for voting on the items of business. You may vote online at any time prior to the closing of the polls. If you have voted by proxy and do not wish to change your vote, your vote will be cast as you previously instructed and no further action is needed. If you wish to change your vote, did not send in a proxy and wish to cash to vote now or have not already cast your vote by clicking on the voting button on the web portal, you may cast your vote now provided you entered the meeting using I would that you complete your electronic ballot at It is the Inspector of Elections has provided me with a preliminary report summarizing the voting on the proposals. I am pleased to report that each of the proposals have also passed. We expect to publicly report the final voting results on a Form 8 K with the SEC. We will ask the Inspector of Elections to Q2 report after final tabulation of the votes that will be filed with the meeting minutes. This concludes the official business for this 2018 annual meeting of stockholders. I will now turn the time back over to Charlie. Thank you, everyone. We appreciate your participation in today's official part of the meeting and the meeting is now officially concluded. We will now Joe, could you please read any questions? No questions have been received and the Q and A session is concluded. I'll hand the time back to Charlie for any final remarks. We thank you again for your participation today and for your continued support of Pure Storage. We hope you will join us at next year's annual meeting. You so much. And the conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect. Right. So if the board members are still on, I just want us to thank them for their. Is the line still left? Hello, anybody on the line? Yes, sir. We're still on Mark Garrett and Matthew Disinger on the line. Okay. So, Mark, thank you so much for for calling in. And I'll thank the other board members as well. Appreciate it. Even though we did have stockholders and public on the line, so it's nice to have Board members call.