Good morning. I'm Art Penn, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital as Presiding Officer and in keeping with the digital approach to this year's meeting. It is now 09:46 a. M. Eastern Standard Time on 02/09/2021.
And I hereby call this virtual meeting to order and welcome you to the twenty twenty one Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company. On behalf of management, I'd like to thank those stockholders who are personally present by webcast or telephone today for your attendance and interest. I also want to thank the many stockholders who sent in proxies. I would now like to take this opportunity to introduce you to members of the Board of Directors of the company, Adam Bernstein, Marshall Brozos, Jeff Flug, Sam Katz, who are in attendance by webcast or telephone at this meeting. Please note that if you encounter any technical difficulties throughout the course of the meeting, you may call the technical support number provided on the login page of the web portal.
Also present by webcast or telephone today is the company's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Aviv Efrat our Chief Compliance Officer, Guy Talarico compliance representative, Craig McCordy and Tom Friedman, Secretary of the meeting. The directors of the company, myself and Mr. Efrat will be available today to talk with you about the progress of the company during the past year and to answer any questions you may have. In addition, present by webcast or telephone today from RSN US LLP, the company's independent auto firm are Adam Barelli, Mike Weber and Matt Thomas, who will be available at a later point in our meeting to respond to any questions you may have. The company has appointed Mr.
Thomas Tye, a representative of Broadridge Financial Solutions, to act as Inspector of the Election. A copy of the Inspector's Oath of Office will be filed with and made part of the minutes of this meeting. We will now begin the meeting. I call Mr. Friedman to present certain items in connection with the holding of this meeting.
Thank you, Mr. Penn. A list of the stockholders of record who are entitled to vote at this meeting, which has been prepared in accordance with Maryland corporate law and the bylaws of the company, together with copies of the notice of annual meeting and proxy statements, the letter to the stockholders, proxy cards and the 2020 annual report on Form 10 ks of the company are available for inspection through the web portal during the course of this meeting. An affidavit of distribution to stockholders of record as of 12/01/2020 for the company is also available and will be filed with and made a part of the minutes of this meeting. After the formal meeting has been adjourned, we will provide time for general questions.
Only validated stockholders may ask questions through the Ask a Question field on the web portal. Please note that no questions may be submitted via the listen only conference call. Out of consideration for others, please limit yourself to one question. Please note that this meeting is being recorded. However, no one attending via the webcast or telephone is permitted to use any audio recording device.
Thank you, Mr. Friedman. For purposes of voting at this meeting, proxies have been solicited by the Board of Directors of the company and the shares owned by stockholders of the company may be voted and represented at this meeting with respect to matters involving the company which such stockholder owns shares pursuant to its proxy. Mr. Tai has informed me that we have a quorum present today for the conduct of business.
We will now move to the actual business of the meeting. I now declare this meeting duly convened, properly organized and competent to transact business. I will now open the floor to the consideration of the two items of business described in the notice of the annual meeting. To consider and vote upon the election of two directors to the Board of Directors of the company, each of whom will serve for a term of three years until the twenty twenty four Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until a successor is duly elected and qualifies. The person is nominated by the Nominating Corporate Governance Committee of Santa Barbara Clothiery Capital and its full Board of Directors are Mr.
Marshall Brozest and Mr. Samuel Katz. The second order of business on our agenda is the proposal to ratify the selection of RSM US LLP to serve as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending 09/30/2021. Are there any discussion, comments or question on the two proposals which were set forth in the company's proxy statement? It is now 09:49 a.
M. Eastern Time on 02/09/2021, and the polls are now open. For those of you who have not submitted a proxy may vote, and those of you who have submitted a proxy but would like to change your vote, you may do so now by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions there. Information regarding the election of directors is provided in the proxy statement that accompanied the notice of annual meeting, and accordingly, I will dispense with any preliminary explanation. Since discussion is now complete, I declare the polls open for balloting.
The polls are now closed. We will take a moment while the Inspector of Election counts the ballots and proxies. The Inspector of Election has notified me that the ballots and proxies have been counted. Will the Secretary of the meeting please present the results of the balloting?
I report that the results of the balloting as provided by the Inspector of Elections are as follows. One, each of Mr. Marshall Brozost and Mr. Samuel L. Katz have been elected as a Class one Director of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Limited for a three year term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders in 2024 and until a successor is duly elected and qualifies.
Two, RSM US LLP has been ratified to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm for PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Limited for the fiscal year ending 09/30/2021.
Thank you, Mr. Friedman. On the basis of reports provided by the Inspector of Elections and the Secretary of the meeting, I declare that proposals one and two, which have been presented for PennantPark Floating Rate Capital at this time have been accepted by the stockholders of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. There being no further business, I declare the Annual Meeting of Stockholders is hereby adjourned. We would now like to open things up for stockholder questions and comments.
We will take questions from the validated stockholders that are being entered today through the Ask a Question field on the web portal. No questions may be submitted via the listen only conference call. Please note we will attempt to answer as many questions as time allows, but only questions that are germane to the meeting will be addressed. I see that we have no further questions at this time. I hereby close the meeting and thank you for your participation today.
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating.