Hello, welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. You can submit questions or comments at any time by clicking on the message icon on the meeting webpage. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Mr. Kevin M. Sheehan, Chair of the Board of the company. Mr. Sheehan, the floor is yours.
Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Today's virtual-only meeting is a live audio webcast. I will now call the meeting to order. I want to welcome all of you to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Dave & Buster's Entertainment Incorporated. I am Kevin Sheehan, Chair of the Board of Directors of Dave & Buster's Entertainment. I will now introduce and turn the meeting over to Rudy Rodríguez, our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary.
Thank you, Kevin. At this time, I would like to introduce the rest of the members of the board of directors, all of whom are present here today. James P. Chambers, Scott I. Ross, Nathaniel J. Lipman, Allen R. Weiss, Charles H. Protell, Tarun Lal. Additionally, the following other executive officers of the company and certain other employees of the company are present this afternoon. Antonio Bautista, President, International Development. Kevin Fish, Chief Technology and Digital Officer. Darin Harper, Chief Financial Officer. Les Lehner, Chief Development and Procurement Officer. Brian McCleary, Chief Operations Officer, Dave & Buster's. Putnam Shin, Chief Growth and Entertainment Officer. Jeremy Tucker, Chief Marketing Officer, and Tony Wehner, President, Main Event. I will act as Secretary of the meeting. A representative of Computershare, our transfer agent, has been appointed to act as inspector of election.
Brittney Tanner and Hannah LeConte, representatives from KPMG LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm, who worked on the audit of the company's financial statements for the year ended February 3rd, 2026, are also present at the meeting. During the question and answer period at the end of the meeting, they will be available to answer questions concerning the Company's Financial Statements. I will now review the Rules of Conduct and procedures for today's meeting. If you are a shareholder, you should have registered as a shareholder on the website prior to the meeting to participate. If you registered as a guest, you will only be able to listen. If there are any of you who have not registered as a shareholder and desire to do so at this time, please go back and follow the steps to register.
The agenda for the meeting is available by clicking on the link on the left side of the webpage. The Rules of Conduct for the annual meeting are also available by clicking on the link at the same place on the webpage. To conduct an orderly meeting, we ask the participants abide by these rules. If you need a copy of the Annual Report or Proxy Statement, the links are also available on the left side of the webpage. As stated in the rules of conduct, shareholders will have the opportunity to ask questions at the appropriate time. If you desire to ask a question during the meeting, you may submit one by clicking on the message icon and following the instructions. We will review all questions as they are raised.
If your question regards a business item on the agenda that is before us and it is appropriate to be recognized and addressed at the meeting, pursuant to our meeting rules, we will read the question and answer it at the appropriate time. All dialogue will be conducted through the question and answer format for the meeting. As stated in the rules of conduct, we ask that you restrict your remarks to the business items on the agenda that are before us. Thank you for your cooperation with these rules. At this time, I can confirm that I have delivered an Affidavit of Mailing establishing that notice of this meeting was duly given. A copy of the Notice of Meeting and the Affidavit of Mailing will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting.
All shareholders of record at the close of business on April 23rd, 2026, are entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. As Secretary of the meeting, I confirm that there are sufficient shares represented at the meeting, either in person or by proxy, to constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting business. Accordingly, this meeting is duly convened for purposes of transacting such business as may properly come before it. As the next order of business, I will now describe the matters to be voted on at today's meeting. The first proposal before the shareholders of the company is the election of seven directors to serve until the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2027 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The Board of Directors and Management of the company recommend the election of the following persons as directors of the company:
James P. Chambers, Tarun Lal, Nathaniel J. Lipman, Charles H. Protell, Scott I. Ross, Kevin M. Sheehan, and Allen R. Weiss. The second proposal before the shareholders of the company is the ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2026 fiscal year. The appointment of KPMG LLP was recommended to the Board of Directors by the company's Audit Committee. Please note that this resolution is non-binding on the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee, will be reviewed by the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee as part of their continued evaluation of the company's independent registered public accounting firm. The third proposal before the shareholders of the company is an advisory vote on the compensation awarded to our named executive officers.
Shareholders are asked to approve the compensation awarded to the company's named executive officers as disclosed in the proxy statement distributed to you, including the compensation discussion and analysis, compensation table, and narrative discussion. Please note that this resolution is non-binding on the Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee, but will be reviewed by the Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee as part of their continued evaluation of the company's compensation program for the company's named executive officers. We will now review any questions that have been submitted that are related to the business on the agenda for today's meeting. Please allow us a few moments to review and respond to each question. Any question that is not related to today's agenda items will be reserved for the post-meeting Q&A session as time permits. Mr. Sheehan, there are no questions at this time. The polls are now open.
If you have not voted or wish to change out your vote, you may do so now by clicking on the link provided online. If you previously voted by proxy and do not wish to change your vote, you do not need to take any further action. We will pause briefly for any final votes to be tabulated. The online voting is now closed. We will disclose the final results of the votes for each of the proposals from today's meeting on a current report on Form 8-K to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within four business days from today's meeting. Mr. Sheehan? It seems that Mr. Sheehan has dropped off. I will announce that the official portion of the meeting is adjourned.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead, Mr. Sheehan.
Our meeting is adjourned, and our program today is concluded. Thanks for attending, and thanks for your continued support of the company.
This concludes the meeting. You may now disconnect.