Good morning. It is 8:30 A.M. Pacific Time. I would like to officially call to order and welcome you to QuidelOrtho Corporation's 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I am Ken Buechler, the Chairman of the Board and a Director of QuidelOrtho. I will act as Chair of today's meeting. It is my pleasure to welcome you here today for this meeting. We are hosting a virtual stockholder meeting today, which allows us to reach a greater number of our stockholders without incurring travel time and costs. In order to provide for the orderly conduct of the meeting, we will follow the meeting agenda and the rules of conduct that are available on the web portal.
Please note that this meeting is being recorded by the company. No one attending via the webcast or telephone is authorized or permitted to use any audio recording device. You may vote your shares online at any time during this meeting prior to the closing of the polls. The polls opened at the beginning of the meeting. We will close the polls on all matters immediately after the presentation of today's proposals. We appreciate your interest in the company's affairs. We are glad that you are with us today. We have stockholders attending via the web portal and the dial-in number that we have provided.
As is our custom, we will conduct this meeting by attending to the business and proposals properly brought before this meeting. Please note that while we welcome questions from our stockholders, questions should be limited to the proposals under consideration today. If you would like to submit a question, you may do so by following the instructions on the web portal. We do not intend to answer questions unrelated to the business before this meeting today. We are happy to engage with stockholders.
We encourage you to contact us through our investor relations website at ir.quidelortho.com or by contacting Juliet Cunningham at ir@quidelortho.com if you have any questions or comments unrelated to the business before this meeting today. At this time, I would like to introduce you to the other members of the board: Brian Blaser, who is also our Chief Executive Officer, John Chiminski, Evelyn Dilsaver, Scott Huennekens, Ed Michael, Mary Lake Polan, Ann Rhoads, Ken Widder, and Joe Wilkins. Also present from QuidelOrtho are Joe Busky, Chief Financial Officer, and Juliet Cunningham, Vice President, Investor Relations.
Nate Sisitsky, our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, is also present with me today. Nate will serve as Secretary at the annual meeting. Representatives of KPMG, our auditors, are in attendance today, as well as Aaron Briggs from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, our outside legal counsel. I would now like to ask Nate to report on the procedural matters for today's annual meeting.
Thank you, Ken. Today's meeting is being called pursuant to the notice and proxy statement dated April 27th, 2026, which was made available to all stockholders entitled to vote as of the record date of April 20th, 2026. The Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Alden from Broadridge to act as the independent Inspector of Election for this meeting. He has taken the Inspector of Election oath of office. On the record date for this annual meeting, there were outstanding and entitled to vote at this meeting approximately 68 million shares of common stock.
I have been informed by the Inspector of Election that more than 50% of the shares entitled to vote at this annual meeting are represented either virtually or by proxy. Because a quorum is present for the transaction of business, this meeting is properly convened, and we may proceed with the business of the meeting.
Thank you, Nate. I will now present the proposals to be voted upon. After I review the proposals, we will proceed with the voting of shares by proxy and will thereafter close the polls. Accordingly, if you have not already voted your shares, I encourage you to vote now before the polls are closed. Any stockholder who hasn't yet voted or wishes to change their vote may do so by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions there. The three proposals to be voted upon today are further described in our proxy materials.
Please note that we will give stockholders an opportunity to comment on the proposals themselves after all proposals have been presented. Proposal one is the election of 10 directors. Our nominees for director are Brian J. Blaser, Kenneth F. Buechler, John R. Chiminski, Evelyn S. Dilsaver, R. Scott Huennekens, Edward L. Michael, Mary Lake Polan, Ann D. Rhoads, Kenneth J. Widder, and Joseph D. Wilkins Jr. If elected, each director will serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified, or until their earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, or removal.
Proposal two is the advisory approval of the compensation of our named executive officers, as discussed in our proxy statement. This proposal, commonly known as say on pay proposal, gives our stockholders the opportunity to express their views on our executive compensation. Proposal three is the ratification of the selection of KPMG as our independent registered public accounting firm for our 2026 fiscal year. The board recommends a vote in favor of each of the 10 director nominees and in favor of the other two proposals.
If any stockholder would like to make a comment or has a question regarding any of the proposals, please submit it through the web portal at this time. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I now declare the polls closed. On behalf of QuidelOrtho, I want to express our appreciation to all stockholders who voted their shares. Nate, do we have preliminary voting results?
Yes, we do, Ken. We've been informed by the Inspector of Election of the preliminary voting results, and each of the 10 directors has been elected, and the other two proposals have been approved or ratified.
Thank you. I hereby declare and report that all 10 nominees for director of QuidelOrtho have been duly elected. The stockholders, on an advisory basis, have approved the compensation of the company's named executive officers and the selection of KPMG as QuidelOrtho's independent registered public accounting firm for our 2026 fiscal year has been ratified. We will report the final voting results in a Form 8-K to be filed within four business days of today. Since there is no further business that may properly come before this meeting, I declare that the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders of QuidelOrtho is now adjourned.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.