Good afternoon, and welcome to the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders of Stardust Power. My name is Johanna Gonzalez, and I am the Director of Investor Relations and Communications. It is my pleasure to welcome you to today's meeting and to introduce Mr. Roshan Pujari, our Chairman, Founder, and CEO.
Thank you, Johanna, and welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us today. This meeting will be conducted in accordance with the agenda and rules of conduct that we have been provided on the virtual meeting website. To maintain an informative, orderly, and constructive meeting, we ask that participants abide by these rules. First, we will conduct the business portion of our meeting. Following a discussion and vote on the business items as set forth in our proxy statement, we will conclude the business portion and answer any stockholder questions of general interest before adjourning. Though we may not be able to answer every question, we will do our best to answer as many as time allows. Should you have a question that goes unanswered, please email investorrelations@stardustpower.com we will do our best to get back to you.
It is now 11:01 A.M. Eastern Time, and this meeting is officially called to order. 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 and will close the polls on all matters immediately after the presentation and discussion of today's proposals. Now, I would like to introduce the other members of the board. Sudhindra Kankanwadi, who serves as the Chair of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Charlotte Nangolo, who serves as a member of our Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. Michael Cornett Senior, who serves as the Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Anupam Agarwal, who also serves as our VP of Finance.
Mark Rankin, who serves as Chair of the Compensation Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. Now, it is my pleasure to introduce the other members of the management team who are joining us today. Pablo Cortegoso, our Chief Technical Officer. Uday Devasper, our Chief Financial Officer. Chris Celano, our Chief Operating Officer. Bruce Czachor, our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Bruce will also act as Secretary of the Meeting and the Inspector of Election and will examine and count the proxies and votes for this meeting. I will now turn the meeting over to Bruce.
Thanks, Roshan. We are also joined here today by our independent auditors, KNAV CPA. They will be available to respond to appropriate questions. An affidavit has been delivered attesting that the proxy materials were made available to stockholders of record on or about April 21st and will be included in the minutes of this meeting. As the Inspector of Election, I have executed a note stating I will faithfully execute with strict impartiality my duties, which will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. The Board of Directors fixed April 6th as the record date for the meeting. Only stockholders of record on that date are entitled to vote at this meeting. As of the record date, there were approximately 9.9 million shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote.
At least the majority of those shares are represented either virtually or by proxy for the meeting. Therefore, a quorum is present for purposes of transacting business. Accordingly, I declare that this meeting is properly constituted and convened. I will present the matters to be voted on. Please note that we will give stockholders an opportunity to comment after all proposals have been presented. Proposal one is the election of the following directors to serve until the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders. Roshan Pujari, Anupam Agarwal, Charlotte Nangolo, Mark Rankin, Michael Earl Cornett Sr., and Sudhindra Kankanwadi. Proposal two is the ratification of the selection of KNAV CPA as the company's independent auditor. Proposal three is the approval of the issuance of shares to Lind Global Asset Management XIII LLC.
Proposal four is the approval of an amendment of the certificate of incorporation to clarify the director removal provision. Proposal five is the approval of the amendment and restatement of the 2024 Equity Incentive Plan. If any stockholder would like to make a comment regarding any of the proposals, please submit your comment through the web portal now.
I see no additional questions on the proposals. We will close the polls shortly. 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. Stockholders who have previously voted and do not want to change their vote do not need to take any further action. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I declare the polls closed.
As the Inspector of Election, I confirm that the preliminary vote report shows that we received votes and proxies sufficient to elect each of the director nominees and approve the other proposals voted on today, except for proposal four, which did not receive sufficient votes to be approved. We will report the final vote results in a Form 8-K. With that, I turn the meeting back to Roshan.
Thank you, Bruce. There being no further business to come before the meeting, the business portion of the meeting is concluded. Now, we would like to open things up for stockholder questions and comments of general interest. Please note we will attempt to answer as many questions as time allows, but only questions that comply with the meeting rules of conduct will be addressed. Any questions that we do not get to can be emailed to Investor Relations email, as mentioned earlier. That concludes our Q&A for today. Thank you for joining.
That concludes our meeting. We thank you for your attendance today and continued support of Stardust Power. Thank you and have a great day.
The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.