Good morning. Welcome to the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders of Sera Prognostics, Inc. I'm Kim Kamdar, Chair of the Board of the company. It's my pleasure to welcome all of you. It is 9:00 A.M. Mountain Time, and in accordance with the notice of the meeting, I call to order the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders of Sera Prognostics. We have chosen to hold this meeting virtually, which we believe will improve our shareholders' access to the meeting at the present time. It is our intention to conduct this meeting in accordance with the agenda currently shown on your screen or available in the Meeting Materials section of the meeting website. There will be an opportunity for questions about the two proposals as they are presented. If you have not yet submitted questions related to these specific proposals through the website, please do so now.
To the extent these questions comply with the rules of conduct of the meeting, management will address them at the appropriate time. An opportunity is also provided at the end of the meeting for general questions and discussion. Please refer to the rules for conduct attached to the agenda in asking any questions. Before proceeding to the business of the meeting, I would like to introduce some people involved in today's meeting. First, I would like to introduce our current directors. Jane Barlow, Gregory Critchfield, Sandra Lawrence, Zhenya Lindgardt, who is also serving as President and CEO, Mansoor Raza Mirza, Joshua Phillips. Directors who are candidates for re-election in this meeting are myself, Kim Kamdar, and Sandra Lawrence. Complete biographies of these two nominees are contained in our proxy statement. Also present today are members of company management.
Austin Aerts, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, Benjamin G., Secretary and General Counsel, and David Zachrison, Senior Director and Corporate Controller. Also attending today's meetings are representatives of Ernst & Young LLP, the company's auditors. Mr. Jackson is serving as the inspector of election for this meeting. If questions arise during the discussion period that these individuals should appropriately address, they will be glad to respond. This meeting is held pursuant to a printed notice mailed on or about April 24, 2026, to stockholders of record on April 13, 2026, each of whom is entitled to vote. The count of shares present immediately prior to the commencement of the meeting indicated 25,773,200 shares of the company's voting capital in person or by proxy. This is 67.48% of the outstanding voting stock of the company. I hereby declare a quorum present at the meeting.
On behalf of the board of directors of the company, I would like to thank all stockholders who returned their proxies. I would also like to point out that most of you who returned proxies authorized the persons named in the proxy to vote for the election of the nominees for director. Those of you who would like to vote today may do so by clicking on the bottom of your screen entitled Vote Here. The first matter to be acted by the stockholders is the election of two directors, each to serve until the annual meeting to be held in 2029. I will introduce the nominees and detailed information about them is in the proxy statement. I hereby declare them duly nominated. The company has not received any timely notice of any other nominations as required under the bylaws. Therefore, I declare the nominations closed.
The stockholders who are voting live in the meeting on this proposal should vote now. The polls will be open for the next few minutes to vote on the election of directors as well as the next matter. After voting has been completed on all matters on the agenda, votes will be counted. The other matter submitted to the board of directors of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of Sera Prognostics. The audit committee was assigned the responsibility of recommending auditors to be appointed by the board of directors. This committee consists entirely of directors who are independent of corporate management. The audit committee recommends the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young to audit the financial statements of Sera Prognostics for the year ending December 31st, 2026.
The stockholders who are voting live in the meeting on this proposal should vote now. Will the secretary please report the results of the balloting?
Thanks, Kim. We have completed a preliminary count of the ballots, and more than a plurality of the votes cast have been voted for the election of the two directors named in the proxy statement and standing for re-election for terms expiring on the date of the annual meeting in 2029. 24,232,323 shares, being more than a majority of the stock of the company, have been voted in favor of. 856,113 shares have been voted against, and 44 shares have abstained from ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young to audit the financial statements of the company for the year ending December 31st, 2026.
I hereby declare that the nominees for director have been duly elected and that the appointment of Ernst & Young to audit the financial statements of the company has been duly ratified. After the final tabulation has been completed, it shall be placed with the reporting. The final results of the vote will be filed within four business days. This concludes the formal portion of our meeting. I would again like to express my sincere appreciation to the stockholders who attended the meeting and as well their proxies. The meeting is now formally adjourned. However, we will be available in a moment to discuss questions which any of you may have. Please be advised that management's responses to questions at the end of the meeting, if any, may contain forward-looking statements in compliance with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
I am advised to point out that the actual results can vary from results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such a difference include those set forth therein, including Form 10-K for the year ended December 31st, 2025. We have now come to the part of the agenda providing for general questions and discussion. If you have a question, please type it into the box and click Submit. Questions that comply with the rules of conduct for this meeting, if any, will be read and responded to by company management.