Hello, and welcome to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Sight Centers Corporation. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Mr. David Lukes, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Lukes, the floor is yours.
Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is David Lukes. I'm the President and Chief Executive Officer and Director of SITE Centers Corp, and I will act as Chairman of today's Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Before attending to the formal business at hand, I want to take this opportunity to welcome you and thank you for your attendance at today's virtual annual meeting.
I would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the other directors and officers of the company who are in attendance at today's meeting. The directors are Teri Ahern, Chairman of the Board Linda Abraham Jane DeFlorio Thomas Finney Victor MacFarlane Alexander Otto and Don Sweeney. Officers are Chief Financial Officer, Conor Fennerty Chief Accounting Officer, Chris Avici and General Counsel and Secretary, Aaron Kitlowski. I would also like to acknowledge Ian Nelson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the company's independent public registered accountants. Mr.
Nelson is in attendance at today's meeting and is available to respond to any appropriate questions you have during the general Q and A session at the conclusion of this meeting. Mr. Fennerty and Mrs. Vesey will act as inspectors of election and Mr. Kitlowski will act as Secretary of today's meeting.
I would also like to note for the record that Computershare, the company's transfer agent, coordinated the tabulation of the proxy votes for today's meeting. In order to provide a fair and orderly meeting, we will conduct this meeting in attendance in accordance with the rules of conduct, which have been posted to the meeting's website. During the meeting, shareholders will have the opportunity submit questions relating to the meeting agenda in writing by clicking on the message icon in the upper right hand corner of the meeting page. We will do our best to respond to appropriate questions during the Q and A session at the conclusion of the meeting. Please note that we do not intend to answer questions that are unrelated to the proposals to be taken up at this meeting or for which answers are clearly provided in the company's proxy statement for this meeting.
For an update on our business, we invite shareholders to listen to a replay of our recent Q1 earnings call held on April 22, which can be found on the Investors page of our website. You are entitled to participate in, vote and submit questions at the meeting if you were a shareholder as of the record at the close of business on March 15, 2021, the record date, or hold a legal proxy for the meeting provided by your bank, broker or nominee. If you have already sent in your proxy card or voted by Internet or telephone, you don't need to vote here at the meeting. If you haven't voted yet or you would like to change your vote, you can do so through the website used to access this meeting. A list of holders of the company's common shares at the close of business on the record date is available for examination by registered shareholders through the meeting's website.
A notice of this meeting together with the company's proxy statement, form of proxy and annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, were mailed on or about April 1, 2021, to each to cause the affidavit of an officer of Computershare showing the timely mailing of these items to be filed with the records of the company. The inspectors have reported that at least 195,337,750 common shares are represented at the meeting out of a total of 211,024,000 554 common shares outstanding and entitled to vote. Therefore, a quorum is present. In accordance with the notice of the meeting, the first order of business is the election of 8 directors. The Board of Directors has nominated each of the following 8 persons to serve as Directors of the company until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until a successor is duly elected and qualified or until the earlier resignation, removal from office or death.
Linda Abraham, Terrence Ahern, Jane DeFlorio, Thomas Finney, David Lukes, Victor MacFarlane, Alexander Otto and Don Sweeney. The second order of business is to vote on a proposal to approve on an advisory basis the compensation of the company's named executive officers. The 3rd order of business is to vote on a proposal to ratify PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the company's fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. These proposals are described in detail in the company's proxy statement, and the Board recommends that shareholders vote for each of the director nominees named at Proposal 1 and for Proposals 23. The polls are now open for voting on the matters to be considered at this meeting.
Shareholders of record and beneficial owners holding a legal proxy from their bank broker or nominee may vote on the website at this time. Let me remind you that if you have already voted, there is no need for you to vote on the website unless you wish to change your vote. Proxy holders will vote your shares as indicated on the proxy. I now declare the polls closed and would ask the inspectors of election to tabulate the votes and report to the secretary.
The inspectors of election have performed a preliminary vote count and have reported that the shareholders have voted to elect each of the 8 director nominees to the company's Board of Directors to approve on an advisory basis the compensation of the company's named executive officers and to ratify PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the company's fiscal year ending December 31, 2021.
I direct the secretary to file the report of the inspectors of election with the records of the company together with a list of the shareholders as certified by an officer of Computershare. In the coming days, the company will file a Form 8 ks with the Securities and Exchange Commission in order to report the final tabulation of those cast on matters brought before today's meeting. Now that we have concluded the formal portion of the meeting, I'm happy to answer any questions relating to the business of this meeting that anyone wishes to ask. Questions can be submitted by clicking on the message icon in the upper right hand corner of the website used to access this meeting. We will briefly pause in order to receive and assemble questions.
There being no questions, this concludes the meeting. Operator?