We have adopted an agenda for the program this morning. In accordance with the agenda, we will proceed as follows. I will conduct official business of the 2025 annual meeting during this portion of the meeting. All discussions will be limited to official business at hand, and participation will be limited to stockholders of record and their proxies if you wish to participate in this meeting. Please follow the instructions on your screen. We will now proceed to the business portion of the meeting. We have an affidavit from VStock Transfer certifying that on or about April 28, 2025, each stockholder of record was mailed an official notice of the meeting and other material necessary to vote at this meeting. A list of stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting has been available at the company's headquarters for the past 10 days for inspection for any stockholders entitled to vote.
VStock Transfer, LLC has examined the proxies received, reports that shares entitled to 7,377,102 votes were approximately 84.29% of the total votes of holders of shares of our common stock entitled to vote at this meeting and are present and represented by their proxies filed by myself. A quorum is present at this meeting and may now proceed with business. The company has appointed John Smith to serve as the inspector of elections on behalf of the company for this meeting, and he will tabulate the results of the voting. To expedite the flow of business at this meeting, we intend to adhere to the following order of business. Each of the matters to be discussed and acted upon by the stockholders today will be moved and discussed in order set forth in the proxy statement.
The actual vote on each item will be deferred until all matters have been acted upon and have been discussed. The first matter to be voted upon in the election is the five directors of the board of directors. Nominations are now in order for the candidates for directors to serve until the 2026 annual meeting and until a successor is elected and qualified.
To put in nomination, the names of the slate of the directors listed in the proxy statement, I hereby nominate the following persons to be elected as directors to serve until the 2026 annual meeting: Jack Ross, Alfred Baumbusch, Paul Sorrell, Nitin Kaushal, Scott Woodburn.
Since no other nominations of persons for the election to the board of directors were received in a timely manner pursuant to the company bylaws, the nominations are now closed. The next order of business concerns the proposal to ratify the selection of the company's independent public accountants. The audit committee of the board of directors has selected the firm of RBSM as the company's independent public accountants for the company's fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.
On behalf of the audit committee of the board of directors, I move that the selection of RBSM LLP as the company's independent public accountants for the 2025 fiscal year be ratified.
A motion has been made to ratify the audit committee's selection of RBSM LLP. The next order of business concerns the proposal to amend Synergy CHC Corp.'s 2024 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the aggregate number of shares of common stock available for issuance under the Synergy CHC Corp. 2024 Equity Incentive Plan to 2,252,102 shares of common stock.
I hereby move that this proposal be approved.
The next order of business concerns the proposal to amend the Articles of Incorporation to provide the authority to issue up to one million shares of Preferred Stock.
I hereby move that this proposal be approved.
Since no other proposals for business to be transacted at this meeting were received in a timely manner pursuant to the company's bylaws, we will now proceed to the vote on the previously discussed motion. The polls for voting on each matter to be voted on at this time are now open. It is not necessary for the stockholders to vote by ballot if they are already sent in their proxy cards unless they wish to change their vote. If you are a record holder of VStock and would like to change your vote, please follow the instructions under the Resource button tab. If you are a beneficial street name holder and wish to change your vote, please provide your legal proxy and voting form to vote@vstocktransfer.com. At this time, I now declare the polls are closed and ask the inspector of elections, John Smith, to provide his preliminary report.
According to the preliminary report of the inspector of elections based on the proxy holders and stockholder ballots, the persons nominated for the board of directors have been elected to serve as directors of the company until the 2026 annual meeting. The proposal to ratify the selection of RBSM as the company's independent public accountants has been approved. The amendment to the Synergy CHC Corp 2024 Equity Incentive Plan has been approved, and the amendment of the articles of incorporation has been approved. We intend to file with the SEC within four business days a current report on Form 8-K to report the final voting results at this meeting. Thank you all for joining us. This concludes our 2025 annual meeting of the stockholders.