Good morning and welcome to the Sprout Social, Inc. 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. It is my pleasure to introduce Heidi Jonas, General Counsel and Secretary of Sprout Social.
Thank you for the introduction. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Sprout Social 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. An agenda that outlines the order of business for this meeting has been made available on our virtual annual meeting web portal, which is hosted by Broadridge Financial Solutions. This web address is contained in our notice for this meeting, which began mailing to stockholders on April 7th, 2026, and to stockholders of record as of March 27th, 2026. A copy of this notice and our 2026 proxy statement can be found on the virtual annual meeting web portal. This meeting is being audio webcast-live. A copy of it will be posted in 24 hours at the same web address as this meeting. As noted on the agenda, following the conclusion of the meeting, we will have a brief Q&A session for stockholders.
Questions may be placed by stockholders throughout this presentation in the virtual meeting web portal, where they remain in queue until the Q&A session. I would now like to introduce my colleagues who are in attendance. With us today are members of the Sprout Social Board of Directors, as well as Ryan Barretto, Chief Executive Officer, Alex Kurtz, Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Development, and Lexi Johnson, Investor Relations Manager. I would also like to recognize Lee Eslyn from PricewaterhouseCoopers, who is with us today. We appreciate the hard work of your team. I will serve as Secretary of the meeting and will now guide you through the formal portion of the meeting.
Please note that I have delivered an affidavit of the mailing of the notice of the meeting, which states that notices of this meeting commenced mailing on April 7th, 2026, to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 27th, 2026, the record date for this meeting. This affidavit will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. I've been advised by our Inspector of Election, Dane Allen of American Election Services, that immediately prior to these proceedings, a majority of the voting power of our issued and outstanding shares of common stock are represented by proxy at today's meeting. Since the majority of the company's voting power is represented here today, a quorum is present, and the business of this meeting may proceed. At this time I call the meeting to order.
I'd like to remind everyone that the rules of conduct have been posted on the virtual meeting web portal. These rules will also apply to the Q&A session. The polls are now open. When the polls close, I will announce the results. Many of you have already submitted a proxy card online or through the mail and therefore intend to have your shares voted by the legal proxies. If you have provided your proxy card, your shares will be voted in accordance with your instructions. If you have not already voted and wish to vote, or if you wish to change your vote, the polls will remain open until we announce the closing of the polls. You may vote by clicking on the voting button on the virtual meeting web portal and following the instructions there.
Stockholders who have sent in proxies or voted via telephone or the web and do not want to change their vote do not need to take any further action. The first item of business is the election of two directors to the Sprout Social Board of Directors. The candidates who have been nominated to serve as directors by Sprout Social's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Board of Directors are Peter Barris and Karen Walker. The proxy statement made available to you describes their qualifications. The Sprout Social Board of Directors recommends you vote for each of these candidates. The second item of business is to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. Their appointment is discussed in our proxy statement.
The Sprout Social Board of Directors recommends you vote for the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers. The third item of business is an advisory vote to approve the compensation of our named executive officers, as described in our proxy statement. This vote is more commonly known as say on pay. Sprout Social's Board of Directors recommends you vote for the approval on an advisory basis of the compensation paid to the company's named executive officers. If you wish to vote, please do so now by clicking on the Vote button. I will pause to give stockholders a chance to finish voting. I now declare the polls closed. A voting report dated as of today has been delivered to me by Broadridge and the Inspector of Elections, stating that Peter Barris and Karen Walker have been elected as directors by the stockholders.
Each nominee received the highest number of four votes cast and have been elected as a Class I director. Ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Sprout Social's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026, has been approved by the stockholders with more votes for than against. The compensation of our named executive officers has been approved by advisory vote with more votes for than against. The final results will be detailed in a current report on Form 8-K, which we will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This completes the formal portion of the meeting. Since there are no other matters properly scheduled to come before the meeting, I hereby adjourn the meeting and we'll move to Q&A. For our Q&A segment, please make sure your question follows the rules of conduct which are available on the web portal.
Questions must be brief and relevant to the annual meeting. Also, we can't answer any questions that would solicit material non-public information, such as questions relating to guidance and changes in our business since the filing of our most recent quarterly report with the SEC. Please enter any questions into the Q&A portal now. I'm going to pause to give stockholders time to enter their questions. We're not seeing any questions. We will wait a little longer to give stockholders a chance to submit a question. Given we haven't received any questions related to the meeting, we'll conclude the webcast at this time. Thank you for attending our 2026 annual meeting. We appreciate your support and investment.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.