Good morning, welcome to the 2026 Annual Stockholders of Vitesse Energy. I'm Jamie Benard, CEO and President of Vitesse. It's my pleasure to welcome you here today for the meeting. This meeting is being hosted virtually, which allows us to reach a greater number of stockholders. We'll conduct the business portion of the meeting first and answer any questions at the end of the meeting. Though we may not be able to answer every question, we'll do our best to provide a response to as many as possible, and you may contact Ben Messier, Director of Investor Relations and Business Development, with any follow-up. In keeping with the digital approach to this year's meeting, it is now 9:00 A.M. Mountain Time on January 5th, 2026, and this meeting is officially called to order. I'm joined on the call today by my fellow board members.
Also present is Jimmy Henderson, CFO, and Ben Messier, Director, Investor Relations and Business Development. Now it's my pleasure to introduce Vitesse's Corporate Secretary, Mike Wozniak. Mike will act as secretary of the meeting. I will turn to him with any procedural issues that may arise.
Thank you, Jamie. We are also joined here today by our independent auditors, and they will be available during the question and answer session after the meeting to respond to appropriate questions. Finally, the company has appointed Broadridge Financial Solutions to act as Inspector of Election. Tracy Oates from Broadridge is here with us today and has taken the oath of Inspector of Election earlier today. After the formal meeting has been adjourned, we will provide time for general questions. Only validated stockholders may ask questions in the designated field on the web portal. Out of consideration for others, please limit yourself to one question. Please note that this meeting is being recorded. However, no one attending the meeting via the webcast or telephone is permitted to use any audio recording device.
The board of directors has fixed April 10th, 2026, as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting. An affidavit has been delivered attesting to the fact that either, one, a notice of internet availability of the notice of the meeting, the proxy statement, and the annual report on Form 10-K to the stockholders. Two, the documents themselves were mailed on or about April 17th to all stockholders as of the record date and will be incorporated into the minutes of the meeting. The stockholder list shows that as of the record date, there were 41,712,424 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at this meeting. We are informed by the Inspector of Election that there are represented in person or by proxy shares of common stock representing 30,202,928 votes or approximately 72% of the voting power on the record date.
Since this clearly represents more than a majority of the voting power of all issued and outstanding stock entitled to vote on the record date, a quorum is present for purposes of transacting business. Now, I will present the matters to be voted upon. Please note that we will give the stockholders an opportunity to comment on the proposals themselves after all proposals have been presented. Proposal number one is the election of directors to hold office until the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Proposal two is the ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of Vitesse. If any stockholder would like to make a comment regarding any of the proposals, please submit your comment through the web portal now. Seeing none, I'll turn this back over to our President and CEO, Jamie.
Thanks, Mike. It is now 9:04 A.M. Mountain Time on January 5th, 2026, and the polls are now open. 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 sent in proxies or voted by telephone or internet 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 now declare the polls for the 2026 annual stockholder meeting closed.
All right. We've been informed by the Inspector of Election that the preliminary vote report shows that the nominees for the election of the board have been duly elected and Deloitte & Touche LLP has been ratified as the independent registered public accounting firm of Vitesse. We will be reporting the final vote results in a Form 8-K to be filed within four business days. All right. With that, I will turn the meeting back over to Jamie Benard, our CEO and President.
Thank you, Mike. There being no further business to come before the meeting, the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders of Vitesse is now adjourned. We'd like to open things up for stockholder questions and comments. Please note we will attempt to answer as many questions as time allows, but only questions that are germane to the meeting will be addressed. Any questions that we do not get to can be sent to Ben Messier for follow-up. Okay. There being no questions, I'd like to thank everyone for joining today, and we look forward to the future of Vitesse.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.