Good morning, and welcome to the NCR Voyix Corporation 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I will now turn the call over to James Kelly, NCR Voyix's President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the company's Board of Directors.
Thank you, Operator. Good morning. On behalf of the Board and Management, I would like to thank you for attending our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. As we have done more recently, we're excited to hold today's meeting virtually so that our stockholders can participate online regardless of where they are located. You may vote your shares online at any time during today's meeting prior to the closing of the polls. Please note that copies of the meeting agenda, the rules of conduct, and the proxy materials for today's meeting are located on the virtual meeting web portal. We will begin the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders with the business portion of the meeting and will end with a general Q&A session. Please remember that your questions must abide by the rules of conduct published with today's meeting materials.
During the business portion of the meeting, we will try to answer stockholder questions that relate directly to our four proposals being considered and voted upon today. Any other questions that do not directly relate to the four proposals but otherwise follow our rules of conduct for this meeting can be considered during the general Q&A session. Stockholders may submit a question online using their control number. With me today is Kevin Reddy, our Independent Chairman of the Board, who presides over today's meeting, and other members of our Board of Directors. Today, we are also joined by Brian Webb-Walsh, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Kelli Sterrett, our Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary. Kelli will serve as Secretary of the 2026 Annual Meeting.
Also attending are representatives from PricewaterhouseCoopers, our independent registered public accounting firm, and Broadridge Financial Solutions, who will serve as Inspector of Elections for the meeting. I will now turn the floor over to Kelli. Kelli?
Thank you, Jim. We have received a signed affidavit from Broadridge Financial Solutions that notice of this meeting, along with related proxy and annual report materials, were mailed or made available on April 21st, 2026, to NCR Voyix stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 16th, 2026, which is the record date for today's meeting. Based on the affidavit from Broadridge, this meeting is duly called with timely and proper notice. Based on the information provided by Broadridge, we have a quorum of stockholders present to conduct our meeting today. A representative of Broadridge has been appointed to serve as the Inspector of Elections for the meeting in order to tabulate the votes. Today, we have four proposals that will be considered and voted upon during the business portion of the meeting.
For each of these proposals, the holders of the company's common stock and its Series A convertible preferred stock will vote together as a single class, with the holders of Series A convertible preferred stock voting on an as-converted basis. All stockholders with control number and who are entitled to vote at this meeting are able to do so online by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions. Please remember that if you have already authorized a proxy to vote your shares, it is not necessary to vote again. However, if you wish to change your previously cast vote, you may do so by clicking on the voting button and following those same instructions. The polls are open for voting at this time and will remain open until we conclude our presentation of the four matters to be voted on at this meeting.
We will advise you when the polls are about to close. We encourage you to vote promptly. Moving to the agenda, there are four proposals this year. Following presentation of all four items, we will endeavor to answer questions from stockholders that directly relate to these proposals. The first item of business is the election of our eight director nominees, each to serve for a term ending at our 2027 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. The nominees for election are Jim Kelly, Janet Haugen, Irv Henderson, Kirk Larsen, Laura Miller, Kevin Reddy, Laura Sen, and Jeffrey Sloan. The Board recommends that you vote for each of the nominees.
Item two is to consider and vote upon the approval on a non-binding advisory basis of the 2025 compensation of the named executive officers, which is described in the proxy materials. While non-binding, this vote will give our Compensation and Human Resource Committee and the Board of Directors insight into investor sentiment about our executive compensation philosophy, policies, and practices. This advisory vote will allow our Board of Directors to consider stockholder feedback when making future executive compensation decisions. The Board recommends that you vote for this proposal. The third item of business is to consider and vote upon the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the company for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026.
The Board recommends that you vote for the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers. The fourth item of business is to consider and vote upon the NCR Voyix Corporation 2026 Stock Incentive Plan, as more particularly described in the proxy materials.
The 2026 Stock Incentive Plan is intended to replace the NCR Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan, as it will otherwise expire in May 2027. The Board recommends that you vote for this proposal. We have not received any questions from stockholders that directly relate to the proposals being considered at this meeting. That concludes the presentation of each of the business items. The polls are about to close, so if you have not yet voted, please do so now. We will now pause for 60 additional seconds to allow stockholders time to vote, commencing now. The time is 9:37 A.M. Eastern Time, and the polls are now closed. The Inspector of Elections has delivered his preliminary report, and I will now announce the results.
Based on the preliminary report, each of the eight director nominees has received a majority of the votes cast in favor of his or her election and has been elected as a Director of the company to serve for a term that will expire at the company's 2027 annual meeting of stockholders and when his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. The proposal to approve the 2025 compensation of our named executive officers received more than a majority of the votes cast in favor of the proposal and has been approved. The ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026, received more than a majority of the votes cast in favor, and the appointment has been ratified.
Finally, the proposal to approve the NCR Voyix Corporation 2026 Stock Incentive Plan received more than a majority of the votes cast in favor of the proposal and has been approved. We will file the final report of the Inspector of Elections with the records of this meeting. The final tabulation of votes will appear in a Form 8-K that the company will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission within the next four business days.
Thank you, Kelli. With that, the business portion of the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders has concluded, and the meeting is now adjourned. We will now take a few minutes for other questions. If any stockholders wish to submit a question online, please do so now. We will answer questions that comply with the rules of conduct.
Jim, we have one question from a stockholder. The question is: What is Voyix doing to make sure the shareholders get a fair share price in case of a buyout offer? Where will Voyix and the industry be in five years?
The way I would divide that is, on the first one, we wouldn't discuss buyout offers. I think the effort of the company is to continue down the path that we have started since the spin, which is to return the company to growth, and to invest, as summarized in our Q1 earnings release. In my section, in particular, we summarized all the work that has been done over the last three years to reposition the company. Selling assets or divesting assets were no longer core to the company strategy, which is as a SaaS company servicing enterprise customers across the world in both restaurant and retail. In terms of a five-year outlook, our focus, as I said, is on growth, and we communicate that in each of our earnings calls. Beyond the guidance that we provided this year, we don't provide a five-year outlook.
Great. We've received no other questions.
Okay. Seeing no further questions in the queue, and as Kelli has said, I want to thank everyone for participating in our annual meeting and for your continued support of NCR Voyix.
This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.