Welcome to Workday's 2017 annual stockholders meeting. This meeting is being presented live and is being recorded for future playback. With that, I will hand it over to Anil Buschry, Workday's Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead.
Good morning, and thank you for joining us today for Workday's annual stockholders' meeting. It is 9:01 am and the meeting will now come to order. My name is Anil Bushri and as the Chief Executive Officer at Workday, I will prove presiding over this meeting. Today's virtual meeting is a live audio webcast, allowing for participation by Workday, our stockholders and other interested parties, regardless of their location. In addition to listening to the meeting online, stockholders can submit questions and vote their shares via the annual meeting web portal before the polls close.
Stockholders who would like to ask a question may do so by presenting the question in writing, we're indicated on the webcast portal for the meeting. Stockholders would like to vote can do so on the portal as where indicated for voting. As a reminder, only stockholders may submit a question or vote via the annual meeting portal The polls are currently open and will remain open to the general question and answer session of our meeting. I would like to now introduce our directors and other members of Workday Management who are present today. The directors present are Dave Duffield, Skip Battle, Krista Davies, Mike McNamara, Mike Stankey, George Still, Lee Styslinger and Jerry Yang.
Krista Davies, Mike Stankey and George Stil are the nominees for class 2 directors whom we will be voting on at today's meeting. I would also like to introduce Jim Shaughnessy, Workday's General Counsel and Secretary, who'll be acting as our Inspector of and tabulating the voting results. Mike Magaro, our Vice President, Investor Relations, who will moderate our question and answer session, Mark Peek, our Co President and Shawna Fernandez, our Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations. In addition, David Cabral has joined us from Ernst And Young LLP, Workday's independent auditors and will be available to address stockholder questions as well. This morning, our program will proceed as follows.
First, I will commence the official business portion of the 2017 annual meeting including reviewing the proxy proposals before our stockholders. During this time we will address any questions or comments which relate to the formal business at hand. Following that, I will open the meeting to a general question and answer session. Lastly, Jim will report on the results of the proxy proposals. As a final housekeeping item, I will turn it over to Jim to review our Q and A guidelines.
Jim?
Thank you, Anil. A few matters of protocol will help our Q and Representatives may ask a question or make a comment. 2, questions addressed during the official business portion of the meeting should be relevant to the proposals being voted on. 3, the meeting chairman may rule as out of order stockholder proposals that did not meet the advanced notice provisions of workdays bylaws or proposals that are inappropriate for stockholder action. 4, out of consideration for others, please limit yourself to two questions or comments.
5, questions will be answered at the discretion of the CEO based on determinations of relevancy or appropriateness.
We will now proceed to the official business portion of this meeting. Jim, would you please report on the notice of the meeting and the quorum determination?
The board fixed April 21, 2017 as the record date for this meeting. We've received an affidavit from Broadridge Financial Solutions certifying that, beginning on April 28, 2017, each stockholder of record and each identifiable beneficial owner as of the record date was mailed the official notice of this meeting together with a proxy card and Workday's 2017 annual proxy and a report and proxy statement or instructions about how to access these materials online. On the record date, a total of 131 1,104,121 shares of Class A common stock, representing 1 vote per share and a total of 74,000,000 737,750 shares of Class B common stock, representing 10 votes per share were outstanding. The holders of not less than 195,207,636 shares of common stock are present at today's meeting in person or by proxy. Approximately 98.01 percent of the voting power of the outstanding shares is present at the meeting.
Accordingly, the quorum is present. Anil?
Thank you, Jim. On the basis of Jim's report, the meeting is duly convened. As a reminder, the polls are open and stockholders may vote their shares online anytime during this meeting for the polls close, which will be following our general question and answer session. The first matter being voted upon is the election of 3 class 2 directors to the Board of Directors for the coming year. Krista Davies, Mike Stankey and George still have been nominated as class 2 directors to serve for a 3 year term, expiring at the 2020 annual meeting of stockholders until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
No other nominations for directors were received from stockholders within the period required by Workday's bylaws. Therefore, the nominations are closed. The second order of business concerns the ratification of Workday's independent auditors. The Board of Directors has appointed Ernst And Young LLP as Workday's independent auditors for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2018, and our stockholders have been asked to ratify their appointment. The 3rd order of business concerns the advisory non binding stockholder vote to approve the compensation awarded to our named executive officers in the last fiscal year.
We will now address any questions related to the proxy proposals at hand. Mike, do we have any questions related to
We have received a question related to the proposal. The question, Anil, is does Workday plan to eventually declassify its Board of Directors?
We will take that input under advisement. It's something that we talk about on the during the nominating and governance committees. And But for now, it's going to remain as a classified board.
Great. As we have no other, no further questions related to proposals. I'll turn it back to you, Anil.
Thanks, Mike. As a reminder, it is not necessary to vote online if you have already sent in a completed proxy card or voted online or by tele unless you wish to change your vote. Stockholders would like to vote now may do so by submitting your vote where indicated on the webcast portal for the meeting. The polls will remain open during our general Q and A session, which we'll turn to next. Mike?
Thank you, Anil. This question may include various projections and forward looking statements about Workday. These forward looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or resolve to differ materially from those in the forward looking statements. We encourage you to read our periodic reports and filings with the SEC for a description of including, without limitation, those mentioned in Workday's quarterly report on Form 10 Q for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2017, under the heading Risk Factors and in our subsequently filed annual quarterly and current reports. As a reminder, we'll follow the rules of order for this Q And A session that Jim revealed and reviewed earlier.
And Neil, we do have one question for you related to, some of the sales activity over the past year. The question is, Have we announced any Fortune Fifty accounts in the past year? And if you could just provide some insight into the balance of our business between small and medium sized businesses over the last year as well.
So, in the past 12 months, we've announced Walmart, Amazon and Target as well as Boeing as Fortune Fifty new Workday customers, which brings the total to 10 Fortune Fifty accounts that are Workday customers and we're very pleased with that results and expect more to choose Workday in the upcoming years. Our sales force and our company is divided along lines of large enterprise and medium enterprise, medium enterprise typically focus on companies between 1000 employees and 3500 employees and large enterprise 3500 employees and higher more than half of our business comes from the large enterprise market, but the medium enterprise market continues to be a high growth part of our business as well. To this point, we have really not focused on the small business market of less than 1000 employees. Great. Thank you, Anil.
As there are no further questions, our question and answer session is concluded.
I will now turn the the call back to you, Anil, to continue with the business agenda for the meeting.
Thanks, Mike. It is now 9:09 am, and the polls are now closed. Next item on the agenda is the preliminary report of the Inspector of Elections. Any votes collected before the polls close, but not reflected in the preliminary report will be reflected in the final report of the Inspector. Jim, please present your preliminary report.
Thank you, Anil. I've determined that Krista Davies, Mike Stankey and George still, each have received at least 98% of votes cast for election of class 2 directors. Further, I've determined that in excess of 99 percent of votes present in person or represented by proxy, were cast in favor of the ratification of the appointment of Ernst And Young LLP. I've also determined that nexus of 99% of the vote present in person or represented by proxy were cast in favor of the advisory vote to approve the compensation paid to Workday's named Executive Officers. Back to you and I.
Thank you, Jim. Based upon Jim's preliminary report as Inspector of Elections, I declare that Krista Davies, Mike Stankey and George Still are elected as class 2 directors to serve for a 3 year term expiring at the 2020 annual meeting of stockholders and until our successors are duly elected and qualified. I further declare that the appointment of Ernst And Young LLP as Workday's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2018, is ratified. In addition, I declare that the compensation paid to Workday's name, Chief named executive officers in the last fiscal year is approved on an advisory basis. This concludes Workday's 2017 annual meeting of stockholders Thank you for your participation in our annual meeting.
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