Morning. I want to welcome you to our annual stockholders meeting and express our appreciation for your attendance here today. I am Brian Casey, the Chief Executive Officer. Joining me virtually today is Jill Meyer, our Corporate Secretary, Terry Forbes, our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, members of our board of directors, Randy A. Bowman, Ellen Masterson, Hale Hoak, Katherine Murray, and Janice Ryan. We also have other guests joining us virtually today that I would like to introduce. Chris Billy, Partner with BDO, our independent auditor, Bryn Sappington, Partner with Norton Rose Fulbright, our outside counsel, Robert Johnson, our Inspector of Elections with the Carideo Group. As indicated in our notice of annual meeting of stockholders and proxy statement, we will be voting on four matters today.
Number one, the election of six directors, Brian Casey, Ellen Masterson, Randy Bowman, Hale Hoak, Katherine Murray, and Janice Ryan. Number two, the ratification of the appointment of BDO USA, P.C. as our independent auditors. Number three, the approval of the 12th Amended and Restated Westwood Holdings Group Stock Incentive Plan. Four, a non-binding advisory vote on the company's executive compensation. Thanks to everyone for being with us today. I wanna let everyone know that the polls are open for voting on these matters. If any stockholder has not voted or would like to revoke his or her proxy, you can do so by clicking on the vote button in the lower right-hand corner of your screen.
You can enter or change your vote at any time until we declare the polls closed toward the end of the meeting, so that we can tabulate votes. You will need to enter your control number to vote. If you have any questions as we proceed through the meeting, please enter your question in the chat window on your screen. Please state your name, so we may include it in the minutes of the meeting, and we will endeavor to address your question if it meets the requirements stated in the rules of conduct and procedures. I'd like to now formally call the meeting to order and call on Terry Forbes to present the necessary documents for this meeting.
Thank you, Brian. I have a copy of the notice of the annual meeting of stockholders to be held today, April 30th, 2026 , together with a proxy statement for this meeting. I also have an affidavit from an officer of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., certifying that the notice of the meeting and proxy statement were mailed to all stockholders of record as required by law. I also have a complete list of all the stockholders in alphabetical order, which has been certified by American Stock Transfer as showing those who own stock of the company as of the close of business on March 3rd, 2026 , which was the record date fixed by the board of directors to designate those stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at this meeting.
According to the list of stockholders, there were 9,487,973 shares of common stock issued and outstanding on the record date and entitled to vote at this meeting.
Thank you, Terry . Jill, please incorporate those documents in the minutes of this meeting. I hereby appoint Robert Johnson as inspector of votes for this meeting. Jill, please incorporate his oath of office in the minutes of the meeting. A preliminary tabulation of the proxies received indicates a total of 8,031,296 shares of common stock represented at this meeting by proxy. This is 84.6% of the total shares eligible to vote. A quorum is therefore present. This meeting is duly constituted. As previously stated, four proposals are described in this year's proxy statement. The proposals are, number one, the election of six directors, Brian Casey, Ellen Masterson, Randy Bowman, Hale Hoak, Katherine Murray, and Janice Ryan. The ratification of the appointment of BDO USA, P.C. as our independent auditors.
The approval of the 12th Amended and Restated Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan. A non-binding advisory vote on the company's executive compensation. I entertain a motion to approve proposals one through four.
I move that proposals one through four described in the company's proxy statement for the annual meeting of stockholders be approved.
I second the motion. Thank you. As a reminder, the polls are open for voting on these matters and will be closing in a moment. The polls are now closed for voting, and the inspector may tabulate the ballots. Terry, will you please present the results of the balloting?
Mr. Chairman, all proposals presented at this meeting have received the necessary votes required by law and therefore are approved.
Thank you. There being no further business to come before this meeting, I declare the meeting adjourned.
That concludes our meeting today. You may now disconnect.