Welcome to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Waste Management Incorporated. I am Tom Wiedemeyer, Chairman of the Board. I will also be serving as Chairman of this meeting. Due to the public health concerns posed by COVID-nineteen, we are conducting our annual stockholder meeting virtually And we appreciate you joining us on this platform. Available on the virtual meeting platform is a copy of our agenda and the rules of conduct that will govern this meeting.
We will conduct the business portion of the meeting first and will answer questions at the end of the meeting. As explained in the rules of conduct, questions must be relevant to the business of the company or this annual meeting and of interest to stockholders in general. Please confine questions to one subject at a time. Multiple questions on the same subject may be summarized and answered together. To allow a fair opportunity for Stockholders to ask questions, we will limit each stockholder to 2 questions.
We may not be able to answer every question submitted. If a stockholder has a question that is not answered during this meeting, we invite you to contact Waste Management's Senior Director of Investor Relations, Mr. Ed Hagel, after the meeting at area code 713 265-1656 or eeglwm.com. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded on behalf of Waste Management. However, no one attending this meeting is permitted to use any recording device.
I would like to thank each of our direct in device. I would like to thank each of our Director nominees for joining us virtually today. Additionally, I would like to acknowledge Mr. Frank Clark. Frank has been a dedicated and valuable contributor to our Board since 2002, including serving as Management Development and Compensation Committee Chair since 2011.
As disclosed in our proxy statement, Frank did not stand for reelection this year due to having reached the retirement age in our corporate governance guidelines. Frank has worked closely with Andreas Gluski in preparation to transition the Management Development and Compensation Committee Chairmanship. On behalf of the Board and the company, I want to extend our tremendous gratitude to Frank and say you will be missed. Also joining us virtually today are the following senior executives of Waste Management and they will be available to address questions at the end of the meeting. Jim Fish, President and CEO John Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Devina Rankin, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Chuck Becker, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer.
Also in attendance and available to answer questions today are Susanna Abbott and Philip Jeffries with Ernst and Young, the company's independent registered public accounting firm. Finally, we welcome Rhonda Carroll, who has been appointed on behalf of Broadridge Financial Services to act as Inspector of Election for today's meeting. To commence the business portion of our meeting, I'll ask Courtney Tippey, our Corporate Secretary, whether today's meeting has been dually called.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Notice and proxy materials for today's stockholder meeting have been provided to our stockholders with a record date of March 17, 2021. Ms. Carroll reports that stockholders owning at least the majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote are present in person or by proxy.
Therefore, Mr. Chairman, a quorum is present and today's meeting is duly called.
The notice for this meeting having been duly made and a quorum present, this meeting is called to order for business. We have 3 items of business for today's meeting. The first item is the election of 9 directors. All of the director nominees are currently serving as directors, including myself. The additional nominees are Jim Fish, Andreas Gluski, Victoria Holt, Kathleen Mazzarella, Shawn Menke, William Plummer, John Pope and Mary Rose Sylvester.
Please see Pages 15 to 19 of the company's proxy statement available by link on the virtual meeting platform for additional information about the nominees' background, experience and committee positions. The other items of business are to ratify the appointment of Ernst and Young as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2021 and to approve on an advisory basis the company's executive compensation. The polls are open for voting. If there is any stockholder who has registered to participate in today's meeting using their 16 digit control number and who has not submitted his or her proxy or who wishes to withdraw his or her proxy and vote in person, please do so now by clicking on the Vote Here button on your screen. Stockholders who have sent in proxies or submitted a proxy via telephone or Internet and do not want to change their vote, do not need to take any further action.
While we allow time for voting, I'd like to remind you that some of the statements made in response to shareholder questions today may be forward looking statements based on current expectations or opinions about future periods. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Please see the risk factors in the company's most recent Form 10 ks available on the Investors page at www.wm.com for a discussion of some of these risks and uncertainties. I hereby declare voting closed. I will now ask our corporate secretary to report the voting results.
I have been advised by the Inspector of Elections that the ballot count confirms that each of the 9 nominated directors has been elected. The stockholders have ratified Ernst and Young LLP is the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2021 and the company's executive compensation has been approved. The final voting results will be published in the company's Form 8 ks that will be filed within 4 business days of this meeting.
Thank you. This concludes the formal business portion of the annual meeting. We will now open the meeting to stockholder questions pursuant to the rules of conduct for the meeting. Any stockholder who has registered to participate in today's meeting using their 16 digit control number may enter a question using the virtual meeting platform. Questions will not be visible to other attendees.
Ed Agle, Senior Director of Investor Relations, will read the questions submitted and direct them to Jim Fish, President and CEO, to take the lead on responding. As there have been no questions submitted, I'll turn the meeting back to Chairman Riedemeyer for adjournment. We have concluded all the business set forth in the notice of the 2021 Annual Meeting stockholders and proxy statement. The meeting is now adjourned. Thank you for attending.