Good day, and welcome to the Zscaler annual meeting of stockholders. I would now like to turn the conference over to Jay Charjorie. Please go ahead.
Good afternoon. I am Jay Chaudhry, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zscaler Inc. And it's a pleasure to welcome you to Zscaler's first annual meeting of stockholders. The meeting is now called to order. I will act as chairperson of this meeting.
I've asked Robert Schlossman, our chief legal officer and secretary to record the minutes of this meeting. Before proceeding further, let me first introduce the other directors and officers of the company. Our current directors are Karen Lesin, Charles, Jen Carlo, Andrew Brown. Scott Darling, Nehal Raj, Ahmed Senha, Lane, Best. The officers here with us today are Raimo Kanesa, our chief financial officer.
Robert Schlossman, our chief legal officer and secretary. And Bill Choi, our vice president, of Investor Relations. And also with us, us are, Chris Tifens and Courtney Bloom, representing Price WaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mark Bodler, representing Wilson Sincini, Goodrich and Rosetti, PC, are outside corporate counsel. And Kathy Wheaton, as a representative, of Broadridge Financial Solutions, our Inspector of Elections.
I will now turn the meeting over to Robert Shossman who will conduct a formal portion
portal for anyone to ask questions during the course of the meeting. Questions are to be restricted to the procedures for the meeting and the proposals under consideration. If you have such a question, please enter it into the online portal and we will do our best to answer it. Any other questions? Will not be addressed during the meeting.
If you have a question unrelated to the meeting, through the company's investor relations page on our website and, for appropriate, a member of Zscaler management team will arrange a mutually convenient time to discuss the matter. The annual meeting is being held for the following purposes. Number 1, To elect 2 class 1 directors to hold office until the 2021 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are elected and qualified, subject to their earlier death resignation or removal. And number 2, to ratify the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending July 31, 2019. Each of these proposals is described in detail in the company's proxy statement dated November 8, 2018.
In order to ensure that the business of the meeting proceeds in an orderly fashion, we ask that you please observe the rules and procedures provided to you on the online portal. The annual meeting is being held in accordance with the company's by law in Delaware law. During the formal meeting, we will address the matters described in the proxy statement. We will then complete the balloting process. And announcement will be made regarding the preliminary results and then the meeting will be adjourned.
As a reminder, Any submitted questions are to be restricted to the procedures of the meeting and the proposals under consideration. Thank you for your understanding. I have proof by Materials was mailed on or about November 8, 2018 to all stockholders of record at the close of business on October 25th 2018, which is the record date for the meeting. The affidavit together with the copies of the notice of internet availability of proxy materials proxy statement and proxy will be filed within minutes from the meeting. We have appointed Cathy Wheaton a representative of Broadridge Financial Solutions to act as Inspector of Election for this annual meeting.
The Inspector of Election has signed an oath of office which will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. The Inspector Collection has advised me that we have present at the meeting sufficient voting power of the stock issued and out standing and entitled to vote on business before the meeting, the constitute a quorum. Therefore, the meeting is duly constituted and we may proceed with business. I will now briefly describe the voting procedures you may vote by proxy and by online ballot Each stockholders entitled to one vote for each share of our common stock held as of the record date. If you have previously turned in your proxy and you do not intend to change your vote, you do not need to complete another proxy or vote online.
Your vote will be counted as indicated in your proxy. If you have previously turned in your proxy and you would like to change your vote, you can change your vote by voting through the meeting portal during this meeting. If you are eligible to vote and have not submitted your proxy, or if you The votes cast today will be counted in the final tally, along with proxies previously received. I will announce the preliminary results of the voting at the end of the meeting. If there are any questions regarding the voting procedures We will now pause to allow them to be entered into the online portal.
No questions were received and we'll now continue with the business of the meeting. It is now 1:0:6 pm Pacific Time on December 18, 2018, and the polls for each matter to be voted on in this meeting are now open. The first item of business is the election of directors. 2 class 1 directors will be elected in today's meeting. Those 2 director nominees receiving the highest number of votes represented by the voting power of the shares present at this meeting and entitled to vote thereon will be elect as directors.
Directors elected at today's meeting will hold office until the 2021 annual meeting of stockholders or until they're select their successors are elected and qualified subject to their earlier death resignation or removal. As indicated in the company's proxy statement, Karen Blazings and Charles Dean Carlo have been nominated by the company's Board of Directors to serve as class 1 directors. Both of these nominees are currently serving as directors of the company. The Board of Directors recommends that stockholders vote in favor of these nominees and the proxy solicited by the board will be voted in favor of these nominees. If there are any questions concerning director elections for this meeting, We will now pause to allow them to be entered into the online portal No questions were received and we will now continue with the business of the meeting.
The next item of business is to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2019. The Audit Committee of the Board approved PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2019. The Board of Directors is now asking the stockholders to ratify this selection. Approval of this proposal requires the affirmative vote of the majority of the voting power of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting. Entitled to vote thereon.
The Board of Directors recommends the stockholders vote in favor of this proposal and the proxy solicited by the board will be voted in favor of this proposal. Chris Stevens and Courtney Blum are present from PricewaterhouseCoopers, and are available to answer any questions that you may have at this time. No questions were received and we will now continue with the business of the meeting. If you have not voted and intend to vote, please do so now in accordance with the instructions provided. You must submit your vote in order for it to be counted as the polls will be closed as the polls will close momentarily.
The Inspector of Election will not accept ballots, proxies or votes, or any change or revocation submitted after the closing of the poll. We now pause It is now 1:10 pm on December 18, 2018, and the polls for each matter to be voted on at this meeting are now closed. No additional ballots, proxies or votes, and no changes or revocations will be accepted. We will now pause while the preliminary results are confirmed. At this time, I will provide you with a preliminary report on the voting results as provided to me by the Inspector of Election.
With regard to proposal number 1, the 2 director nominees Karen Blazing and Charles Giancarlo received the highest number of affirmative votes and have been elected to serve as class 1 directors. With regard to proposal number 2, the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2019, has been ratified by a majority of the voting power present and entitled to vote thereon. These are the preliminary results of voting. The final count may vary following final examination of proxies and ballots, The final results of voting, including any votes recorded during this meeting, will be set forth in the report of the Inspector of Election and will be included in the minutes of this meeting. The final results will also be reported in a Form 8 K to be filed with the Securities And Exchange Commission.
The formal portion of this meeting is now adjourned, With the formal businesses meeting now completed, I turn the meeting back over to Jay Chowri, Zscaler's Chief Executive Officer.
Thanks, Robert. Before we formally adjourned this meeting, I want to personally thank Lane Bess for his many years of service to Zscaler and to our board of directors. We wish Lane well on his future endeavors. I want to thank all of you for attending today's annual meeting. We very much appreciate your attendance.
And as always, we thank you for your continued support of Zscaler. The meeting is now adjourned.
The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation.