Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Annual General Meeting of HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited. I'm Ed Warner, Chair of HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited. My fellow directors, Anulika Ajufo, Francesca Barnes, Elizabeth Burne, Carolina Espinal, and Steven Wilderspin, are here with me, as is Peter Wilson, who's standing down at this AGM, having been a director for many years. We also have Alexander Cornforth, Charlotte Edgar, Richard Hickman, and Billy McCauley of HarbourVest Partners. We also have Jasper Cross and Anne-Marie Pereira from BNP Paribas as Company Secretary. Since it's now just a little after 1:00 P.M., and there is a quorum of at least one shareholder present in person or by proxy, the meeting may commence. Notice of today's meeting was given to shareholders on the 20th of June, 2022. Accordingly, the requisite notice has been given. I propose to take the notice of Annual General Meeting, including the proposed resolutions in full and the accompanying explanatory notes as read. If anyone would prefer me to read the notice of Annual General Meeting, please let me know when we come to Q&A just now. Before we go into the formal voting procedures, I'm delighted that we've got a number of people on the line participating in the AGM today. I'm assuming that everybody on the line is a shareholder. We did ask for evidence through letters of representation that people were shareholders and able to participate, and we haven't had any of those back. When it comes to voting, we're going to be moving through the proxy votes that we've already received ahead of the meeting. On the assumption that everybody on the line is an interested shareholder, I'm gonna open the meeting up now for general questions on the report and accounts that we've put before you, anything to do with the company, or any questions you might have about the resolutions that we're going to be going through in a moment. Thankfully, we have Nadia, who is working to ring master this for us, and you will have seen you've got the opportunity to either ask a question online or to notify her that you'd like to ask a question in person. Nadia, I'm gonna hand this over to you. Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, "please press star followed by one" on your telephone keypad. If you have joined online, please use the Q&A chat box provided. We'll pause for just a moment. As a reminder, that's star followed by one on your telephone keypad, and if you have joined online, please use the Q&A chat box provided. We'll just give it a few more seconds in case anybody's struggling with technology. Thank you. It looks like we have no questions currently. Okay, Nadia, we'll move on. Thank you, everybody. I'm just gonna move on to voting now. A word on the voting procedures. Our articles allow a resolution to be put to a vote on a show of hands, or alternatively, by way of a poll demanded in accordance with the articles. As I said just now, we haven't had any representation letters to enable people to vote in person at this meeting. As chair, I will call a poll, and all the votes on the resolutions will be by way of a poll. A number of proxy forms have been received. I'll announce details of the proxy votes received in relation to each resolution. If a validly executed form of proxy has been received by the deadline, indicates, which appoints me as a proxy, I'll vote in the poll in accordance with the proxy form instructions for any validly executed proxy form received. There are three options for each resolution: a vote in favor, a vote against, or a vote withheld, and you should be aware that a vote withheld is not a vote in law and will not be counted in the calculation of the voting percentages for and against a resolution. As you'd have seen, in the chair of the board's letter to shareholders, it was included in the notice of AGM. The board of the company unanimously recommends that shareholders vote in favor of the resolutions proposed at the meeting. I'll move now to those resolutions. Resolutions one through 11 are all proposed as ordinary resolutions, which require a simple majority of votes cast at the AGM in order to be passed. Resolution one. This resolution proposes to receive the annual financial statements of the company and the reports of the directors and auditor for the year ended 31st of January, 2023. Votes in favor, 42,473,732. Votes against, 2,162, and votes withheld, 3,591. That resolution has been passed. Ordinary resolution two. This proposes to approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31st of January 2023. I propose the resolution number two is set out in the notice of AGM, and for that one, votes in favor, 42,436,206. Votes against, 36,006. Votes withheld, 7,273. I can confirm that resolution number two has been passed. Moving on to ordinary resolution three, which is to elect Ms. Anulika Ajufo as a director of the company. I propose this resolution as set out in the notice of AGM. The proxy votes in favor, 42,462,585. Votes against, 10,358, and votes withheld, 6,542. I confirm that the resolution number three has been passed. Ordinary resolution four, which proposes to reelect Ms. Francesca Barnes as a director of the company. I propose the resolution number four, as set out in the notice of AGM, and for that, there were votes in favor of 42,463,633. Against, 10,931, and withheld, 4,921. I can confirm the resolution number four has been passed. Next, we take ordinary resolution five, which proposes to elect Ms. Elizabeth, or Elizabeth Burne, as a director of the company. I propose the resolution numbered five, as set out in the notice of AGM. Votes in favor, 42,464,403. Against, 10,161, and withheld, 4,921. I can confirm the resolution numbered five has been passed. Next is ordinary resolution six, which proposes to reelect Ms. Carolina Espinal as a director of the company. I propose the resolution numbered six, as set out in the notice of AGM. Votes in favor, 38,160,174. Votes against, 4,312,769, and votes withheld, 6,542. I can confirm the resolution numbered five has been passed. As the next resolution concerns my re-election, I'll ask Francesca Barnes to chair the meeting at this time. Thank you. Ordinary resolution seven. This resolution proposes to reelect Mr. Edmond Warner as a director of the company. I propose the resolution number seven, as set out in the notice of AGM. Votes in favor, 42,441,919. Votes against, 32,645, and votes withheld, 4,921. I confirm that the resolution number seven has been passed. We'll hand the chair back to Ed Warner. Thanks, Francesca. Now we take ordinary resolution eight, which proposes to reelect Mr. Steven Wilderspin as a director of the company. I propose the resolution numbered eight, as set out in the notice of AGM. Votes in favor, 42,463,633. Votes against, 10,931, and votes withheld, 4,921. I confirm the resolution numbered 8 has been passed. Moving on to ordinary resolution nine. This resolution proposes to reappoint Ernst & Young LLP as the independent auditor of the company. I propose the resolution numbered nine, as set out in the notice of AGM. Votes in favor, 41,645,467. Votes against, 826,979, and votes withheld, 7,039. I confirm the resolution number nine has been passed. Moving on to ordinary resolution 10. This resolution proposes to authorize the directors to agree the auditor's remuneration. I propose the resolution number 10, as set out in the notice of AGM. Votes in favor, 41,860,468. Votes against, 611,982. Votes withheld, 7,035. I confirm that the resolution number 10 has been passed. Finally, ordinary resolution 11. This resolution proposes to authorize the company to purchase up to 11,857,782 of its own shares, representing approximately 14.99% of the company's total issued share capital, exclusive of shares held in treasury, and to either cancel or hold in treasury any shares so purchased. I propose the resolution numbered 11, as set out in the notice of AGM. Votes in favor, 42,104,535. Votes against, 410,057. Votes withheld, 4,115. I confirm the resolution numbered 12 has been passed. Sorry, numbered 11 has been passed. Ladies and gentlemen, as that concludes the formal business of the meeting, I'll suggest that the meeting now be brought to a close. I now declare the meeting closed. The final results of the voting, which you've just heard, will be announced through our Regulatory Information Service and published on our website as soon as possible. On behalf of all of the board, I'd like to thank you for attending today's meeting. Thank you very much. Thank you. This now concludes today's call. Thank you for joining. You may now disconnect your line.
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