Good morning, and welcome to the CVR Energy, Inc. 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I would now like to turn the call over to Mark Pytosh, Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer of CVR Energy. Please go ahead, sir. Thank you, and good morning, and welcome, everyone. We're glad you could join us for our virtual annual meeting of stockholders. This meeting will now come to order. I am Mark Pytosh, Director, President, and CEO of CVR Energy. Today's virtual meeting is a live webcast and enables our stockholders to participate regardless of their location around the world. Stockholders on the record date can submit questions and vote their shares online at any time during this meeting before the polls close. With me today are Dane Neumann, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Melissa Buhrig, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, and other members of our management team and board of directors. Also with us today are representatives from Grant Thornton LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm. Grant Thornton will be available to answer questions during the Q&A portion of the meeting. For our agenda, we'll first present the three proposals submitted by the board for approval, followed by a question-and-answer session. We'll then close the polls and announce the preliminary voting results. The polls are now open, so if you haven't voted, I encourage you to vote online now. Questions can be submitted by stockholders online at the bottom of the event page under the Q&A tab. Thank you again for joining us. Now I'll turn the meeting over to Melissa. Thank you, Mark. We're conducting this meeting in accordance with CVR Energy's bylaws. As Mark mentioned, we've allocated time in the agenda for Q&A. Some of our comments and responses to your questions may include forward-looking statements that are based on certain assumptions and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. The risks, uncertainties, and assumptions are described in our filings with the SEC. CVR Energy's agent, Broadridge, has certified that notice of this meeting was provided beginning April 21st, 2026, to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on April 6th, 2026, the record date for this meeting. Copies of those certifications are in my possession. I therefore declare that legal notice of the meeting has been duly given. I present a list of stockholders of record at the close of business on the record date, which has been certified by Equiniti Trust Company LLC, our transfer agent, and which is available to stockholders of record at the bottom border of the meeting page. This list has been open for the examination of stockholders at our offices in Sugar Land, Texas, for at least 10 days prior to this meeting and may be inspected during the meeting by any stockholder logged in. There were 100,530,599 shares of CVR Energy common stock issued as of the record date that are each entitled to one vote at this meeting. The board of directors has appointed Anne Brunner to act as Inspector of Election at this meeting. The Inspector of Election has informed us that a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock of the company are present in person or by proxy at the meeting. Accordingly, a quorum is present. If you have already sent in a proxy and do not wish to change your vote, you do not have to fill out another proxy online. If any stockholder of record or proxy holder hasn't voted or has voted but wishes to change their vote, please enter your vote on the electronic ballot available online now or any time during the meeting before the polls close. The Inspector of Election will not accept votes submitted after closing of the polls. Please note that any votes submitted today by electronic ballot will be subject to final verification by the Inspector of Election. I will now turn it over to Mark to introduce the proposals. The first proposal is the election of the 10 directors identified in our proxy statement, each to serve until the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders or until such director's successor has been qualified and elected. The second proposal is approval by non-binding advisory vote of the company's named executive officer compensation. The third proposal is ratification of the appointment of Grant Thornton to serve as CVR Energy's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2026 fiscal year. The board recommends that stockholders vote for all directors identified in our proxy statements and for Proposals two and three. As I've already noted, the polls are now open. If you wish to vote today and have not already submitted a ballot, please do so now. We will now move to the Q&A portion of our agenda, which will be moderated by our CFO, Dane Neumann. Dane? Thank you, Mark. No questions have been submitted. Thank you, Dane. I now declare the polls closed and direct that a vote of the stockholders be taken on each of the proposals brought before this meeting. I request that the Inspector of Election tabulate the votes and proxies. The results are based on the preliminary tally provided by the Inspector of Election and are subject to final count and certification by the inspector. Melissa, do you have the report from the Inspector of Election on votes taken at the meeting? I do. 95,307,728 shares, which represent 94.8% of the outstanding shares, are present in person or by proxy at this meeting. Subject to final verification of the electronic balloting, the voting results are as follows. First, on the election of directors, the 10 directors nominated by the board and identified in our proxy statement have received the highest number of votes. Second, a majority of shares present in person or by proxy have approved CVR Energy's named executive officer compensation by a non-binding advisory vote. Third, a majority of the shares present in person or by proxy have ratified the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as CVR Energy's independent registered public accounting firm for 2026. This concludes the preliminary voting report. The final results will be available for all stockholders in our filings with the SEC within four business days. Stockholders may also obtain the voting results by calling or writing the Office of Corporate Secretary at our headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas. Thank you, Melissa. I hereby declare that I, along with Directors Flint, DeMaria, Firestone, Icahn, Kwak, Lamp, Mongillo, Smith, and Heidenreich Voliva have been elected as directors. The stockholders have approved our named executive officer compensation by a non-binding advisory vote. The stockholders have ratified the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as CVR Energy's independent registered public accounting firm for 2026. I direct that the reports of the Inspector of Election be filed with the minutes of this meeting. That concludes our annual meeting of stockholders. Thank you for attending today and for your interest in CVR Energy. With no further business to come before the meeting, I declare this meeting adjourned. Have a safe and wonderful day. This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.
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