Good afternoon. I'm Rick Hendrix, Chairman of Danimer's Board of Directors. Before turning the meeting over to Steve Croskrey, Danimer's Chief Executive Officer, I'd like to personally welcome each of you to Danimer Scientific's 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which is being webcast live this afternoon following an adjournment this morning. In addition to the standard agenda items related to the election of directors and ratification of our auditors, we have two other important proposals related to revising the company's corporate charter and replenishing the pool of shares available for making equity incentive awards to key stakeholders. Danimer's Board of Directors has recommended stockholders vote in favor of these proposals in order to position Danimer to effectively manage its long-term capital position and to appropriately incent and retain its key executives. As a stockholder, I have voted in favor of each proposal under consideration today, and I hope that all of you have likewise already voted in favor of them or plan to do so at this meeting. With that, I'll now turn the meeting over to Steve Croskrey, Danimer's CEO and the Director of the Company, to serve as the Chairman of this meeting. Steve? Thanks, Rick, and good afternoon to everyone participating in this meeting. Like Rick, I'm proud to confirm that I am also a shareholder of the company and support all of the proposals under consideration at this meeting. Turning to the agenda, the matters on which the stockholders are voting are to: 1, elect 11 directors as named in the proxy statement; 2, ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024; 3, approve an amendment and restatement of the company's Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase the authorized number of shares of the company's Class A Common Stock to 600 million shares; and 4, approve an amendment to the company's 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of the company's Class A Common Stock available for issuance under the plan. I would now like to introduce you to other directors of the company on the line at this time: Cynthia Cohen, Dr. David Moody, and Dr. Isao Noda. Also present at this meeting are Mike Hajost, Danimer's Chief Financial Officer; Steve Martin, Danimer's Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary; Vincent Amadeo, a representative of Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the company's registrar and transfer agent; and Delane Myers and Wes Smith as representatives of KPMG LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm. Mr. Martin will act as Secretary of the Meeting. Mr. Martin has advised us that the quorum is present at the meeting, so I declare the meeting duly and lawfully convened. The meeting is now open and ready for business. Mr. Martin, would you please present the notice of the meeting? Yes, Steve, thanks. I have in my hand a copy of the notice of the meeting dated May 30, 2024, which was mailed on May 30, 2024, to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 13, 2024, which was the record date for this meeting. The notice of the meeting will be filed with the records of the meeting. Will the Secretary present the affidavit of mailing of the notice of the meeting? Yes, Steve. I have in my hand a copy of the affidavit of mailing, and it indicates that a copy of the notice was duly mailed to each stockholder of record on May 30, 2024. The Secretary is directed to file the affidavit with the minutes of this meeting. Mr. Martin, will you please present a list of stockholders of the company? Yes. I have in my hand a list of the stockholders of the company as of the close of business on May 13, 2024, the record date for the meeting, which shows that the stockholders and their respective number of shares entitled to vote at the meeting. This list is and has been available to any stockholder for examination and will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. The company has designated Vincent Amadeo, a representative of the company's registrar and transfer agent, as Inspector of Election to count the votes presented to the meeting in person or by proxy. The Inspector of Election has signed an oath to act as Inspector of Election, and I direct the Secretary to attach this oath to the minutes of the meeting. I will note that a copy of the annual report to stockholders, which includes my letter addressed to you, the company's stockholders, has been made available to all stockholders and also posted to the company's website prior to this meeting. I direct that the Secretary file the annual report with the minutes of this meeting. As previously mentioned, there are four items of business to be acted on at this meeting. I will first entertain motions for stockholders to vote on these matters. Next, any stockholders desiring to vote at the meeting will be given an opportunity to do so. Finally, the polls will be closed, the votes tabulated, and the results read by the Inspector of Elections. The first item of business to be acted on at this meeting is the election of directors for the coming year. The proxy statement named 11 directors nominated to be re-elected at this meeting and to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified. May I have a motion to elect the 11 nominees described in the proxy statement as members of the company's Board of Directors? As a stockholder of the company and on behalf of the Board of Directors, I hereby move that each of the following persons be elected as directors of the company to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors shall be elected and qualified: Stephen E. Croskrey, Richard N. Altice, John P. Amboian, Philip Gregory Calhoun, Cynthia Cohen, Richard Hendrix, Gregory Hunt, Allison Leopold Tilley, Dr. David Moody, Dr. Isao Noda, Stuart W. Pratt. As a stockholder of the company, I second the motion. Thank you. Nominations for election of directors are closed, and I call the question and declare that the polls are open to vote on the motion. We will now proceed with the second order of business, which is to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. The appointment of KPMG is discussed in the proxy statement that was previously made available to stockholders. At this time, I would like to recognize Delaine Myers and Wes Smith from KPMG, each of whom has worked on the audit of the company's financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, and are participating in today's meeting. The Board of Directors recommends that you vote for ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. I ask for a motion to still ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP. As a stockholder of the company, I move to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2024. As a stockholder of the company, I second the motion. We will now proceed with the third order of business, which is to approve an amendment and restatement of the company's Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase the authorized number of shares of the company's Class A Common Stock to 600 million shares as provided in the proxy statement. I ask for a motion to approve the amendment and restatement of the company's Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation as provided in the company's proxy statement. As a stockholder of the company, I move to approve the amendment and restatement of the company's Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation as provided in the company's proxy statement. As a stockholder of the company, I second the motion. We will now proceed with the fourth and final order of business, which is to approve an amendment to the company's 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of the company's Class A Common Stock available for issuance under the plan as provided in the proxy statement. I ask for a motion to approve the amendment to the company's 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan as provided in the company's proxy statement. As a stockholder of the company, I move to approve the amendment to the company's 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of the company's Class A Common Stock available for issuance under the plan as provided in the company's proxy statement. As a stockholder of the company, I second the motion. I hereby call the question and declare the polls open to vote on the four items under consideration. Any stockholder who desires to vote at this time for any of the matters before the meeting should do so now by accessing the annual meeting web page and following the on-screen instructions. Please note that you must enter the control number found on your proxy card that you previously received. I will also now direct that any shares for which Mr. Hajost and I represent as proxy holders be voted in accordance with the instructions provided by the stockholders for such shares. We will now pause for a few minutes to permit any eligible stockholder who wishes to vote through the annual meeting web page to do so. The polls are now closed for each of the following matters to be voted upon at the meeting: the election of 11 directors as named in the proxy statement, the ratification of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, the amendment and restatement of the company's Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation as provided in the company's proxy statement, and the amendment to the company's 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan as provided in the company's proxy statement. Will the Secretary report how many stockholders are present in person or by proxy? Yes. There are now present in person or by proxy the holders of 64,086,693 shares of common stock out of a total of 116,443,200 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of the record date. This constitutes more than a majority of the shares of the company's issued and outstanding common stock entitled to vote at this meeting, and there is, therefore, a quorum present. I understand that the Inspector of Election has tabulated the votes. I now request that the Inspector of Election please report the results. Thank you. A plurality of the votes cast at this meeting have voted for the election of each of the 11 nominees of the Board of Directors as follows: Altice, Amboian, Calhoun, Croskrey, Hendrix, Hunt, Moody, Onota, Pratt, Ms. Leopold Tilley, and Ms. Cohen have been duly elected as directors of the company to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified. The holders of shares of common stock of the company constituting a majority of the shares of common stock present in person or represented by proxy at this meeting with respect to such proposal voted to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31st, 2024, and accordingly, such motion was duly adopted. A majority of the votes cast at this meeting on the proposal to amend and restate the company's Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation voted in favor of the proposal, and accordingly, such proposal was duly approved. The holders of shares of common stock of the company constituting a majority of the shares of common stock present in person or represented by proxy at this meeting with respect to such proposal voted in favor of the proposal to amend the company's 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of the company's Class A Common Stock that are reserved as available for issuance under the plan, and accordingly, such proposal was duly approved. That concludes the items to be voted on at our meeting. As noted in our proxy solicitation materials, stockholders were invited to submit questions directly related to the ballot items in the Proxy Statement to the company by email in advance of the meeting. There have been no questions submitted. I will now entertain a motion to adjourn. I move that the meeting be adjourned. I second that motion. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed, please signify by saying no. There being no objection, I hereby declare this meeting adjourned. Rick, do you have any closing comments? Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for participating in the annual meeting. Today's webcast is concluded. You may disconnect at this time.
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