Welcome to GoDaddy's 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. I am turning the floor to Brian Sharples to open the meeting. Good morning. Welcome, and thank you for joining us for GoDaddy's 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. I am Brian Sharples, Chair of the Board of Directors of GoDaddy Inc., and chair of this annual meeting, which I will now call to order. First, I'd like to acknowledge that our meeting today is being held in an all virtual format. With the virtual format, we believe we're able to provide more of our stockholders the opportunity to participate in the annual meeting. Our agenda will start with the business set forth in the proxy statement. Following the conclusion of the formal portion of the meeting, we will provide a brief Q&A session. If you have a question, please submit it using the virtual meeting platform. The polls are currently still open for voting. If you've already voted by proxy, you do not need to vote again unless you wish to change your prior vote. I'd like to begin the meeting by introducing members of our board of directors and our executive management team. Joining me today are Aman Bhutani, a director, and of course, our CEO, Herald Chen, Caroline Donahue, Mark Garrett, Graham Smith, Leah Sweet, Srini Tallapragada, Sigal Zarmi. We also have a number of company officers here with us. Joining me today are Roger Chen, who's our Chief Operating Officer, Mark McCaffrey, who is our Chief Financial Officer, Jared Sine, our Chief Strategy and Legal Officer, and E.B. McCusker, our Corporate Secretary. The agenda and rules of conduct for this meeting have been posted to the virtual meeting website, and we intend to proceed according to such rules of conduct to provide for an orderly meeting. With that, I will now turn it over to our Corporate Secretary, E.B. McCusker. Thank you, Brian. Today's meeting is being held pursuant to a notice included with the GoDaddy 2026 proxy statement that was first sent to GoDaddy stockholders on or about April 23rd, 2026. Our tabulator, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., has previously advised that a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of our capital stock are represented here today. As a result, we have a quorum and can proceed with the business of the meeting. L Squared Elections is serving as the independent inspector of elections at today's meeting, and its oath of office and report will be filed with the minutes of the meeting. I will now turn to the voting procedures. Only GoDaddy stockholders as of the close of business on April 6th, 2026, which is the record date for this meeting, are entitled to vote. If you have already submitted a proxy, you do not need to vote again unless you wish to change your prior vote. Your vote will be counted automatically without any further action on your part. If you have not yet submitted a proxy, or if you would like to change your prior vote, you may do so through the virtual meeting web portal by clicking on the Vote Here button on your screen and following the instructions. Once all items of business have been addressed and stockholders have been provided an opportunity to submit their votes online, the polls will be closed for voting. The final vote totals will not be known until the independent inspector of elections certifies its tabulation after the meeting. The voting results will be reported by the company in a Form 8-K to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within four business days of this meeting. As a reminder, the polls are open. You may vote at any time during our discussion of the proposals on the agenda. The polls will close after the last proposal has been presented. Following the conclusion of the formal portion of the meeting, we will provide a brief Q&A session. You may submit your questions now by typing your question in the Ask the Question field on your screen and clicking Submit. As described in the rules of conduct, each stockholder is limited to two questions. Similar questions may be combined so that we may answer questions on a variety of topics. We will respond to questions as time permits and in accordance with the rules of conduct. As such, due to time constraints, we may not be able to answer all questions. Turning to the items of business for today's meeting. There are four items listed in the notice for stockholder action at today's meeting. The first item of business is the election of nine directors to serve until the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The director nominees named in the company's proxy statement standing for election are Aman Bhutani, Herald Chen, Caroline Donahue, Mark Garrett, Brian Sharples, Graham Smith, Leah Sweet, Srini Tallapragada, and Sigal Zarmi. Information about each nominee is contained in the proxy statement. In accordance with the bylaws of the company, stockholders are required to provide advance notice of their intent to nominate candidates for directors. No such notice was received. Therefore, the nine director nominees named in the company's proxy statement are the only persons eligible for election at today's meeting. The board of directors recommends a vote for each named director nominee. The second item of business is to approve on an advisory basis the compensation of our named executive officers. The compensation of our named executive officers is described in the proxy statement. The board of directors recommends a vote for approval on an advisory basis of the compensation of our named executive officers. The third item of business is to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31st, 2026. The appointment of Ernst & Young LLP is described in the proxy statement. Dan Roeder and Brian Outland, representatives of Ernst & Young LLP, are here with us today. The board of directors recommends a vote for the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ended December 31st, 2026. The fourth item of business is to approve the amended and restated GoDaddy Inc. 2024 Omnibus Incentive Plan. Details of the amended and restated plan are provided in the proxy statement. The board of directors recommends a vote for the approval of the amended and restated GoDaddy Inc. 2024 Omnibus Incentive Plan. That concludes all items on the agenda for stockholder action at this meeting. The polls have been opened and are about to be closed. Any stockholder who has not yet voted or wishes to change their prior vote should click now on the Vote Here button on your screen. Stockholders who have sent in proxies or voted via telephone or the internet do not need to take any further action unless they want to change their prior vote. We will pause for a moment to allow stockholders a last opportunity to submit their votes. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I declare the polls closed for the GoDaddy Inc. 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The preliminary report of the independent inspector of elections indicates that Aman Bhutani, Herald Chen, Caroline Donahue, Mark Garrett, Brian Sharples, Graham Smith, Leah Sweet, Srinivas Tallapragada, and Sigal Zarmi have been elected as directors by the stockholders. The compensation of our named executive officers has been approved on an advisory basis by the stockholders by a majority of the votes cast at the meeting. Ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31st, 2026, has been approved by the stockholders by a majority of the votes cast at the meeting. The amended and restated GoDaddy Inc. 2024 Omnibus Incentive Plan has been approved by the stockholders by a majority of the votes cast at the meeting. The final report of the independent inspector of elections will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. This concludes the formal business of today's meeting. There are no other matters to come before the meeting, the formal portion of the meeting is concluded, and we will now turn to any questions submitted by stockholders through the online portal during the meeting. I see no questions have been submitted, so this concludes our question and answer session. We will file an 8-K with the voting results within four days after this meeting. There being no further business items to address, I will now turn the meeting back over to Mr. Sharples. Thank you, E.B., and thank you all for participating today. The GoDaddy 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders is now adjourned. The meeting has now concluded. Thank you for joining, and have a pleasant day. Bye.
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