Welcome to the special meeting of stockholders of Heartland Financial USA, Inc. Our host for today's call is John Schmidt, Chairman. At this time, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. I will now turn the call over to your host. John Schmidt, you may begin. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us for this special meeting of stockholders of Heartland Financial USA, Inc. I am John K. Schmidt, Independent Chairman of the HTLF Board of Directors. It is my honor to serve as chairman of this special meeting. Joining me on the call today are Bruce K. Lee, HTLF's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Jay Kim, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, who will act as secretary of this meeting. At this time, I'd like to call the meeting to order. I believe most of you have already submitted your proxy by mail or electronically. If not, you may vote today by following the instructions on the virtual meeting site. Your voting instructions will be carried out today by the appointed proxies, Jay Kim and Kevin Thompson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The board has appointed Greg Robke and Mike Sinke as inspectors of the election, and they're also to be filed with the records of this meeting. Jay, I'd now like you to report on proof of notice of this meeting and quorum. Mr. Chairman, the Board of Directors fixed June 26th, 2024, as the Record Date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting. The list of stockholders as of June 26th, 2024, has been on file at the office of the company for the last 10 days and was made available for inspection by any stockholder. An affidavit from Broadridge Financial Solutions has been provided, attesting to the fact that commencing on July 5th, 2024, Broadridge deposited in the United States Mail records related to the Special Meeting of Heartland Financial USA, Inc., to be held on August 6, 2024. These records were sent to all stockholders as of the close of business on the Record Date for this meeting. The stockholder list shows that as of the record date, there were 42,828,519 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at this meeting. More than a majority of the voting power of all issued and outstanding stock entitled to vote on the record date is present, which represents a quorum for purposes of transacting business. Thank you, Jay. As chairman of this meeting, I declare this a properly constituted meeting with a quorum present, duly organized and ready for business. We will now proceed with the business of the meeting. If you have not already cast your votes in advance of the meeting, you may do so now. If you have voted your shares prior to today, you do not need to vote online unless you wish to change your vote. The items of business to be considered at today's meetings are as follows: The first item of business is a proposal to approve and adopt the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby. The second item of business is a proposal to approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to HTLF's named executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to the mergers. The third item of business is a proposal to adjourn or postpone the HTLF special meeting, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if immediately prior to such adjournment or postponement, there are not sufficient votes to approve the HTLF merger proposal or to ensure that any supplement or amendment to the accompanying Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus is timely provided to holders of HTLF Common Stock. The Board of Directors recommends a vote for each proposal. If you have not yet voted, please do so now. You will only be able to vote at this time if you have logged into this meeting with your 16-digit control number. I believe everyone has had an opportunity to vote, and I declare the polls closed. The votes have been tallied, and I'll ask our Inspectors of Election to report the results of the voting to the secretary. Jay, do we have the voting results? We do, Mr. Chairman. The results of the vote are as follows: Each of the proposals has received sufficient votes to approve them. Thank you, Jay. As Chairman, I confirm that all proposals have been adopted. The inspectors are instructed to submit a certificate of inspectors of election to be filed with the secretary for insertion in the company's minute book, together with the minutes of this meeting. This concludes our business for this meeting. With no additional business, I declare the meeting adjourned. I'd like to acknowledge our loyal stockholders and customers for their ongoing support and loyalty.