Good morning. I'm Shai Terem, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Markforged Holding Corporation, and I will act as chairman of this meeting. I am pleased to welcome you to the Markforged Holding Corporation 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The other executive officers of the company with us today are Stephen Karp, our General Counsel, and Assaf Zipori, our Chief Executive- Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Karp will act as secretary of this meeting. I would also like to introduce Heather Lombardo of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm. The meeting will now officially come to order. We propose to proceed with the formal business of the meeting as set forth in the company's 2024 notice of annual meeting and proxy statement. Stockholders may submit questions regarding today's proposal that confirm the rules of conduct and procedures of the meeting by following the instructions on the annual meeting interface. Would the secretary please report at this time with respect to the mailing of the notice of the meeting and the stockholders list? I have at this meeting a complete list of the registered stockholders of the record of the company at the close of business on April 19, 2024, the record date for this meeting. I also have with me an affidavit certifying that commencing on April 26, 2024, a notice of internet availability of proxy materials was deposited in the United States Mail to all stockholders of record as of April 19, 2024. The notice provided stockholders information regarding how to access and review our proxy materials, including proxy card, proxy statement, notice of meeting, and 2023 annual report, or alternatively, request a print copy of the proxy materials. At this time, I'd like to introduce Kenneth Franke, who has been appointed to act as independent inspector of elections at this meeting. Mr. Franke has taken and subscribed the customary oath of office to execute his duties with strict impartiality, which will be filed with the records of the meeting. His function is to decide upon the qualification of voters, accept their votes, and when balloting on all matters is completed, to tally the final votes. Will the secretary please report at this time with respect to the existence of a quorum? I have been informed by the Inspector of Elections that proxies have been received for 157,083,845 of the 200,255,278 shares of common stock outstanding on the record date, which represents approximately 78.44% of the total number of shares entitled to vote at this meeting. This constitutes a quorum for the meeting today, and we may now carry out the official business of the meeting. We will now proceed with the formal business of the meeting. The following proposals are being considered by our stockholders at this meeting. Proposal 1 is the election of Alan Masarek, Carol Meyers, and Aaron VanDevender as Class III directors to serve on the board of directors until the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, or removal. Proposal 2 is the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the company for the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, 2024. Proposal 3 is the approval of an amendment to our certificate of incorporation to limit the liability of certain officers of the company as permitted by recent amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law. Proposal four is the approval of an amendment to our certificate of incorporation to approve a reverse stock split of our common stock and an associated reduction in the number of shares of our authorized common stock. That was the final proposal for today's meeting. Mr. Karp and I were designated as proxies by certain stockholders. Such shares represented by proxy will be voted in accordance with the instructions given. If no instructions were given, such shares will be voted for the nominees listed in proposal one and four, proposal two, proposal three, and proposal four. The secretary will now describe the voting procedures. The time is now 9:05 A.M. Eastern Time on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, and the polls are now open for voting on the proposals described by the chairman. You do not need to vote again if you already voted your proxy by telephone or by mail, or by internet. Any stockholder that is eligible to vote and who has not yet voted or wishes to change their vote may do so by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions there. Stockholders who have sent in proxies or voted via telephone or internet and do not want to change their vote, do not need to take any further action. Is there anyone present, whether or not you already submitted a proxy, who now wants to complete the ballot virtually? The time is now 9:06 A.M. Eastern Time. There are no questions that concern any proposal, and the polls are now closed for voting. May we have the preliminary results of the voting? The report of the Inspector of Elections covering the proposals presented at this meeting is as follows: Proposal 1, to elect Alan Masarek, Carol Meyers, and Aaron VanDevender as Class III directors of the company is carried. Proposal 2, the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the company for the year ending December 31, 2024, has been approved. Proposal 3, the amendment to our certificate of incorporation to limit the liability of certain officers of the company, as permitted by recent amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law, has been approved. Proposal 4, the amendment to our certificate of incorporation to approve a reverse stock split of our common stock and an associated reduction in the number of shares of our authorized common stock has been approved. There's been no other business to properly come before this meeting. This meeting is now adjourned. Thank you for attending the company's 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. This now concludes the meeting. Thank you for joining, and have a pleasant day.
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