Good afternoon. Welcome to Nkarta's annual meeting of stockholders. I would now like to turn the conference over to Paul Hastings, CEO. Please go ahead. Good afternoon. Welcome to Nkarta's annual meeting of stockholders. I am Paul Hastings, CEO, and also a member of the board of directors of the company. I will act as chairperson of this meeting. Our general counsel and corporate secretary, Bridgette Housley, will act as secretary of the meeting. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the other directors and officers of the company who are present at this virtual meeting. Directors, Ali Behbahani. Officers, Nadir Mahmood, our president. Also present at today's meetings are Brophy Christensen of O'Melveny & Myers, our legal counsel to the company, Abdul Qazi, a representative of the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, LLP, Nkarta's independent registered public accounting firm, and Susan Miller, a representative of CT Hagberg, LLC, who has been appointed to serve as the inspector of elections for this annual meeting. Ms. Miller has taken and subscribed with the customary oath of office to execute her duties with strict impartiality. We will file this oath with the records of the meeting. Her function is to decide upon the qualifications of voters, accept their votes, and when balloting on all matters is completed, to tally the final votes. Now, in order to provide for the orderly conduct of this annual meeting, we intend to conduct this meeting in accordance with the agenda and the rules of conduct. The agenda for the meeting should be visible on your screen and can also be accessed under the “Meeting Materials” section of the screen. A link to the rules of conduct is also available under the Meeting Materials section of the screen. If you wish to submit a question during the meeting, you may do so during the meeting by typing the question into the “Ask a Question” section at the bottom of your screen. You must be a stockholder as of April 17th, 2026, record date for today's meeting, and have logged into the meeting using your unique control number to submit a question. We will respond to appropriate questions about the proposals being voted on today for all of the proposals that have been presented. After the meeting is adjourned, we will spend up to 15 minutes answering other appropriately submitted questions that comply with the rules of conduct. To the extent time does not allow us to answer all the appropriately submitted questions, answers will be posted to our investor relations website soon after the meeting. If we receive substantially similar questions, we will group such questions together and provide a single response to avoid repetition. Bridgette, as secretary of the meeting, please report on the mailing of the proxy materials and the number of shares of common stock represented at this meeting. I present an affidavit of Broadridge Financial Solutions that notice of this meeting was made available to all stockholders of record commencing on April 23rd, 2026. On the record date of April 17th, 2026, there were 71,290,925 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at this meeting. I have been informed by the inspector of election that stockholders holding at least 75% of the outstanding voting power of all shares of common stock entitled to vote are present at this meeting or represented by proxy. Based on Bridgette's report, I hereby declare that a quorum is present, and now call the meeting to order. If you've already submitted a proxy by telephone, internet, or mail to authorize how your shares of common stock will be voted at this meeting, your vote is already in and counted. If you have not already submitted your proxy, or if you desire to revoke your proxy or your prior proxy and want to vote today at the annual meeting, you may do so electronically in the voting section of the bottom of your screen. The polls are open, and you may vote by electronic ballot at any time during the annual meeting until the polls close. I will proceed with introducing each of the items of business at today's meeting. If you have questions on these proposals, please submit them by typing the question into the question and answer section at the bottom of your screen. The first item of business is the election of two class 3 directors to serve a term that expires at our annual meeting of stockholders in 2029 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The board of directors has nominated each of Ali Behbahani, MD, MBA, and Zachary Scheiner, PhD, for re-election. No other nominations were received in accordance with the advance notice provisions of our bylaws, all nominations are now closed. The second item of business is the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP to serve as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31st, 2026. The third item of business is an advisory vote to approve the compensation paid to the company's named executive officers as disclosed in our proxy statement. The fourth and final item of business is an advisory vote on the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation. The board of directors recommends a vote for every one year. Proposals must be made in advance of the meeting to be considered. Because no other proposals were received in accordance with the advance notice provisions of our bylaws, that concludes the introduction of all matters requiring a stockholders' vote. We will now answer any questions on the proposals, and I will briefly pause to allow stockholders time to submit any questions. Nadir, have we received any questions on the proposals? No. There have been no questions submitted. Okay. If you have not submitted a proxy or electronic ballot, you must submit your electronic ballot now in order for your vote to be counted by the Inspector of Elections. The voting today is by proxy and electronic ballot. As stated earlier, if you have already submitted a proxy by telephone, internet, or mail and do not wish to change your vote, you do not need to do anything else at this time. Any stockholder who hasn't yet voted or wishes to change his or her vote may do so electronically in the voting section on the bottom of your screen. We will briefly pause to allow anyone who chooses to vote electronically to cast their ballots now. The polls are now closed, and voting on the matters set forth in the notice of the annual meeting is now concluded. All electronic ballots will be counted by the Inspector of Elections. Based on the preliminary voting results provided by the Inspector of Election, the votes show that the stockholders elected the nominees, Dr. Ali Behbahani and Dr. Zachary Scheiner, to the board of directors, ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young as Nkarta's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending in December 31st, 2026, approved the compensation paid to the company's named executive officers, and selected one year as the preferred frequency for future advisory votes on executive compensation. That now concludes our agenda. The final results of today's vote will be reported in a Form 8-K to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within the next four business days. There being no further business to conduct at this annual meeting, I now declare the meeting adjourned. We'll now spend up to 15 minutes answering any other questions from stockholders. As a reminder, we will answer appropriate questions today that have been submitted in compliance with the rules of conduct. Nadir, have any questions regarding Nkarta that are appropriate to address and submitted at this time? No, there have been no questions submitted.
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