Good morning. My name is Matt Plavan, and I am Interim Chief Executive Officer of Origin Materials, Inc. I am very happy to welcome you to the Origin 2026 Special Stockholders Meeting. The meeting will now officially come to order. The time is 8:30 A.M. Pacific Time on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, and the polls are now open for voting on all matters to be presented. As you know, we are hosting today's meeting through a virtual online platform hosted by Broadridge Financial Solutions. We will proceed with the formal business of the meeting in the order set forth in the notice of special meeting and proxy statement. We will first present proposals submitted for approval by our board, after which we will announce the preliminary results of the voting. As I mentioned earlier, the polls are open for voting on all matters to be presented. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote. After I describe each item to be voted on, we will close the polls. We will not accept ballots, proxies, revocations, or changes after the closing of the polls. If you have already submitted your vote by proxy and do not wish to change your vote, you do not need to vote now, and your shares will be voted as previously instructed. If you intend to vote and have not already done so, you must submit your vote online now in order for it to be counted. If you have not voted, I encourage you to vote online now. You should now have a copy of the rules of conduct for this meeting. In order to conduct an orderly meeting, we ask that you follow these rules. Stockholders with a valid control number have the opportunity to submit questions or comments for the Q&A portion of this meeting through the text box located on the meeting website. We will try to answer questions submitted that are germane to the proposals or this meeting and if we have time. Josh Lee will screen submitted questions, and during the Q&A portion of the meeting, he will read germane questions out loud before he responds. Will the secretary please report at this time with respect to the mailing of the notice of the meeting and the stockholders list? I have a complete list of the holders of record of the company's common stock and Series A junior preferred stock on July 8, 2026, the record date for this meeting. I also have an affidavit certifying that a notice of special meeting of stockholders of the company was deposited in the U.S. Mail commencing on July 20, 2026 to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on July 8, 2026. At this time, I'd like to introduce Chris Amrhein of American Election Services, who is present virtually. I'm appointing Ms. Amrhein to act as Inspector of Elections at this meeting. Ms. Amrhein has taken and subscribed 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 verify the proxies and the votes received and to certify the final votes when voting on all matters is complete. Will the secretary please report at this time with respect to the existence of a quorum? I have been informed by the Inspector of Election that proxies have been received for 2,094,094 of the 5,503,087 shares of common stock and one share of Series A junior preferred stock outstanding on the record date. As the Series A junior preferred stock has a voting power for purposes of determining quorum equivalent to 5,503,087 shares of common stock, this represents approximately 69% of the voting power of all outstanding shares of Origin Materials' capital stock entitled to vote. This constitutes a quorum for the meeting today, and we may now carry out the official business of the meeting. We'll now proceed with the formal business of this meeting. The first item of business is to approve the liquidation and dissolution of the company pursuant to the amended and restated Plan of Complete Liquidation and Dissolution. Authorization of the dissolution proposal requires approval by the holders of a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of Origin Materials' capital stock. That is common stock and Series A junior preferred stock entitled to vote on the proposal. If approved, the dissolution proposal will authorize the liquidation and dissolution of the company in accordance with the amended and restated Plan of Dissolution. Our board of directors would then have sole discretion to decide whether or not to actually carry out the dissolution, as well as the timing of the dissolution. We will now review if there are any questions submitted about the proposal before we close the polls. Josh, are there any questions? There are no submitted questions. Okay. That concludes question and answer portion of our meeting. The time is now 10:35 A.M. Central Time, 8:35 A.M. Pacific Time, and the polls are now closed for voting. May we have the preliminary results of the voting? The preliminary report of the Inspector of Election indicates that we have received sufficient votes from the holders of the company's common stock and Series A junior preferred stock, which votes in proportion to the common stock, to approve the dissolution proposal. Given the approval of the dissolution proposal, our board will now determine when to proceed with the dissolution. We will liquidate our remaining assets, satisfy or make reasonable provision for our remaining obligations, and make distributions to the stockholders of available proceeds, if any. We intend to seek to distribute funds to our stockholders as quickly as Delaware law and the Plan of Dissolution permit, and will take reasonable actions to optimize the distributable value to our stockholders. We may periodically communicate updates to our stockholders if and when appropriate. We expect to report our preliminary voting results or, if available to us on a timely basis, our final voting results in a press release to be issued within four business days after the end of this meeting. If not earlier reported, we expect to report our final voting results in a follow-up press release within four business days after the final results are known to us. This concludes the formal portion of today's meeting, and the special meeting is now adjourned. Thank you again for attending today's meeting and for your continued support of Origin Materials. The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.
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