Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Profire Energy, Inc.'s Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I am Cameron M. Tidball, the Co-CEO and Co-President of Profire Energy, Inc. It is my pleasure on behalf of the Board of Directors and the officers of Profire Energy to welcome you and to express our appreciation to you for attending today. We have already supplied each stockholder of record with a copy of our proxy statement and our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31st, 2022. Copies of the documents are available to any stockholder who does not have them. If you are a stockholder of record or a proxy for a stockholder of record, you should have been given the opportunity to receive a ballot to change your vote if you previously voted by proxy. Ballot should be cast using your 16-digit control number and following the instructions at the link provided in the voting instruction form or notice of internet availability of proxy material. I plan to conduct the meeting according to the items included in the notice of annual meeting of stockholders. Later in this meeting, we will have moments where stockholders will be able to ask questions regarding the items presented. If you have a question, please enter your questions via the chat feature located on the bottom left-hand corner of your screen. Your question will be read aloud and addressed accordingly. After the meeting has been adjourned, we will give you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have. Please ask questions using the same chat feature. We will attempt to address as many questions as possible. Principal business of this annual meeting of stockholders is to, 1, elect 5 directors, 2, approve and ratify the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan, N-3, ratify the selection of Sadler, Gibb & Associates, LLC, as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for our 2023 fiscal year. We are very pleased to have with us Brenton Hatch, Chairman of the Board, Ryan W. Oviatt, Co-CEO, Co-President, CFO, Director, Daren Shaw, Director, Ronald Spoehel, Director, Colleen Bell, Director. Also present today are Sam Gardiner, Partner at Mayer Brown, legal counsel, Todd Fugal, Corporate Secretary, Amy Parker, Colonial Stock Transfer, serving as Inspector of Elections, a representative from Sadler, Gibb & Associates, our accounting firm. I will now turn the time over to Mr. Fugal, our Corporate Secretary, to confirm the notice of annual meeting of stockholders, was duly given to all stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting. Thank you. I have here a certificate of mailing sworn to by the company's stock transfer agent, Colonial Stock Transfer, and duly signed, stating that the notice of annual meeting with stockholders was duly given to each stockholder of record, as required by the company's bylaws. The certificate of mailing is accepted. Thank you. In addition, I present a complete alphabetical list of the stockholders of record as of April 17th, 2023, who are entitled to vote at this meeting, showing the respective number of shares held by each, which is available at this meeting for inspection by stockholders in accordance with the company's bylaws and applicable law. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Please file the certificate of mailing and the notice of annual meeting and proxy statement with the minutes of this meeting. Amy Parker of Colonial Stock Transfer has been appointed to serve as the Inspector of Election. We will have Todd fill in for this, our corporate secretary. Mr. Inspector, will you please present your report of the number of shares present in person, by proxy, or by attorney at this meeting so that we can determine whether a quorum is present? Thank you. As of April 17th, 2023, the record date of this meeting, there were 47,352,186 shares entitled to vote. There are... at this meeting, 36,515,432 shares present in person or by proxy, representing approximately 77% of the shares entitled to vote at this meeting, which is a majority of the shares entitled to vote at this meeting. Accordingly, a quorum is present. Thank you, Mr. Inspector. On the basis of the reports of the corporate secretary and the Inspector of Election, we find that proper notice has been given and that a quorum is present. Accordingly, this meeting has been properly convened. The polls of voting on all matters are hereby opened at this time, 9:07 A.M. Mountain Central Time or Mountain Standard Time. Mr. Secretary, were there any stockholder nominations or proposals for the business of this meeting properly filed with you as corporate secretary? No, sir. Stockholder nominations or proposals were properly filed with the Profire Energy, Inc. Corporate Secretary in advance of this meeting, as provided in the bylaws. The business of this meeting is limited to the foregoing three matters in accordance with the provisions of the bylaws. The proxy solicited by the board of directors can be tallied at one time, even though they contain three matters for consideration. Similarly, the ballots that any one of you present and seek to cast in this meeting can be handled the same way. Accordingly, I intend to proceed to discuss each matter separately, and when the discussion of one item is finished, we will move on to the next. At the conclusion of the discussion of the three items, we will take the vote. The first proposal that we will consider is the election of the, of directors. The board of directors has nominated Brenton W. Hatch, Colleen Larkin Bell, Ryan W. Oviatt, Daren J. Shaw, and Ronald R. Spoehel to serve as directors with terms that will expire in one year or at the next annual meeting of stockholders, expected to be held during the 2024 calendar year and/or at such time as their successors are elected and qualified. All the nominees are presently directors of the company. Information concerning the principal occupations of the nominees, their service with Profire Energy, and other matters that may be of interest are contained in the proxy statement. Is there any discussion with respect to the nominees for director? The second proposal we will consider is a vote to approve and ratify the Profire Energy, Inc. 2023 Equity Incentive Plan. Is there any discussion with respect to the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan? The third proposal we will consider is the ratification of the selection of Sadler, Gibb & Associates, LLC as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023. Is there any discussion with respect to the ratification of Sadler, Gibb & Associates, LLC? I believe that concludes the discussion on all matters. We will now proceed to take the vote for the election of directors. Stockholders who desire to cast their vote at this meeting should vote using their 16-digit control number and following the instructions at the link provided in the voting instruction form or notice of Internet availability of proxy materials. If you have not done this and wish to vote on this matter, please do so now. Each stockholder is entitled to one vote per share for each director to be elected. We will wait a few minutes to ensure that all stockholders present have had a chance to vote if they have not already done so. The polls with respect to the approval of election of directors are hereby declared closed at 9:12 A.M. Mountain Standard Time. We'll announce the results on all proposals at the end of the meeting. Next, we will proceed to take the vote to approve and ratify the Profire Energy, Inc. 2023 Equity Incentive Plan. If you have not already voted and wish to vote on this matter, please do so now. The polls with respect to the approval and ratification of the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan are hereby declared closed at 9:13 A.M. Mountain Standard Time. We will announce the results on all proposals at the end of the meeting. Moving on, we will take the vote to ratify the selection of Sadler, Gibb & Associates, LLC, as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2023. If you have not already voted and wish to vote on this matter, please do so now. The polls with respect to to vote to ratify the selection of Sadler, Gibb & Associates, LLC, as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2023, are hereby declared closed at 9:14 A.M. Mountain Standard Time. We will announce the results on all proposals at the end of the meeting. The polls for voting on all on the matters before this meeting are hereby closed. The Inspector of Election or Corporate Secretary will now review the ballots, all ballots from any stockholders present who have voted during this meeting and tally the votes. Mr. Inspector, please let us know when the tally is complete, and you are ready to present your report on the vote. Thank you. I have here a completed tally of the votes taken at this meeting. In the matter of election of directors for Brenton W. Hatch, we have 27,671,048 shares voted for, 1,122,995 shares voted against, and 1,604 shares abstained. For Colleen Larkin Bell, we had 24,232,918 shares voted for, 4,561,130 shares voted against, and 1,650 shares abstained. For Ryan W. Oviatt, we had 27,572,329 shares voted for, 1,221,719 shares voted against, and 1,650 shares abstained. For Daren J. Shaw, we had 27,345,710 shares voted for, 1,448,338 shares voted against, and 1,650 shares abstained. For Ronald R. Spoehel, we had 27,345,803 shares voted for, 1,448,245 shares voted against, and 1,650 shares abstained. As all directors as nominated did receive a majority of the vote, and that was it. For the proposal to approve the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan, we had 21,117,937 shares voted for, 5,477,147 shares voted against, and 2,200,614 shares abstained. That item received the majority of the votes as well. For item number three, to ratify the appointment of Sadler, Gibb & Associates, LLC, as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. We had 36,378,753 shares voted for, 20,821 shares voted against, and 115,857 shares abstained, and that item received the majority of shares as well. Thank you. The report of the Inspector of Election, as presented, is accepted. I hereby declare that the nominees for director have been duly elected. The Profire Energy, Inc. 2023 Equity Incentive Plan has been duly approved and ratified, and the appointment of Sadler, Gibb & Associates, LLC, as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2023 fiscal year, has been duly ratified. Mr. Secretary, please safeguard the ballots, proxies, and the oath and certificate and report of the Inspector of Election and maintain them among the records of the company. I will now entertain a motion to adjourn. I move that the meeting be adjourned. I second the motion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. This meeting is adjourned at 9:18 A.M. Mountain Standard Time. Now that the formal meeting is adjourned, if you have any questions that you would like to ask, please do so now by using the chat feature, and we will address as many as we can
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