Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of the Board of Directors and the officers of Sanara MedTech Inc., I'd like to welcome you to this annual meeting of shareholders of the company. My name is Seth Yon, President and Chief Executive Officer of the company, and I will chair this meeting. It is my pleasure to welcome the company shareholders of record today. In order to facilitate a shareholder attendance and participation, we have decided to hold a virtual meeting electronically through the internet. Copies of the rules of procedure for this meeting have been posted on the online voting website. In order to conduct an orderly meeting, we ask that all participants follow these rules. The 2026 annual meeting of shareholders of Sanara MedTech Inc. is hereby called to order. Pursuant to authority duly granted by the board, I will act as chairman of the meeting, and Mr. Nick Gachassin, our General Counsel, will act as Secretary of the meeting. I hereby appoint Ms. Anna Hagberg-Cito of CTH LLC, a representative Broadridge, the registrar and transfer agent of the company's common stock, as the inspector of the election for the meeting, who has signed an oath to act as inspector of election, which will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. I will begin by introducing the other current members of the company's board of directors. Robert A. DeSutter, Roszell Mack III, Eric D. Major, Keith G. Myers, Ronald T. Nixon, Sara N. Ortwein, Ann Beal Salamone, Eric D. Tanzberger. As set forth and described in the proxy statement and accompanying notice, which were made available to all shareholders of record of the company, this annual meeting has been called for the purpose of: One. Electing nine members of the board of directors for the ensuing year. Two. Ratifying the appointment of Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. to serve as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. Three. Approving, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the company's named executive officers. Four. Approving, on an advisory basis, the frequency of future advisory votes on named executive officer compensation. Five. Transacting any business that may properly come before the meeting. In order for a quorum to be present at this meeting, shareholders representing a majority of the outstanding shares of the company entitled to vote on any matter must be present in person or by proxy at this meeting. Mr. Gachassin, will you please advise us to the presence of quorum? Mr. Chairman, I report that properly executed proxies of shareholders representing more than 50% of the outstanding shares of the company entitled to vote have been received and are present at this meeting. As a quorum is present, I now declare that this meeting is duly and lawfully convened and open and ready for business. The online polls for each matter to be voted on at this annual meeting are now open. Any shareholder wishing to cast a vote at this meeting should do so now, as the polls will close in a few minutes. You may vote online by opening your web browser and navigating to www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/smti2026 with the use of the 16-digital control number provided in the notice regarding the availability of proxy materials previously mailed to you. Any shareholder who has timely mailed in his or her signed proxy or has otherwise voted in advance of this annual meeting will have his or her shares voted as he or she has indicated and need not vote at this time unless he or she wishes to change his or her prior vote or revoke his or her proxy. After the end of the formal portion of this meeting, we will provide time for a brief Q&A to respond to any shareholder questions submitted in advance of the meeting, following the instructions provided in the proxy statement, and if time allows, shareholder questions that abide by our rules of procedure that were submitted during the meeting. We reserve the right to ignore any inappropriate questions. I would now like to proceed with the formal portion of today's meeting. The notice regarding the availability of proxy materials was mailed to shareholders of record on or about April 17th, 2026. I request that the secretary present the affidavit of mailing of the notice of availability of proxy materials that was executed by Broadridge, the registrar and transfer agent of our common stock. Mr. Chairman, I present the affidavit of mailing, signed and certified by Broadridge. The affidavit states that the notice of availability of proxy materials were mailed on or about April 17th, 2026 to shareholders of record as of April 8th, 2026. I direct that the affidavit of mailing and the proxy materials be filed with minutes of the meeting. The first item of business for today's meeting is the election of nine directors to the board of directors, each to hold office until the 2027 annual meeting of shareholders or until the respective successors are duly elected and qualified. The candidates who were nominated by the company's current board of directors are listed in the proxy statement. In order to be elected to the board, each director nominee must receive the affirmative vote of the holders of a plurality of the votes cast at the annual meeting. The director nominees are as follows: Seth D. Yon, Robert A. DeSutter, Roszell Mack III, Eric D. Major, Keith G. Myers, Ronald T. Nixon, Sara N. Ortwein, Ann Beal Salamone, Eric D. Tanzberger. The board of directors has recommended that you vote for each of the director nominees. The second item of business for today's meeting is the ratification of the appointment of Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. to serve as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. The board previously determined to appoint Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. to serve as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the annual meeting that are entitled to vote on this proposal and are actually voted as required to ratify the appointment of Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. The board of the directors has recommended that you vote for the ratification of the appointment of Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. The third item of business for today's meeting is the approval on an advisory basis of the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in the proxy statement. Our shareholders are allowed to approve on an advisory basis of the compensation of our named executive officers. While the vote is not binding upon the company or our board of directors, the board of directors values the opinions expressed by shareholders on their vote on this proposal. The vote of the holders of a majority of the shareholders entitled to vote that are actually voted for, against, or expressly abstained on the proposal is required to approve on an advisory basis the compensation of our named executive officers. The board of directors has recommended that you vote for the advisory vote to approve the compensation of our named executive officers. The fourth item of business for today's meeting is the approval on an advisory basis of the frequency of future advisory votes on named executive officer compensation as disclosed in the proxy statement. Our shareholders are allowed to approve on an advisory basis the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation. While the vote is not binding upon the company or the board of directors, the board of directors values the opinions expressed by shareholders in their vote on this proposal. The alternative among one year, two years, or three years that receives the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the annual meeting that are entitled to vote, that are actually voted on the proposal, will be deemed to be the frequency preferred by our shareholders. The board of directors has recommended that you vote for three years with respects to the frequency of future advisory votes on named executive officer compensation. That completes the matters of business to be conducted as set in the proxy statement and accompanying notice. As there are no further matters to be voted on, the polls to vote will close shortly. If any shareholder has not yet voted and would like to do so, please submit your vote online at this time so that it will be counted by our inspector of election. At this time, all completed online ballots should have been submitted. I now declare the polls closed and direct the inspector of election to collect and tabulate the votes. We will now announce preliminary results of the shareholders' votes. Mr. Gachassin, will you please state the preliminary results of the voting of the shareholders? Each of the nominees for election to the Board of Directors, Seth D. Yon, Ronald T. Nixon, Robert A. DeSutter, Roszell Mack III, Eric D. Major, Keith G. Myers, Sara N. Ortwein, Ann Beal Salamone, and Eric D. Tanzberger, have received a plurality of the votes cast by the shareholders at the annual meeting. The ratification of the appointment of Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026, has been approved by holders of a majority of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the annual meeting that were entitled to vote on this proposal. The advisory vote to approve the compensation of our named executive officers has received a majority of the votes of the shares entitled to vote that were actually voted on this proposal. For the advisory vote to approve their frequency of future advisory votes on named executive officer compensation, the frequency of three years has received a majority of the votes of the shares entitled to vote that were actually voted on this proposal. Thank you, Mr. Gachassin. Based on the preliminary report of the vote of the shareholders, each of the nominees for election to the board of directors has been duly elected. The appointment of Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. has been ratified. The compensation of our named executive officers has been approved, and the frequency of future advisory votes on named executive officer compensation shall be three years. The inspector of election will furnish to the secretary a written report of the final vote count with respect to the matters voted on today, which shall be included in the minutes of the meeting. In addition, the final voting results will be reported in a current report on Form 8-K, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission no later than four business days following the end of this annual meeting. There being no other formal matters of business to conduct, this concludes our 2026 annual meeting of shareholders. The annual meeting is now adjourned. That concludes the question and answers. In closing, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your attendance at the meeting and your interest in the company. This concludes today's meeting. You may now disconnect.
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