Good morning. My name is Alise Reicin, and I am President and Chief Executive Officer of Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc. I am very happy to welcome you to the Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc. 2026 Annual Stockholders Meeting. The meeting will now officially come to order. The time is now 9:00 A.M. on Monday, June 8th, 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. This meeting is being recorded and will be archived for one year after the date of the annual meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com. Before we proceed with the formal business of the meeting, I would like to introduce you to the members of the board and the business team who are with us today. The other members of the board with us virtually today are François Nader, Praveen Tipirneni, Stefan Vitorovic, Tim Springer, Phil Dannenberg, and Jessica Chutter. The other officers of the company with us virtually today are Dan Lochner, our Chief Financial Officer, Marcella Ruddy, our Chief Medical Officer, Peter McNamara, our Chief Scientific Officer, and Marc Schwabish, our Chief Business Officer. I would also like to introduce Kevin Gauvreau of Deloitte & Touche LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm, who is also in attendance virtually and available to respond to appropriate questions as needed. We will proceed with the formal business of the meeting in the order set forth in the notice of the annual meeting and proxy statement. We will first present the three proposals submitted for approval by our board. Then we will announce the preliminary results of the voting, after which we will take questions related to the proposals or any questions for the auditors. 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. 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. After the formal part of our meeting is concluded, we will answer any appropriate questions you may have. The rules of conduct for this meeting are posted on the virtual meeting webcast at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/tecx2026 by clicking Rules of Conduct on the right-hand side of the screen. In order to conduct an orderly meeting, we ask that you follow these rules. Stockholders who are attending this meeting with a valid 16-digit control number may submit questions or comments for the Q&A portion of this meeting through the text box located on the virtual meeting screen. We will try to answer questions submitted that are germane to the proposals and/or this meeting, as and if we have time. Sam Mailloux, the company's Corporate Controller, will screen incoming questions and during the Q&A portion of the meeting will read germane questions out loud before I respond. Please submit your questions now to make sure they are received in a timely fashion for our review and response. Please note that our discussion today may include forward-looking statements and our actual results may differ materially from those discussed here. Additional information concerning factors that could cause such a difference can be found in our most recently filed quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Sam Mailloux will act as Secretary of this meeting. Sam, will you 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 holders of record of the company's common stock on April 13th, 2026, the record date for this meeting. A list of stockholders of record is available for inspection by stockholders of record during this meeting for any reason germane to this meeting. Please click on Registered Shareholders List in your online portal to view the list. I also have an affidavit certifying that notice of this annual meeting of stockholders of the company was duly given to all stockholders of record at the close of business on April 13th, 2026. A copy of the notice and affidavit will be filed with the records of the meeting. At this time, I'd like to introduce Louis Larsen of Broadridge, who is present virtually. Louis has been appointed to act as Inspector of Election at this meeting. Louis has taken and subscribed the customary oath of office to execute his duties with strict impartiality. We will file this oath with the records of the meeting. 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 the number of proxies we have received constitutes a quorum for the meeting today. We may now carry out the official business of the meeting. We will now proceed with the formal business of the meeting. After all of the proposals have been described, we will announce the preliminary results and answer any questions related to the proposals submitted online. As a reminder, we ask that any comments or questions pertain only to the proposals. Please submit any questions as soon as possible for our review. There are three proposals to be considered by the stockholders at this meeting. The first item of business is the election of two Class II directors to serve until the 2029 annual meeting and until their successors are elected. The nominees for Class II director are Timothy A. Springer and Stefan Vitorovic. The second item of business today is the ratification of the appointment by the board of directors of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. The third item of business today is the advisory vote on the compensation of the company's named executive officers as described in the proxy statement. The stockholders have been asked to vote on an advisory basis on the following resolution. Resolved, that the compensation paid to the company's named executive officers as disclosed pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K, including the compensation tables and narrative discussions, is hereby approved. May we have the preliminary results of the voting? The report of the Inspector of Election covering the proposals presented at this meeting is as follows. Timothy A. Springer and Stefan Vitorovic have been reelected as Class II directors of the company to serve until the 2029 annual meeting and until their successors are elected. The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026 is ratified, and the resolution concerning the advisory vote on the compensation of the company's named executive officers is approved. We expect to report our preliminary voting results, or, if available to us on a timely basis, our final voting results on a current report on Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC within four business days after the end of this meeting. If not earlier reported, we expect to report our final voting results in an amendment to our Form 8-K within four business days after the final results are known to us. We will now review if there are any questions submitted about the proposals or addressed to the auditors before we close the polls. As a reminder, we will only review and answer questions at this time that pertain to the proposals. Sam, are there any questions? No, there are no questions at this time. There are no questions. The time is now 9:09 A.M., and the polls are now closed for voting. This concludes today's meeting. Thank you for your attendance at today's meetings, for your continued support of Tectonic Therapeutic. The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.
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