Good morning. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Welcome to the virtual only special meeting of stockholders. I am Kent Rockwell, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and I will be presiding over this meeting. Loretta Benec will act as Corporate Secretary of the meeting. First, a few housekeeping items. The discussion today may include forward-looking statements. These kinds of statements involve risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements, and we assume no obligation to update them. We will conduct this meeting in accordance with the agenda and rules of conduct which are visible on the website. You will be able to vote and ask questions during the meeting using the meeting website portal. You may vote using the voting button on the meeting website portal. If you have already voted by proxy, you do not need to take any further action unless you wish to revoke your previously submitted proxy by voting at this meeting. Discussion during the meeting will be limited to items on the agenda. If you want to ask a question, please type and submit the question in Q&A tab provided on the meeting website portal, along with your name, city of residence, and whether you are a stockholder or a proxyholder. Ms. Benec will then read your question. Each stockholder will be limited to one question. First, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the directors and officers of the company who are present for this special meeting. Our directors, Paul Camuti, John Hartner, John Irvin, Gregory Pashke, Bill Strome, Roger Thiltgen, and Bonnie Wachtel. Our officers are John Hartner, the Chief Executive Officer, Loretta Benec, the Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Rick Lucas, the Chief Technology Officer, and Doug Zemba, the Chief Financial Officer. The Board of Directors has appointed a representative of American Election Services, Karl Wagner, to act as the Inspector of Elections. He has previously taken an oath as an Inspector of Elections, and a copy of the oath will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. This meeting is now called to order at 10:05 A.M., and if you want to vote, please do so now through the meeting website portal. Ms. Benec will now give a report on the mailing of the proxy materials for the special meeting and the list of stockholders and the quorum. The record date for voting at this meeting was October 4, 2021. I have an affidavit of distribution from Broadridge to show that it mailed or made available to each stockholder of record of this company the notice of the special meeting, the proxy statement, and a proxy card as required by law, which mailing was made on or prior to October 12, 2021. A copy of the affidavit will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. The list of stockholders entitled to vote at this special meeting has been available for examination by stockholders for more than 10 days prior to this meeting, as required by Delaware law. As required under our bylaws, the list also is available for inspection by stockholders at this meeting in the Materials tab at the bottom right of the meeting website portal. The stockholder list shows that holders of 22,361,254 shares of common stock of the company are entitled to vote at this special meeting. There are represented in person or by proxy 14,961,709 shares of common stock, or approximately 66.9% of all shares entitled to vote at this special meeting. A quorum is present. Thank you, Loretta. In regards of the matters to be voted upon, the board of directors has recommended three proposals for consideration by the stockholders, which are described in the proxy statement. The first proposal being submitted to the stockholders for action is the approval of the adoption of the agreement and plan of merger dated as of August 11, 2021, by and among Desktop Metal, Desktop Merger Sub, Inc., Texas Merger Sub II, LLC, and ExOne. The board of directors recommends a vote for the merger proposal. Therefore, I move for the approval of this proposal. I second the motion. The second proposal being submitted to the stockholders for action is to approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to the company's named executive officers in connection with the merger, the advisory executive compensation proposal. The Board of Directors recommends a non-binding advisory vote for the advisory executive compensation proposal. Therefore, I move for the approval of this proposal. I second the motion. The third and final being submitted to the shareholders is the action to approve one or more adjournments to this special meeting, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes to approve the merger proposal at the time of this special meeting. The board of directors recommends a vote for the adjournment proposal, and therefore, I move for the approval of this proposal. I second the motion. We would like to open things up for stockholder questions and comments in the meeting website portal. Again, please note each stockholder is permitted one question, comment, or statement, and only questions that are germane to this meeting may be addressed. Do we have any questions? We do not have any questions. The polls then will now be opened for voting as of 10:08. You may vote through the meeting website portal. We'll now take a few minutes to count any final proxies or votes on these proposals. If you've not already done so, please vote via the meeting website now. The polls are now closed at 10:07. Our inspector of elections will collect and tabulate the votes and provide a final report of the results to our corporate secretary. As required by the SEC rules, we will publish final voting results on a Form 8-K within four business days. Our corporate secretary will now provide a preliminary report of the results. Mr. Chairman, we have preliminary results on the proposals. The merger proposal has been approved by at least a majority of the outstanding shares of ExOne common stock entitled to vote thereon. The advisory executive compensation proposal has been approved. There being sufficient votes to approve the merger proposal, it is not necessary to consider the adjournment of this meeting in order to solicit additional proxies. As corporate secretary, I will proceed to file the written report of the inspector of elections showing the final vote count with respect to the matters voted on today with the minutes of this meeting. Thank you. I declare that this is now closed. That there being no other matters to address, I now adjourn this meeting as of 10:10, as permitted under the company's bylaws. Thank you for attending and for your continuing support of ExOne. Sorry about that. It's all right.
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