Operator
Whats up, and welcome to the Charles & Colvard 2025 Annual Assembly of Shareholders. Please be aware that this assembly is being recorded.
[Operator Instructions]
James Tu
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the 2025 Annual Assembly of Shareholders of Charles & Colvard. I am James Tu, Govt Chairman of the Board of Administrators of Charles & Colvard, and I am happy to welcome you right here at the moment. Our annual assembly is being held each just about and in individual. The assembly is now known as to order.
In case you are attending the assembly in individual and have any authorized proxies or ballots, please increase your hand and considered one of our employees will gather them in order that we might proceed in tabulating the outcomes. I want to take a few minutes to acknowledge some people on the assembly. First, current by way of teleconference is Craig Colosso of Equiniti, who has been appointed to function the voting inspector for this assembly. Mr. Colosso is a Senior Relationship Supervisor at Equiniti, switch agent for the corporate’s widespread inventory. On the head desk are members of the Charles & Colvard government workforce, Don O’Connell, President and CEO; Clint J. Pete, CFO; and Maria Flanagan, the corporate’s Company Secretary. Along with Don and myself, current at the moment are present Board members who’ve agreed to be nominated for one more yr, Ruten Bhanderi, Anne Butler and Neal Goldman.
I’ve just a few bulletins as to how this assembly will proceed. First, for these of you attending in individual as you entered the assembly at the moment, you must have obtained an agenda, which offers the order of enterprise that will probably be adopted in the course of the assembly. For these attending the assembly just about, the agenda is situated within the
