David Rosenkrantz

So good morning, and welcome to the Annual General Meeting and Special Meeting of Shareholders of Aurora Spine Corporation. My name is David Rosenkrantz and I'm a Director of Aurora Spine Corporation. I will act as Chairman for today's meeting. I would like to thank everyone for joining, and I see some names that I'm not familiar with, perhaps, but welcome.

With me, we have Trent Northcutt, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Aurora Spine, and David Meyer, our Chief Legal Officer of the corporation and its Corporate Secretary, and David will -- David Meyer will act as Secretary for today's meeting. We asked certain shareholders to put forward the motions that are required, that's not unusual. If you have questions that are specific to the business of the meeting, that's outlined in the management circular, that was distributed to shareholders with the notice of meeting those should be asked at the time of the business before the meeting. If you have questions about the actual operations of the business or any other questions for management, we can do that when the meeting is terminated.

I have appointed Rosa Garofalo of TSX Trust Company, the corporation's registrar and transfer agent to act as scrutineer for today's meeting. Welcome Rosa. The notice calling the meeting and access instructions for the accompanying material have been mailed to all shareholders of the corporation, all directors and the auditor of the corporation, additional copies of the meeting can be made available if you need them. Secretary of the meeting has provided me with proof of service of such mailing. Accordingly, the