Susan Kennedy
CEO & Chairman

Good morning. I'm Susan Kennedy, Chair of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer of the company, and I'll be acting as Chair of this meeting.

Welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. We wish to express our thanks to you for your attendance at this virtual meeting today.

I'd like to introduce the following officers and directors of the company who are attending today's meeting: Board members, Steve Courter, Maria Dreyfus, Maria Echaveste, Winston Hickox, Barbara Lloyd, Kenneth Lombard, David O'Hara, Richard Polanco, Cathryn Rivera, our COO; and Stan Speer, our CFO. Also attending are Jessica Allen, who is a representative of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the company's auditors; and Howard Unterberger, the company's General Legal Counsel.

Stan Speer, our CFO, will act as Secretary of the Meeting, and I've asked Tiffany Bagnara to act as Inspector of Election. As a reminder, validated stockholders in attendance may ask questions via the designated field in the virtual meeting platform. Questions submitted prior to the conclusion of the meeting will be monitored by the company. The company will arrange for all submitted questions to receive a response promptly after the meeting.

I shall now ask the Inspector of Election to present her quorum report to the meeting.

Tiffany Bagnara

As the Inspector of Election, I will now present the quorum report to the meeting. According to the stockholders list dated April 22, 2026, issued by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the company's transfer agent, the number of shares of common stock of the company issued and outstanding on April 22, 2026, the record date of said meeting was 83,701,286 with the right to 1 vote per share and the holders of the company's Series