Ian Gandel
Good morning. I am Ian Gandel, Chair of Australian Strategic Materials, and it’s my pleasure to welcome you to this Extraordinary General Meeting of the company. I’d like to begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we are meeting and pay my respects to their elders past and present. I also extend my respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people here today.
I’m joined by my fellow Board members: Kerry Gleeson, Gavin Smith and Dominic Heaton, remotely from interstate and overseas, and Rowena Smith, present in the room in Perth. Also in attendance are Annaliese Eames, the Company Secretary; and Stephen Motteram, ASM’s CFO.
The formalities of today will follow the common format for general meetings. Voting will be conducted by way of poll on all items of business. A polling card should have been provided to you on entry today. A summary of these instructions can also be seen on the screen. If you’ve lodged your votes by submitting a proxy voting form prior to the proxy cutoff time and you would like your proxy votes to stand, you do not need to take any further action. Polling cards will be collected by representatives of Automic share registry at the conclusion of the meeting.
Those shareholders in attendance that are entitled to vote on the poll are all shareholders, representatives and attorneys of shareholders and proxy holders who hold yellow voting cards. If you are attending in one or more of these capacities, you will have been issued with 1 voting card with multiple card reference numbers to
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