Samir Manji
Executive Chairman of the Board
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the First Annual Meeting of Shareholders of RFA Financial Inc. following the completion of its business combination transaction with Artis Real Estate Investment Trust. My name is Samir Manji, I serve as the Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of RFA Financial. I look forward to connecting with many of you today in person. For those who are unable to join us in person, we have provided a live audio webcast, a replay of which will be available on the RFA Financial website following today’s meeting.
Before we get started, I would like to introduce our current Directors, most of whom are here with us in person. Richard Bradlow, Heather-Anne Irwin, Steven Joyce, myself, Jackie Moss, Ben Rodney, Jeff Royer, Mike Shaikh and Lis Wigmore.
In addition, I’d like to introduce our proposed director nominees who will be joining the existing incumbent directors following today’s AGM. William [indiscernible], Mario [ Cazarano ], Peter Churchill-Smith, Nora Osbaldeston and D. Patterson.
I would like to also introduce members of our management team, in particular, our executive team who are in attendance today. Ben Rodney, President and Chief Executive Officer; Jaclyn Koenig, Chief Financial Officer; and Melody Lo, Chief Operating Officer.
I will now move to the formal business of the meeting. I call this meeting to order. In accordance with RFA’s bylaw #1, I will preside as Chair of this meeting and I appoint Kara Watson, the Corporate Secretary of RFA to act as Secretary for the meeting. I appoint Odyssey Trust Company to act as scrutineer for the meeting. Rebecca Liu is