Dawne S. Hickton
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, shareholders, esteemed guests, my name is Dawne Hickton, the Chair of Elevra Lithium Limited. I’m honored to chair today’s extraordinary general meeting. And on behalf of my fellow directors, it’s my pleasure to welcome you to this EGM. Joining me here in Brisbane is our Managing Director and CEO, Lucas Dow. Many of our other nonexecutive directors are joining us online.
At this EGM, we will be asking for your approval and ratification of various share and option issuances and the financing arrangements outlined in the Notice of Meeting. Today’s EGM is a hybrid meeting. It’s being held both here in person in the Capri by Fraser in Brisbane and online via the Computershare online meeting platform. Online attendees can watch a live webcast of the meeting and have the ability to ask questions and submit votes online via the Computershare online virtual meeting platform.
If technical issues arise with the webcast, and I don’t believe it is reasonable in the circumstances to proceed with the meeting because of that, I will adjourn the meeting until the problem is fixed. Where the meeting is adjourned for a prolonged period, we will upload notification of the adjournment onto the ASX platform and the Elevra website. We will also provide details on those sites about when the adjourned meeting will be reconvened. I hope this won’t happen.
So I now call this meeting to order. I confirm that quorum is present and now formally declare the meeting open. Our Group CFO, Christian Cortes; and our Company Secretary, Dylan Roberts, are also in attendance. Our share registry, Computershare, is represented today by Jessie Yerma, who is appointed as our returning
