...Good morning and welcome to the 2025 annual shareholders meeting for CMS Energy Corporation and Consumers Energy Company. I'm John Russell, Chairman of the board. Thank you for joining us today. We will conduct the business portion of our meeting first, and then Garrick Rochow, President and CEO, will make a brief presentation followed by Q&A. I would like to introduce the other members of the Board of Directors who, like me, are up for election today. Deb Butler, Cordero, Ralph Izzo, Garry Rochow, Suzanne Shank, Myrna Soto, Chanavi. Ron Tanski and Laura Wright. Also present are representatives of our independent public accounting firm PWC and our Inspector of Elections. Now it is my pleasure to introduce Melissa Gleespen, Vice President, corporate secretary, and Chief Compliance Officer. Melissa will serve as secretary of the meeting and will handle the procedural matters. Melissa Gleespen ...
