Annette N. Arribas | ANSYS, Inc. |
Ajei S. Gopal | ANSYS, Inc. |
Maria T. Shields | ANSYS, Inc. |
Jay Vleeschhouwer | Griffin Securities, Inc. |
Richard Valera | Needham & Co. LLC |
Sterling Auty | JPMorgan Securities LLC |
Rob Oliver | Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. |
Gabriela Borges | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
Ken Talanian | Evercore Group LLC |
Monika Garg | KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. |
Ross MacMillan | RBC Capital Markets |
Steve R. Koenig | Wedbush Securities, Inc. |
Gal Munda | Berenberg Capital Markets LLC |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to ANSYS' First Quarter 2018 Earnings Conference Call. With us today are Ajei Gopal, Chief Executive Officer; Maria Shields, Chief Financial Officer; and Annette Arribas, Senior Director, Global Investor Relations. At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to Ms. Arribas for some opening remarks.
Thank you, Brandon.