Annette Arribas | Senior Director, Global IR |
Ajei Gopal | CEO |
Maria Shields | SVP & CFO |
Kenneth Wong | Guggenheim Securities |
Jay Vleeschhouwer | Griffin Securities |
Ken Talanian | Evercore ISI |
Matt Pfau | William Blair |
Rob Oliver | Robert W. Baird |
Steve Koenig | Wedbush |
Rich Valera | Needham & Company |
Jason Celino | KeyBanc Capital |
Ross MacMillan | RBC Capital Markets |
Saket Kalia | Barclays |
Adam Borg | Stifel Nicolaus |
Sterling Auty | JPMorgan |
Jason Rodgers | Great Lakes Review |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to ANSYS' First Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. With us today are Ajei Gopal, Chief Executive Officer, Maria Shields, SVP and Chief Financial Officer and Annette Arribas, Senior Director of Global Investor Relations. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Ms. Arribas for some opening remarks.
Good morning, everyone.