Tom Ward | Senior Vice President-Investor Relations |
David Simon | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
Rick Sokolov | Vice-Chairman |
Brian McDade | Chief Financial Officer |
Jim Sullivan | BTIG |
Craig Schmidt | Bank of America |
Jeremy Metz | BMO Capital Markets |
Michael Bilerman | Citi |
Nick Yulico | Scotiabank |
Steve Sakwa | Evercore ISI |
Alexander Goldfarb | Sandler O'Neill |
Caitlin Burrows | Goldman Sachs |
Rich Hill | Morgan Stanley |
Jeff Donnelly | Wells Fargo |
Michael Mueller | JPMorgan |
Linda Tsai | Barclays |
Ki Bin Kim | SunTrust |
Wes Golladay | RBC Capital Markets |
Hong Zhang | JPMorgan |
Omotayo Okusanya | Jefferies |
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Simon Property Group First Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session, and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host Mr.