Ashish Masih | President, CEO & Director |
Bruce Thomas | VP, IR |
Jonathan Clark | EVP, CFO & Treasurer |
Kenneth Stannard | CEO, the Cabot Credit Management Group |
Robert Dodd | Raymond James & Associates |
David Scharf | JMP Securities |
Brian Hogan | William Blair & Company |
Hugh Miller | The Buckingham Research Group |
Dominick Gabriele | Oppenheimer |
Mark Hughes | SunTrust Robinson Humphrey |
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Encore Capital Group's Q2 2019 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions].
As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Mr. Bruce Thomas, Vice President of Investor Relations.