Jeff Holy | Vice President & Treasurer |
Albert Chao | President & Chief Executive Officer |
Steve Bender | Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
Chris Perrella | UBS |
Patrick Cunningham | Citi |
David Begleiter | Deutsche Bank |
Aleksey Yefremov | KeyBanc |
Kevin McCarthy | Vertical Research Partners |
Michael Leithead | Barclays |
Matthew DeYoe | Bank of America |
Matthew Blair | TPH |
Arun Viswanathan | RBC Capital Markets |
Turner Hinrichs | Morgan Stanley |
Michael Sison | Wells Fargo |
Frank Mitsch | Fermium Research |
John Roberts | Credit Suisse |
Hassan Ahmed | Alembic Global Advisors. |
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Westlake Corporation Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, this conference is being recorded today, August 3, 2023.
I would now like to turn the call over to today’s host, Jeff Holy, Westlake's Vice President and Treasurer. Sir, you may begin.