Barry Niziolek | Executive VP & CFO |
Christopher Pappas | CEO, President & Director |
David Stasse Trinseo | VP of Treasury & Corporate Finance |
David Begleiter | Deutsche Bank |
Hassan Ahmed | Alembic Global |
Laurence Alexander | Jefferies |
Vincent Andrews | Morgan Stanley |
Dylan Campbell | Goldman Sachs |
Matthew Blair | Tudor, Pickering, Holt |
Eric Petrie | Citi |
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Trinseo's Second Quarter 2018 Financial Results Conference Call. We welcome the Trinseo management team, Chris Pappas, President and CEO; Barry Niziolek, Executive Vice President and CFO; and David Stasse, Vice President of Treasury and Corporate Finance. Today's conference call will include brief remarks by the management team followed by a question-and-answer session. The company distributed more detailed remarks on its financial results, along with a press release and presentation slides at the close of market yesterday. These documents are posted on the company's Investor Relations website, and by means of a Form 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.