David Stasse | Vice President, Treasury and Investor Relations |
Frank Bozich | President and CEO |
Barry Niziolek | EVP and CFO |
David Begleiter | Deutsche Bank |
Frank Mitsch | Fermium Research |
Laurence Alexander | Jefferies |
Mike Leithead | Barclays |
Eric Petrie | Citi |
Dylan Campbell | Goldman Sachs |
Hassan Ahmed | Alembic Global |
Angel Castillo | Morgan Stanley |
Matthew Blair | Tudor, Pickering, Holt |
Roger Spitz | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Trinseo First Quarter 2019 Financial Results Conference Call. We welcome the Trinseo management team, Frank Bozich, President and CEO; Barry Niziolek, Executive Vice President and CFO; and David Stasse, Vice President of Treasury and Investor Relations. Today's conference call will include brief remarks by the management team followed by a question-and-answer session. The Company distributed its press release along with its presentation slides at 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.