Karen Fletcher | VP, IR |
Scott Santi | Chairman & CEO |
Michael Larsen | SVP & CFO |
Andrew Kaplowitz | Citigroup |
Joseph Ritchie | Goldman Sachs Group |
Stephen Volkmann | Jefferies |
Jamie Cook | Crédit Suisse |
Jeffrey Sprague | Vertical Research Partners |
Joel Tiss | BMO Capital Markets |
Andrew Casey | Wells Fargo Securities |
Mircea Dobre | Robert W. Baird & Co. |
Ann Duignan | JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
Joshua Pokrzywinski | Morgan Stanley |
Walter Liptak | Seaport Global Securities |
Steven Fisher | UBS Investment Bank |
Nicole DeBlase | Deutsche Bank |
Welcome, and thank you for joining ITW's 2019 First Quarter Earnings Call. My name is Cheryl, and I will be your conference operator today. [Operator Instructions].
As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Karen Fletcher, Vice President of Investor Relations.