David Ryan | Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Investor Relations |
Luke Kissam | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
Scott Tozier | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Eric Norris | President, Lithium |
Raphael Crawford | President, Catalysts |
Josh Spector | UBS |
David Begleiter | Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. |
Arun Viswanathan | RBC Capital Markets Wealth Management |
Jeffrey Zekauskas | JPMorgan Securities LLC |
Prashant Juvekar | Citi Investment Research |
Robert Koort | Goldman Sachs & Company, Inc. |
Matthew Skowronski | Numora Securities Intl (America) |
Luke Washer | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Joel Jackson | BMO Capital Markets |
Colin Rusch | Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. |
Michael Harrison | Seaport Global Securities LLC |
Christopher Kapsch | Loop Capital Markets |
Dimitri Silverstein | Buckingham Research Group Inc |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Albemarle Corporation Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we’ll conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions].
As a reminder, this call is being recorded.