Marc Grandisson | President and Chief Executive Officer |
Mark Lyons | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Kai Pan | Morgan Stanley |
Elyse Greenspan | Wells Fargo |
Amit Kumar | Buckingham Research Group |
Josh Shanker | Deutsche Bank |
Geoffrey Dunn | Dowling & Partners |
Jay Cohen | Bank of America |
Meyer Shields | KBW |
Ian Gutterman | Balyasny |
Ryan Tunis | Autonomous Research |
Michael Zaremski | Credit Suisse |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the First Quarter 2018 Arch Capital Group Earnings Conference Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct the question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.
Before the company gets started with its update, management wants to first remind everyone that certain statements in today's press release and discussed on this call may constitute forward-looking statements under the Federal Securities laws.