Annette Arribas | Senior Director, Global IR |
Ajei Gopal | CEO |
Maria Shields | SVP & CFO |
Richard Valera | Needham & Co. LLC |
Kenneth Wong | Guggenheim Securities |
Sterling Auty | JPMorgan |
Saket Kalia | Barclays |
Steve Koenig | Wedbush Securities |
Gabriela Borges | Goldman Sachs |
Kenneth Talanian | Evercore ISI |
Matthew Pfau | William Blair |
Ross MacMillan | RBC Capital Markets |
Jay Vleeschhouwer | Griffin Securities |
Monika Garg | KeyBanc Capital Markets |
Matt Lemenager | Robert W. Baird & Company |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to ANSYS's Fourth Quarter 2018 Earnings Conference Call. With us today are Ajei Gopal, Chief Executive Officer; Maria Shields, SVP and Chief Financial Officer; and Annette Arribas, Senior Director, Global Investor Relations. [Operator Instructions] Please note, the call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Ms. Arribas for some opening remarks.