Bruce Thomas | Vice President, Investor Relations |
Ashish Masih | President and Chief Executive Officer |
Jonathan Clark | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Ken Stannard | Chief Executive Officer, Cabot Credit Management |
Mark Hughes | SunTrust |
Eric Hagen | KBW |
Brian Hogan | William Blair |
Dominick Gabriele | Oppenheimer |
Robert Dodd | Raymond James |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Encore Capital Group’s First Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I’d now like to turn the conference over to your host, Bruce Thomas, Vice President of Investor Relations.
You may begin, sir.