Todd Spencer | Corporate VP, IR |
James Foster | Chairman, CEO & President |
David Smith | CFO |
Tycho Peterson | JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
Courtney Owens | William Blair & Company |
Luke Sergott | Evercore ISI |
Robert Jones | Goldman Sachs Group |
Jack Meehan | Barclays Bank |
David Windley | Jefferies |
Stephen Baxter | Wolfe Research |
Timothy Evans | UBS Investment Bank |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Charles River Laboratories' First Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions].
As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr.