Barry Sloane | President, Chief Executive Officer & Founder |
Chris Towers | Chief Accounting Officer |
Chris York | JMP Securities |
Mickey Schleien | Ladenburg |
Robert Dodd | Raymond James |
Luke Wooten | KBW |
Marc Silk | Silk Investment Advisors |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Newtek Business Services Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded.
I would now like to introduce your host for today’s conference Mr.