Good afternoon, and welcome to the Moving iMage Technologies First Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast.
With me today is Chairman and CEO, Phil Rafnson, CFO Mike Sherman and Executive VP of Sales and Marketing Joe Delgado.
Today’s call will begin with prepared remarks and follow with a virtual Q&A session.
Please submit your questions through the webcast portal and we will do our best to answer them.
This earnings call may contain forward-looking statements as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, including statements regarding among other things the company's business strategy and growth strategy.
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