Selim Bassoul | CEO |
Tim FitzGerald | CFO |
David Brewer | COO, Commercial Foodservice |
Josh Chan | Robert W. Baird |
Robert Barry | Susquehanna |
Jason Rodgers | Great Lakes Review |
Larry De Maria | William Blair |
Jeff Hammond | KeyBanc Capital Markets |
Joel Tiss | BMO |
Saree Boroditsky | Deutsche Bank |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us for The Middleby’s Corporation First Quarter Conference Call. With us today from management are Selim Bassoul, CEO; Tim FitzGerald, Chief Financial Officer; and David Brewer, Chief Operating Officer of Commercial Foodservice.
We will begin the call with opening commentary, then open the lines for question-and-answer. [Operator Instructions] Right now, I’d like to turn the call over to Mr.