AgEagle Aerial Systems, Inc.

Good day, everyone, and thank you for participating in today's conference call. Joining us today from AgEagle is Chief Executive Officer Michael Drozd, Chief Financial Officer Nicole Fernandez-McGovern, and Chief Operating Officer Brandon Torres-Declet. Following the management team's prepared remarks, they will respond to questions that were previously submitted via email by analysts and investors. Before I introduce Michael, I remind you that during today's call, including the question and answer session, Statements that are not historical facts, including any projections, statements regarding future events or future financial performance, or statements of intent or belief are forward-looking statements and are covered by the safe harbor disclaimers contained in the company's public filings with the SEC. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed in or implied by these forward-looking statements. With that said, I'll turn the call over to AgEagle CEO, Michael Drozd. Michael?

Yeah, thank you, Taryn, and good afternoon, everyone. I'd like to kick things off today by recapping several developments at AgEagle over the past several months. I'll then turn the floor to Nicole, who will comment on our comparative financial performance for the first quarter, along with other financial matters. Following Nicole's remarks, Brandon Torres-Declette, the newest addition to our leadership team, will join the conversation to provide you with some highlights into our future growth plans, product development initiatives, and other business-building strategies that we believe may best position us to empower and dominate the drone age. We will then conclude the call with a Q&A session, during which we will endeavor to address several of the most relevant questions you sent into our IR team at Gateway prior to today's call. Since I became CEO in May of 2020, we have remained focused on leveraging AgEagle's strong foundation to ensure our company maintains its industry-leading reputation of providing American-made, scalable drone solutions to our customers. We continue to execute on our primary growth objectives to meet the vision of being a global leader of the drone age. We have made huge strides in realizing this vision by building on our strengths through, one, pursuing highly strategic acquisitions, two, recruiting an incredibly talented, experienced, diverse team from within and outside our industry. Three, successfully raising growth capital. And four, working to establish the industry's first true quality standards for U.S.-based contract manufacturing. Since the start of the year, we have made two strategic acquisitions that have transformed our business and has propelled AgEagle to new heights. As we discussed on our January call, we acquired Micasense from Parrot. Micasense brings us an amazing, talented team of industry professionals as well as the industry's premier high-quality sensor technologies sold in over 70 countries worldwide and integrated into over 150 different drones. Then in April, we announced the acquisition of Measure, an aerial intelligence company that builds software to automate drone operation workflows. With end-to-end program management, user-friendly flight control, and in-platform data analysis, Measures' comprehensive software solution, Ground Control, helps businesses save thousands of hazardous man hours and creates millions of dollars in operational benefits. Ground Control is a leading SaaS solution, offering the industry's most advanced features at an unbeatable price point. We acquired Measures because their software is essential to enable our comprehensive drone solution platform. Moreover, They bring us an established and growing customer base comprised largely of Fortune 500 companies. In addition, Measure brings AgEagle, a world-class team of engineers, developers, oh, and by the way, a tech titan. Brandon Torres de Klepp, Measure's co-founder and CEO, was again recently named by Washington Magazine as an industry tech titan in 2021, after already being recognized as such in 2018 and 2019. In addition to his long list of noticeable accomplishments and industry acclaims, Brandon also has a seat at the FAA table, having been appointed to the Drone Advisory Committee by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. This is the guiding group for developing the regulatory framework to integrate drones into the U.S. airspace. With Brandon now serving as AgEagle's chief operating officer and as a member of our board of directors, we look forward to benefiting from his leadership experience, industry influence, and passion for all things drones. With these strategic acquisitions, coupled with our ongoing recruiting efforts, AgEagle has grown our workforce from a small, dedicated team of approximately a dozen professionals at the end of 2020 to an industry force to be reckoned with that is fast approaching 50 incredibly talented team members. I could not be more proud of the tight-knit, results-focused team that we are building, as well as the new career opportunities that we are creating for like-minded high achievers. Looking at our ag solution businesses, earlier this year we announced the state of Iowa became the second state Department of Agriculture to adopt our hemp overview platform. The agreement allows Iowa to leverage our platform to manage online registration, payment processing, data collection, and compliance oversight of the hemp fields for three years. In addition, we continue to work with the state of Florida to expand its use of hemp overview to manage oversight of hemp and other high-value crops in the state. We are also continuing discussions with other state departments of agriculture and expect that we will have additional new customer wins to announce in the near future. As we look ahead to the rest of 2021, we believe that three primary themes will guide us and influence our decision-making processes. First is precision. Leveraging advanced technology and drone innovation to deliver the industry's most reliable, safe, and effective solutions on the market. Second is quality, establishing the industry's first quality standards for U.S.-based drone contract manufacturing and assembly. And third is vision, remaining focused on executing strategies that allow us to define entirely new standards of excellence and scalability for the enterprise drone industry. As always, I want to thank our shareholders, all 152,000 of you, for your continued support of AgEagle and for the confidence you have placed in our team. We greatly appreciate your enthusiasm for AgEagle and our phenomenal team, your appreciation for the role that drones will play in almost every industry, and for sharing our vision for the future of the drone age. Now I'd like to turn over the floor to AgEagle CFO Nicole to provide some key highlights relating to our company's first quarter financial performance. Nicole?

Thank you, Michael, and thanks to all of you for joining us on this afternoon's call. This past Friday, we filed our 10-Q with the SEC, which can be accessed on the SEC.gov. And this morning, we announced some key highlights from the report. For the three months ended March 31st, 2021, revenues climbed to approximately $1.7 million compared to approximately $391,000 reported for the same three-month period in 2020. The increase is primarily due to revenue generated by the sales of MicaSense sensors to its global customer base, coupled with licensing fees and revenue share received from the state of Iowa and the state of Florida for hemp overview. It is also noteworthy to mention that MicaSense outperformed its internal projections for the first quarter of this year. It is our belief that as a result of becoming a part of the AgEagles portfolio, MarketSense value propositions to its customers and prospective customers continues to strengthen and is serving to accelerate the company's growth trajectory. Our growth margin also significantly improved, rising to 63% for the first three months of 2021 compared to 55% in the first quarter of last year. The increase is a result of AgEagle's strategy to expand our product and service offerings to include higher margin drone sensor sales and SaaS software solutions. Looking at our balance sheet, our cash position remains strong with $24.2 million at March 31, 2021. And that was after providing the use of approximately $13 million in cash for our $23 million acquisition of Micasense. We also invested $206,000 in ongoing product development of our sensor and software solutions in the first quarter. Subsequent to the end of the quarter in April, we completed the acquisition of measure for total cash and stock consideration of 45 million. The purchase price was comprised of 15 million in cash and approximately 5.3 million shares of common stock valued at 30 million. As a reminder, we filed an initial registration statement with the SEC in February, providing for up to $200 million to be raised through the issuance of registered shares from time to time in indeterminate amounts and in an indeterminate time. The registration statement has been cleared by the SEC. The purpose of the registration statement is to ensure that AgEagle can opportunistically raise capital when necessary to support our future growth strategy. These strategies may include pursuing additional strategic acquisitions, making investments in new product development, and redoubling our sales and marketing efforts to enterprise customers. Now, I have the pleasure of introducing to you all your new COO and member of our Board of Directors, Brandon Torres-Declette. Brandon will provide you with details and perspectives on new recent developments involving the integration of Micasense and Measure into AgEagle, as well as his thoughts on our collective future growth strategies. Brandon, over to you.