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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Erlikon's 2024 results presentation. My name is Stefan Gick, Head of Investor Relations and I have here with me Michael Suess, our Executive Chairman and Markus Richter, CFO of Erlikon. Michael will start the presentation with a strategy update and an overview on 2024, then Markus will highlight the financials and the outlook. We will take questions at the end. With that, I would like to open our presentation and hand over to Michael. The floor is yours.

Thank you. And I will remain seated for a moment because first after I have done my introduction, which will be very short, a good afternoon. And I'm pleased to have you here today for our annual press and capital market conference. I would like to introduce our new COO, who will join us by 1st April. replacing Markus Take. It's Dirk Linsmaier. And I would like to give Dirk a chance to introduce himself. He will start officially 1st of April, but having you all together, I wanted to give you the opportunity to go in touch directly with him. Dirk is one step of the let's say, not refreshing, that's the wrong word, but to make our management team a little bit younger. United, we have a lot of people, some people, like myself in the 60s or in the early 60s or end 50s. And one of my jobs is to make the management ready for the next 10, 15 years and to do a somehow and generation change. And Dirk is one of these very important steps. And by that, Dirk, maybe you take the opportunity to introduce yourself. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Michael, for the kind introduction. Dear ladies and gentlemen, I'm thrilled to join Erlikon April 1st. For me, Erlikon is a true high-tech player, actually, combining technology, innovation, and in the future, even more, digitalization. So I see there a great potential also in the next phase, and I think what has Michael driven so far towards the pure play, I see a big chance for Erlikon. A few words to myself. So I'm still the CEO of TT Tech Auto, Time Trigger Technology. It's an Austrian company where I have been the last three years, transformed this company, 20% growth each year, doubled sales. each year the profitability, and we have been acquired by NXP semiconductors beginning of the year. So we announced it in Las Vegas this year at the CES that NXP semiconductors will acquire T-TEC Auto, so the closing will happen in the next weeks and month. And that is definitely one of my highlights from the last three years. Before that, I was the CEO of AIM as Osram Intelligent Lighting and Osram Continental, a joint venture between Osram and Continental at that time, driving the change from traditional lighting to matrix lighting, to digital lighting. So one of the highlights there were doing the light carpets around BMW 7 Series or also the light carpet in a mini on the dashboard next to a traditional matrix lighting in the headlamp. Before that, I was 11 years at Bosch in various positions. I've been in China for three years. My daughter was born in China, in Shanghai, so she's proud being Shanghainese. And before that, I was at Daimler Chrysler, where I started my career in the research center. actually i'm really looking forward together with michael and the great team of earlycon driving the transformation and pushing growth and i'm happy to start then april 1st officially thank you very much thank you dirk