Abingdon Health Plc

Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Abingdon Health Plc half year results investor presentation. Questions are encouraged, they can be submitted at any time via the Q&A tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself, however the company can review all questions submitted today and will publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so on the InvestorMeet company platform. Before we begin, we would just like to submit the following poll, and if you'd give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I'd now like to hand you over to Executive Chairman Chris Hand. Chris, good morning, sir.

Good morning, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining this half-year results presentation of Abingdon Health. These are the results to the 31st of December, 25. So I'm Chris Hand. I'm one of the founders of Abingdon Health and Executive Chairman, a role I took up previously. about a year ago to allow my co-founder Chris Yates to focus on our global commercial activities and our USA expansion. My background is in medical diagnostics 30 years plus in medical diagnostics and specifically rapid testing which I did both within Abingdon and previously at a company called Cozart where we specialised in drugs abuse testing using lateral flow. I'm joined today by my colleague Tom Hayes who's CFO

Thanks Chris. Good morning everyone. I'm Tom Hayes. I joined Abingdon Health just over 12 months ago now as Chief Financial Officer. Previously I was Group Finance Director for another enlisted business, Northern Bear Plc, for circa 10 years. My background originally is Chartered Accountancy and Corporate Finance Services.