Allient Inc.

Greetings and welcome to Alliant First Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Craig Mihalik, Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.

And good morning, everyone. Appreciate your time today as well as your interest in Alliant, Inc. My name is Dick Rosella, President and CEO, and Jackson Trostle, our Corporate Controller. We're going to review our first quarter 2024 results and provide an update on the company's strategic progress and outlook, after which we'll open up for Q&A via the financial results that were released yesterday after the market closed. If not, you can find it at our website at Alliant.com. along with the slides that accompany today's discussion. If there are no slides, please turn to slide two for the safe harbor statement. We may make forward-looking statements on this call during the formal discussion, as well as during the Q&A. Slide of future events that are subject to uncertainties, as well as other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from what is stated on today's call. Uncertainties and other factors are discussed in the earnings release. documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission documents on our website or at SEC gov as well that during today's call we will discuss some non gap measures which we believe will be useful in evaluating our performance for the presentation of this additional information in isolation substitute for results prepared in accordance with gap by the reconciliations of non gap measures in the tables accompanying the earnings release and slides.

And I'll turn it over to Dick to begin. Thank you, Craig, and welcome, everyone.