Banner Corporation

Hello all and welcome to Banner Corporation's second quarter 2024 conference call and webcast. My name is Lydia and I'll be your operator today. After the speaker's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question during the Q&A, you can do so by pressing star followed by one on your telephone keypad. I'll now hand you over to your host, Mark Brescovich, to begin. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Lydia, and good morning, everyone. I would also like to welcome you to the second quarter 2024 earnings call for Banner Corporation. Joining me on the call today is Rob Butterfield, Banner Corporation's Chief Financial Officer, Jill Rice, our Chief Credit Officer, and Rich Arnold, our Head of Investor Relations. Rich, would you please read our forward-looking safe harbor statement?

Sure, Mark. Good morning. Our presentation today discusses Banner's business outlook and will include forward-looking statements. Those statements include descriptions of management's plans, objectives, or goals for future operations, products or services, forecasts of financial or other performance measures, and statements about Banner's general outlook for economic and other conditions. We also may make other forward-looking statements in the question and answer period following management's discussion. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from those discussed today. Information on the risk factors that could cause actual results to differ are available in the earnings press release that was released yesterday and a recently filed form 10Q for the quarter ended March 31st, 2024. Forward-looking statements are effective only as of the date they are made and Banner assumes no obligation to update information concerning its expectation. Mark?