Heritage Global Inc.

Good day and welcome to the Heritage Global Incorporated fourth quarter and year-end earnings conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on a touch-tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to John Nesbitt, Investor Relations for Heritage Global. Please go ahead.

Thank you and good afternoon, everyone. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that this conference call contains forward-looking statements based on our current expectations and projections about future events and are subject to change based on various important factors. In light of these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as a date of this call. For more details and factors that could affect these expectations, please see our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Heritage Global's Chief Executive Officer, Ross Dove. Go ahead, Ross.

Brian, why don't you take off and start us, and then I'll give a follow-up afterwards. Go ahead, Brian.