Lindblad Expeditions Holdings Inc.

Thank you for standing by. My name is Gail and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Lean Blacks 2024 fourth quarter earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, kindly press star 1 again. I will now turn the call over to Rick Goldberg, CFO. Please go ahead.

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for Lin-Blad's 2024 Fourth Quarter Earnings Call. With me on the call today is Natalia Leahy, Chief Executive Officer, and Sven Lin-Blad, Founder and Co-Chairman. Dyson Dryden, who served as our interim chief financial officer last year before returning to our board of directors, is also here to help answer questions. We'll start with some brief comments from Sven, then Natalia will share her initial impressions and roadmap for the business, and I will follow with details on our 2024 results and 2025 expectations before we open the call for Q&A. As always, you can find our latest earnings release in the investor relations section of our website. But before we get to all of that, I'd like to remind everyone that the company's comments today may include forward-looking statements. Those expectations are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results and performance to be materially different from these expectations. The company cannot guarantee the accuracy of any forecast or estimates, and we undertake no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. If you would like more information on the risks involved in forward-looking statements, please see the company's SEC filings. In addition, our comments may reference non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and other associated disclosures are contained in the company's earnings release. With that out of the way, I'll turn the call over to Svet.

Good morning, and thank you all for joining us. We're delighted to bring you the conclusion of 2024, which produced records on a multitude of fronts. Our new CEO, Natalia Leahy, and our new CFO, Rick Goldberg, will shortly provide you with details. But before handing over to them, a few thoughts. Lindblad Expeditions is now 45 years old, having begun as a division of my father's company, Lindblad Expeditions. I have found great joy in leading and building the enterprise over these years. Our North Star of providing meaningful, life-enhancing experiences for our guests has never wavered, nor has the importance of being good stewards on behalf of the planet. Now with 12 owned ships, nine which we charter, and five incredible land-based companies, we have an incredibly diverse organization poised for continued innovation and growth. So this year was a perfect one to hand the CEO leadership over to Natalia Leahy, who comes to the company with deep experience, rising through the ranks of Carnival Corporation, Holland America Line, and ultimately to the presidency of Seabourn Cruise Lines. She is both capable and intensely excited about what she can contribute to this next phase of our evolution. Together with Rick Goldberg, our new CFO, they have hit the ground running and already in their short time here are having a positive impact. I will continue to work closely with them in my role as co-chair of the board, helping to keep our enterprise vibrant and growing. And finally, both Dyson Dryden and I will be on this call should there be any questions that we can be helpful with at the end of the presentation. And now I'll hand the call back to Natalia Leahy.