Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc.

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance Incorporated first quarter 2023 earnings call. At this time, participants are only in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a Q&A session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1-1 on your telephone. You will hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Tripp Sullivan.

Please go ahead. Tripp Sullivan Thank you. Good morning.

Welcome to the Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance Conference call to review the company's results for the first quarter of 2023. On the call today will be John Mazarrakis, Executive Chairman. Tony Kappel, Chief Executive Officer. Andreas Bodmeier, Co-President and Chief Investment Officer. and Phil Silverman, Interim Chief Financial Officer. Our results were released this morning in our earnings press release, which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website, along with our supplemental file with the SEC. A live audio webcast of this call is being made available today. For those who listened to the replay of this webcast, we remind you that the remarks made herein are as of today, May 9, 2023, It will not be updated subsequent to this call. During this call, certain comments and statements we make may be deemed forward-looking statements within the meaning prescribed by the securities laws, including statements related to the future performance of our portfolio, our pipeline of potential loans and other investments, future dividends, and financing activity. All forward-looking statements represent Chicago Atlantic's judgment as of the date of this conference call, and are subject to risk and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. Investors are urged to carefully review various disclosures made by the company, including the risk and other information disclosed in the company's balance with the SEC. We also will discuss certain non-GAAP measures, including but not limited to distributable earnings and adjusted distributable earnings. Definitions of these non-GAAP measures and reconciliations to the most comparable gap measures are included in our filings with the SEC. I'll turn the call over to John Mazarrakis. Please go ahead.