Sigma Labs, Inc.

Good day and welcome to the Sigma Labs first quarter 2022 financial results conference call and webcast. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Chris Tyson, Executive Vice President of MZ North America. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you and good afternoon. I'd like to thank you all for taking time to join us for Sigma Labs first quarter 2022 business update and results conference call. Your hosts today are Mark Ruppert, Chairman, Jacob Brunsberg, Chief Executive Officer, and Frank Orszakowski, the company's Chief Financial Officer. A press release detailing these results crossed the wires this afternoon at 4.01 p.m. Eastern today and is available on the company's website, sigmalabsinc.com. Before we begin the formal presentation, I'd like to remind everyone that statements made on the call and webcast, including those regarding future financial results and industry prospects, are forward-looking and and may be subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the call. Please refer to the company's SEC filings for a list of associated risks, and we would also refer you to the company's website for more supporting industry information. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Sigma Labs Chairman, Mark Ruppert. Mark, the floor is yours.

Thank you, Chris, and good afternoon, everybody, and thanks for joining our call today. As many of you may know, this will be my last earnings call, and it was with great pleasure that we announced the promotion of Jacob Brunsberg to President and Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Labs. This was a desired outcome of a search that started over a year ago, and I'm very excited at the prospect of working with Jacob as I assume the Chairman's role. This move comes at a time that clearly marks the beginning of a new direction for the company. It's important to understand that Jacob was recruited specifically because of his background. He brings an OEM's perspective to Sigma and greatly broadens our understanding of what large manufacturers need to assure the highest level of trust in the quality and consistency of printed parts as they scale to hundreds of production systems. Jacob has set a plan in place that leverages Sigma's core competency removed significant barriers of entry for the company, as well as for end users, and has created a sense of urgency in developing relationships with OEMs, additive software companies, material providers, and post-processing technologies. I believe that all the above for the first time positioned Sigma to have our technology on thousands of printers. With that, I'll be glad to turn the call over to our new CEO of Sigma Labs, Jacob Brunsberg.