SuRo Capital Corp.

Hello and welcome to Thoreau Capital's first quarter 2025 earnings call. My name is Melissa and I will be your coordinator for today's event. Please note this conference is being recorded and for the duration of the call, your lines will be on listen only. However, you will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the presentation. This can be done by pressing star followed by one on your keypad to register your question. If you require assistance at any point, please press star zero to be connected to an operator. I'd now like to turn the call over to Evan Schlossman, Principal. Please go ahead.

Thank you for joining us on today's call. I am joined by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Serocapital, Mark Klein, and Chief Financial Officer, Allison Green. Please note that a slide presentation corresponding to today's prepared remarks by management is available on our website at www.serocap.com under Investor Relations, Events, and Presentations. Today's call is being recorded and broadcast live on our website, www.surowcap.com. Replay information is included in our press release issued today. This call is the property of Surow Capital, and the unauthorized reproduction of this call in any form is strictly prohibited. I would also like to call your attention to customary disclosures in today's earnings press release regarding forward-looking information. Statements made in today's conference call and webcast may constitute forward-looking statements which relate to future events or our future performance or financial conditions. These statements are not guarantees of our future performance or future financial condition or results and involve a number of risks, estimates, and uncertainties, including the impact of any market volatility that may be detrimental to our business, our portfolio companies, our industry, and the global economy that could cause actual results to differ materially from the plans, intentions, and expectations reflected in or suggested by the forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including but not limited to those described from time to time in the company's filings with the SEC. Management does not undertake to update such forward-looking statements unless required to do so by law. To obtain copies of Sero Capital's latest SEC filings, please visit our website at www.serocap.com or the SEC's website at sec.gov. Now, I would like to turn the call over to Mark Lyons.

Thank you, Evan.