Belden Inc

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to this morning's Belden's Reports First Quarter 2026 results. Just a reminder, this call is being recorded. At this time, you are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your touchtone phone. If you are in the question queue and would like to withdraw your question, simply press star 2. I would now like to turn the call over to Erin Reddington.

Please go ahead, sir.

Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us for Belden's first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. With me today are Belden's President and CEO Ashish Chand and Executive Vice President and CFO Jeremy Parks. Ashish will provide an overview of our first quarter results before turning to a discussion on today's announcement that Belden has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ruckus Networks from Vistance Networks. Jeremy will discuss the financing aspects of the transaction and our immediate delevering plans. We issued press releases related to our earnings and this transaction announcement earlier this morning and have prepared slide decks for both announcements. These materials and a transcript of our prepared remarks are currently available online at investor.belden.com. Please note that the presentation used during today's call is the transaction announcement presentation. The regular earnings presentation is loaded to our website for your reference. Turning to slide two, I'd like to remind everyone that today's call will include forward-looking statements, which are subject to risk and uncertainties, as detailed in our press releases and most recent Form 10-K. We will also reference certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in the appendix to our presentation, and on our website. And now to Ashish.