EnerSys

Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. And welcome to the end of the second quarter 2022 conference call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press the start and the one key on your touch-tone telephone. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. If you recall all participants, please press start and zero. I would now like to end the conference over to your speaker host today, to Mr. David Schaefer, President and CEO. Please go ahead, sir.

Thanks, Livia. Good morning, and thank you for joining us for our second quarter fiscal 2022 earnings call. On the call with me this morning is Mike Schmidlein, our Chief Financial Officer, and Andrea Funk, our Vice President of Finance of the Americas. Before we get started, I would like to wish everybody a happy Veterans Day. Last evening, we posted slides on our website that we will be referencing during the call this morning. If you didn't get a chance to see this information, you can go to the webcast tab in the investor section of our website at www.enersys.com. I'm going to ask Mike to cover information regarding forward-looking statements.

Thank you, Dave, and good morning to everyone. As a reminder, we will be presenting certain forward-looking statements on this call that are based on management's current expectations and views regarding future events and operating performance and are subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances. Our actual results may differ materially from the forward-looking statements for a number of reasons. Our forward-looking statements are applicable only as of the date of this presentation. For a list of factors which could affect our future results, including our earnings estimates, see forward-looking statements included in Item 2, Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation. Set forth in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 3, 2021, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, we will also be presenting certain non-GAAP financial measures, particularly concerning our adjusted consolidated operating earnings performance. and our adjusted diluted earnings per share, which excludes certain highlighted items. For an explanation of the differences between comparable GAAP financial information and the non-GAAP information, please see our company's Form 8K, which includes our press release dated November 10, 2021, which is located on our website at www.enersys.com. Now let me turn it back to you, Dave.