ESCO Technologies Inc.

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the fourth quarter 2022 ESCO, excuse me, Technologies Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are on a 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 star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message, advising your hand is raised. Today's call is being recorded. On the call today, we have Vic Ritchie, Chairman and CEO, Chris Tucker, Senior Vice President and CFO, and Brian Saylor, President Utilities Solutions Group. And now I would like to turn the conference over to your first speaker today, Kate Lowry, Vice President of Investor Relations. Kate, you may now have the floor.

Thank you. Statements made during this call, which are not strictly historical, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the federal securities laws. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions, and actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements due to risks and uncertainties that exist in the company's operations and business environment, including, but not limited to, the risk factors referenced in the company's press release issued today, which will be included as an exhibit to the company's Form 8K to be filed. We undertake no duty to update or revise any forward-looking statements except as may be required by applicable laws or regulations. In addition, during this call, the company may discuss some non-GAAP financial measures in describing the company's operating results. A reconciliation of these measures to their most comparable GAAP measures can be found in the press release issued today and found on the company's website at www.estotechnologies.com under the link Investor Relations. Now I'll turn the call over to Vic.

Thanks, Kate, and thank everyone for joining today's call. We've got a lot to cover today, but I want to start off by introducing everybody to Brian Saylor. By now, you've all seen a press release from September 12th and also the commentary from the release we issued today. Brian's about to take over as CEO on January 1st and is joining us on today's call. I really feel good about our transition plan. And we thought this call would be a good chance for Brian to say a few words and start to engage in a quarterly earnings process. Well, let me turn it over to Brian for a brief introduction.