Jumia Technologies AG

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Jumia's results conference call for the third quarter of 2022. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After management's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. I would now like to turn the call over to Safa Demir, Head of Investor Relations for Jumia. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for our 3rd Quarter 2022 Earnings Call. With us today are Francis Dufay, Acting CEO of Junia, and Antoine Meillier-Miseret, Executive Vice President, Finance and Operations. As previously announced, a new Management Board and Acting CEO have been appointed. while Jérémy Odara and Sacha Poignonek have stepped down from their co-CEO roles. The supervisory board has appointed Francis and Antoine as members of the company's management board. Francis, our acting CEO, has been with the company since 2014 and has held multiple senior leadership roles, including CEO of Ivory Coast. He was recently Executive Vice President Africa with responsibility for the group e-commerce business across Africa. Francis has a track record of successfully scaling e-commerce operations in Africa with a strong focus on profitability. He has been based in Ivory Coast since 2014 and is an Ivory National. He brings a deep understanding of our business and the markets that we operate in. Antoine, whom you know, was previously Group CFO and has now been elevated to Executive Vice President, Finance and Operations. Antoine has been with Jumia for over six years and plays a very important role in the organization. His expanded areas of responsibility will no doubt benefit from his expertise and deep knowledge of the business. Let me now cover the deep harbor. We would like to remind you that our discussions today will include forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Moreover, these forward-looking statements may speak only to our expectations as of today. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise these statements. For a discussion of some of the risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from the forward-looking statements expressed today, please see the risk factors section of our annual report on Form 20-F, as published on April 29, 2022, as well as our other submissions with the SEC. In addition, on this call, we will refer to certain financial measures not reported in accordance with IFRS. You can find reconfigurations of these non-IFRS financial measures to the corresponding IFRS financial measures in our earnings spread release, which is available on our investor relations website.

With that, I hand over to Tom.