Mettler-Toledo International, Inc.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the quarterly earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in 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'll need to press star 1 on your telephone. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. And if you should require any further assistance, please press star 0. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker for today, Ms. Mary Finnegan. Thank you, ma'am. Please go ahead.

Thanks, Katherine, and good evening, everyone. I'm Mary Finnegan. I'm responsible for investor relations at Mettler Toledo and happy that you're joining us tonight. I'm joined on the call today with Olivier Filio, our CEO, and Shawn Videla, our chief financial officer. Let me cover just a couple administrative matters. This call is being webcast and is available for replay on our website. A copy of the press release and the presentation that we refer to on today's call is also available on our website. Let me summarize the Safe Harbor language which is outlined on page two of the presentation. Statements in this presentation which are not historical facts constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements. For a discussion of these risks and uncertainties, please see our most recent Form 10-K and other reports filed with the SEC from time to time. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the factors discussed under the caption, Factors Affecting Our Future Operating Results, and in the Business and Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations section of our filings. Just one other item. On today's call, we may use non-GAAP financial measures. More detailed information with respect to the use of and differences between the non-GAAP financial measure and the most directly comparable GAAP measure is provided in our Form 8-K. I will now turn the call over to Olivier.

Thank you, Mary, and good evening, everyone. I'm calling in from Switzerland tonight while Sean and Mary are in Columbus, Ohio. Patrick Kaltenbach is also joining the call with me from Switzerland and we are excited to have him on board. Patrick and I have had very productive onboarding sessions over the last few weeks and he most recently has begun to meet with the senior leadership team who is very happy to welcome him. Patrick, I will turn it to you as I know you want to make a few comments.