Traton SE

Dear ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the conference call for the three-month 2023 interim statement of Traton SE. At our customer's request, this conference will be recorded. As a reminder, all participants will be in the listen-only mode. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. If any participant has difficulty hearing the conference, please press star and zero on your telephone for operator assistance. May I now hand you over to Lars Korinth, head of IR of Traton, who will start the meeting today.

Thank you for that. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Traton first quarter 2023 conference call. And thank you all for joining us today. Before we start, let me first make you aware of the disclaimer. And of course, as always, you can find all relevant documents on our Q1 performance on our website, traton.com.ir. including the slides of today's presentation. Together with me today are Christian Levine, our CEO, and Michael Jackstein, who has appointed Trayton CFO and CHRO effective 1st of April. So welcome to the team, Michael. I'm also joined by Camilla Devone, Head of Corporate Relations. We will start with a presentation of the first quarter results and the updated 23 outlook. After that presentation, We look forward to answering your questions. With that, I hand it over to Christian.

Great. Thank you very much, Lars, and good morning to everyone out there. Good to have you with us again. Also from Mayan, before we start, very welcome, Michael, to the team. You're going to head up the areas of finance and human resources where you also have the business development function, all enabling functions that are super important to us during these times of big transformation. So really look forward to having you on the board, having you on board, and having you at my side working together with the rest of the executive board to shape the future of the Trayton group.