Greetings. Welcome to the CryoLife Fourth Quarter and Year End 2012 Financial Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the following presentation. (Operator instructions). As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host Steve Anderson, President and CEO of CryoLife. Thank you, Mr. Anderson, you may begin.

Good morning everyone. And welcome to CryoLife's 2012 Year End Conference Call. This is Steve Anderson, CryoLife's CEO, and with me today is Ashley Lee, CryoLife's Executive Vice President, COO and CFO; and David Fronk, CryoLife's Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance. This morning, we released our year end and fourth quarter financial report. I am pleased to announce that we reported record fourth quarter revenues of $32.8 million and earnings of $2.1 million. The fourth quarter revenues reflect an 8% increase over 2011 and the earnings showed a 12% increase over the previous year's quarter. We also reported record annual revenues of $131.7 million, an increase of 10% over 2012. Earnings were $7.9 million, an increase of 8%. During the quarter, we also paid a $0.025 dividend to share holders. The agenda for the call today is as follows. Ashley will discuss the year-end financial performance in detail. Then Dave will discuss our recent FDA inspection. I will discuss the build out of our new manufacturing space at Georgia Tech. I will discuss the finial integration of the HeRO Graft manufacturing and the timetable for the HeRO CE Mark in Europe. I will also discuss the status of the IDE, PMA for PerClot, as well as the timetable for beginning our human clinical trials. I will discuss additional corporate development activities and initiatives that we are working on. After my comments Ashley will return to give you financial and earnings guidance for 2013. At this time Ashley will comment about today's press release.

Thanks Steve. To comply with the Safe Harbor requirements of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, I would like make the following statement. Comments made in this call that look forward in time involve risk and uncertainties and are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements include the statements made as to the company's or management's intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations or predictions of the future including the guidance for 2012 that I will provide in a moment. Additional information concerning risk and uncertainties that may impact these forward-looking statements is contained from time to time in the company's SEC filings including the Risk Factors section of our previously filed Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, and our subsequently filed Form 10-Qs during 2012, our Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2012, which we expect to file shortly, and in the press release that went out this morning. A reconciliation of certain non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP measures is contained in our press release, a copy of which is located in the investor section of our website. This morning we reported our results for the fourth quarter and full-year of 2012. We achieved record fourth quarter and annul revenues of $32.8 million and $131.7 million respectively, driven by year-over-year increases in most lines of business and the recent acquisition of Hemosphere. Our fourth quarter and annual earnings per share totaled $0.07 and $0.28 respectively. The following factors influenced our revenue performance. For the fourth quarter total product revenues increased 13% compared to the prior year. Worldwide BioGlue revenues were up 7% for fourth quarter. This was driven by 4% volume increase primarily in Europe. PerClot Sales increased 63% to $1 million for the…

As we previously made public with FDA conducted a routine scheduled inspection of our facilities, conducted over a four week period last September and October. The inspection was not the direct result from any adverse event reports about our tissues or products. At the conclusion of the inspection, we received a Form 483 list of observations. We took their concern seriously. We initiated significant efforts to address the FDA's observations and provided three written responses to the FDA detailing our corrective action plans. As we also previously disclosed, on January 30th we received a warning letter from the FDA. The warning letter relates to certain observation from the 483 that the FDA believes were either inadequately addressed by our responses or for which FDA required further information to fully assess our corrective actions. The concerns in the warning letter were for a subset of the 483 observation. A majority of the corrective actions detailed in our earlier responses to the 483 appear to have been adequately addressed from the initial observations. We continue to take this matter seriously and intend to fully respond to the FDA's concerns. Specific concerns addressed by the FDA and warning letter include ensuring that all complaint investigations are adequately conducted, assuring that management reviews the company's quality system on a regular and sufficient basis, preventing the reoccurrence of certain deficiencies noted in personnel training, providing additional information describing changes in the company's disinfectant system, as well as additional information concerning its environmental monitoring program, and lastly, ensuring that environmental trending reports are generated pursuant to company's procedures. We have had several communications with our local FDA district office to discuss the warning letter concerns, as well as our proposed corrective actions. These discussions have been very constructive. We intent to provide our response to FDA before the end of next week. Once we have completed the work necessary to address the FDA's concerns we will request a follow-up inspection during with the FDA will verify our work is sufficient to address their concerns. Steve?

During September of 2012, we leased an additional 9,000 square feet of clean room and laboratory space and a building on the campus of Georgia Tech. The building had previously been occupied by a startup pharmaceutical company that went out of business. The facility's clean room space is ideal for the manufacture of the HeRO Graft that we acquired last May in our acquisition of Hemosphere. The transfer of the HeRO Graft manufacturing operations from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, to the facility of Georgia Tech is nearing completion. Once final, the manufacturing facility on Eden Prairie, Minnesota will be closed. We are also using this newly leased space for one of the steps in the manufacture of PerClot, our powdered hemostatic agent. We are presently in talks to lease another 10,000 square feet in the same building. With the current lease, we now occupy 220,000 square feet of office, laboratory and manufacturing space in the Metro Atlanta area. 2012 sales of the HeRO Graft since the acquisition on May 17, 2012 were $3.1 million. Our sales forecast for the HeRO Graft during 2013 is for sales between $6 million and $7 million. We estimate the total annual U.S. market for the HeRO Graft to be about 352,000 units. That equates to a $124 million opportunity in the U.S. Management believes that the European market opportunity for the HeRO Graft is approximately $30 million. We are expecting CE Mark approval for the HeRO Graft late in the first quarter or early in the second quarter of 2013. The HeRO Graft has gross margins in the mid 60 range. We are planning additional post market clinical studies in 2013 to further demonstrate the clinical utility of the HeRO Graft. As this, we are still addressing questions from the FDA about the -- our…

We are issuing our initial financial guidance for the full year of 2013. We expect total revenues to be between $139 and $143 million. This represents annual total revenue growth of between 6% and 9%. We expect tissue processing revenues to increase in the low to mid single digits on a percentage basis for the full year of 2013 compared to 2012. Revenues from our higher margin product segment are expected to grow between 9% and 13% for the full year of 2013. The product revenue guidance includes expectations for BioGlue and BioFoam revenues to increase in the mid single digits on a percentage basis in 2013 compared to 2012, and PerClot revenues to be between $3.5 and $4million. We expect HeRO Graft revenues to be between $6 million and $7 million in 2013. We expect revenues from TMR Technologies to be between $8.5 million and $9 million in 2013. Turning to expenses, R&D expenses are expected to be between $11 million and $12 million in 2013 primarily as a result of our investments in our US clinical trials for PerClot. We believe that the medical device excise tax for 2013 will approximate a little over $1 million. We expect the effective income tax rate for the full year of 2013 to be in the mid 30% range. We will recognize the full benefit of the 2012 R&D tax credit which was passed in early 2013 in the first quarter of 2013. We will recognize the 2013 R&D tax credit ratably throughout the year. We expect earnings per share for the full year 2013 of between $0.25 and $0.28. Finally, we believe we are continuing to successfully execute on our strategy of positioning the company for accelerated revenue and earnings growth by expanding our addressable market opportunities through internal R&D…

At this time, we will open up the call for questions.

Thank you. We will be now conducting a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions). Thank you. Our first question is from the line of Tom Gunderson of Piper Jaffray. Please proceed with your question

So a little bit on PerClot, the EPS for ‘13 is a little lower than what we are expecting and a big part of that is in the clinical trial cost that you are doing for PerClot. That’s some would call that expense some would call that investment. If we look at it, Steve, from an investment standpoint, what’s the rollout if this starts sometime in ‘14, does it need more investment, we need more sales guys? And then how do you perceive the payback for this investment that’s being made in PerClot?

We probably will have more sales people because the number of specialties that we are addressing is outside the bandwidth of our present sales forces which are focused on cardiovascular and vascular surgeons primarily. So, I would expect that we would add specialists, sales specialist into the various regions around the country, as far as our sales strategy would go. Do you want to comment about the investment and stuff like that, Ashley?

No, just a couple of comments overall, Tom. For we think from this point going forward is probably going to take another $4 million to $5 million to complete the trial and that’s really kind of baked into our guidance right now. As far as return, when we look at business development opportunities we have target IRR that we like to achieve on any endeavor that we enter into. We don't want to get to specific about you know what are targets are, but this particular technology fit well within our criteria. And we thought that when we entered into the transaction and we continue to believe that this is a very attractive opportunity to grow the company going forward.

And then a little bit related but not probably not, the warning letter comes from the enforcement side. The IDE approval comes from the evaluation side. Is there any hint from any of the FDA people that you're talking to that IDE would be slowed until the warning letter is cleared up?

We have not gotten any indication that that would be the case at all, and again we're clearly looking at doing an investigational device exemption to allow the clinical testing. So, I think we're pretty comfortable that there should be no impact with regards to the warning letter on any investigational trial that we want to have going forward. We're also are pretty comfortable that in the dialogues that we have been having with the Agency that we are going to get to this matter resolved very quickly. We've had a series of conversations with the Agency over the last week and it's been very productive and they've been very pleased with the corrective actions that we are proposing to take in place, so we're very optimistic with regards to that aspect of it resolved and resolved quickly.

And then just one quick detail and I'll get back in queue, and that is on the 400 patients that you've talked about, approximately how many sites are you thinking of enrolling?

Up to around a dozen sites.

Our next question is from the line of Jeffery Cohen of Ladenburg Thalmann. Please proceed with your question.

Thanks for taking my questions. I apologize in advance if I somewhat repetitive. So firstly I guess the question for, was that David on the call, on the 483 timing. I think you earmarked the deadline that we hear something back. Is that going to be Friday the 22nd or Monday the 25th, should you be filing an 8-K on or before that date?

Actually that date is our due date to respond to the warning letter. The 15 business days that were outlined to respond in the warning letter is on the 21st of this month. So that's how our response to the warning letter.

Okay. So that would be on the 21st. So, there would be no 8-K, and is your deadline for the agency to get back to you from your response?

No, there is not.

Okay. What's the current employee count approximately of the company?

We were showing about 475 to 480 somewhere in that neighborhood.

Okay, so I'm sorry if this is repetitive. On per clock timing for the trial to wrap up and for you to get data or data submission, what kind of ball park timing are you looking at?

Since there are so many specialties involved, it's going to be relatively easy for us to get the complete enrollment done quickly, and I would think that we would -- and with only a one month follow-up period that they've already agreed to I'm expecting that we will make our submission towards the end of this year.

On the gross margin, I guess for Ashley, 64.5%. Do you think that ball park is good 2013?

I expect margins to remain relatively flat, right around the 64% range. Understanding that as we continue to drive sales and some of these higher margin product lines that we believe over the next few years that we would expect gross margins to increase. But for 2013, probably relatively flat.

And on the R&D side, the higher expenses, looks like a million or million change, is that solely attributable to the PerClot R&D aspect?

We're guiding to between $11 million and $12 million which is significantly above where we exited 2012, and the majority of that is due to the PerClot clinical trial, although we have other projects that we continue to work on also.

And it looks like 69% overall growth rate is your guidance?

That's our initial top line guidance.

Okay, and growth rate specific to the preservation service side cardiovascular tissue is what other percentage basis?

Low single to mid-single digits on a percentage basis.

And you had talked about doing a couple of training sessions for our ESRDE and Cardiac?

Yeah

Can you repeat the timing of that spring or fall of 2013?

(inaudible) end-stage renal disease in the HeRO Graft is schedule for April of 2013, and then the fellows program for cardiovascular fellows will be in September or October of 2013.

Our next question is from the line of Matt Dolan of Roth Capital Partners. Please proceed with your question.

So, I want a follow-up on the warning letter. Another tissue processing company is dealing with an FDA warning letter as well, and it is affecting their revenue outlook this year as certain facilities or sites are unable to order from a vendor that has an outstanding warning letter. So, is this an issue that you could possibly face or if not why are you confident that this will not have material financial impact?

Matt, this is Ashley, it is always possible that it could have an effect on our business. With that being said, for the month of January this year we had an all-time monthly revenue record and our sales so far in February continue to be very strong. I think that there are a couple things about some of our product lines that hopefully will kind of protect them from any potential issues related to the warning letter. First of all, we have the only decellularized heart valve in the world. We have the only fully subcutaneous product that provides patients in end-stage renal disease to continue on long-term dialysis access. We have some other unique products too. So, we think that just due to the nature of our products that that will hopefully provide us some protection there too. But again, as of today, we are not really seeing any pushback at all from customers and our sales continue to be very strong so far in 2013.

I specifically asked sales management yesterday regarding the feedback from the field, was there any adverse or were there any adverse comments regarding the letter, and the answer of that was we have not had a single account raised that question.

In terms of the earnings guidance maybe too well components. One is how big is the medical device tax or what part of your business is that hitting? And then secondly, does the earnings guidance include the tax credit or does it assume an adjusted 35% for the year?

The medical device tax, we expect to be somewhere a little more than a $1 million, so that is already back into our guidance. The income taxes, we believe the R&D tax credit that we spoke about will place us in the mid 30% range, so that is included also in our guidance. Was another question that (inaudible).

No, that was it. But where are you booking the device tax?

It is in our SG&A.

Okay. All right. And then, on the use of cash side in equation, maybe first you could clarify what the business development charge was in the fourth quarter? And then I have a follow-up.

The business development charges were mostly integration related charges in the fourth quarter. We held some large events focused on training for the HeRO Graft, and we also have a duplicate facility in Minneapolis that we were carrying in the fourth quarter. So that was predominantly the nature of the business development/integration charges.

And maybe if you can just walk through your cash usage strategy, you have done now dividends, you are adding to the buyback and yet you have some business development efforts that appear to be ongoing and continue to evaluate other acquisition opportunities. What is the kind of message that you would like to have out there as it relates to your overall strategy, not spend -- not using too much on dividends and buyback to be able to have enough fire power to execute on acquisition, it just seems that you are doing a little of everything?

Well, first of all, if you look at 2012, we generated between $0.55 and $0.60 in free cash flow per share. The current dividend that we are paying is $0.10 per share. So, we are committed to and we continue to expect to pay the dividend going forward, so we are committed to that. And the other two primary sources of cash are going to be potential business development work and potential share repurchases, and both of those are really going to be kind of dictated due to market conditions and what opportunities that we have. So, again, we do not really have an allocation of the remaining cash that we would like to devote to share repurchases or business development; its really just going to be opportunity driven and market condition driven.

Our next question is coming from the line of Raymond Myers of Benchmark Company. Please proceed with your question.

First question, I want to ask about the PerClot revenue guidance. If you look at the PerClot revenue for the fourth quarter and annualize it, you get to the top range of your guidance which is $4 million already. What is happening with PerClot and why my guidance not be higher?

In the fourth quarter we received one very large order from an individual hospital in new a market, in Russia that was roughly a $200,000 order. And we think that that event in itself proves how excited certain customers are about the clinical utility of PerClot. We believe that we’re going to be able to sequentially grow our business throughout 2013, and if we need to adjust our guidance at some point during the year then we will do so, but we think it’s appropriate based on circumstances now.

And remind me actually why was the fourth quarter tax rate so low?

We routinely re-evaluate our net operating losses, and during the fourth quarter we determined that there was some state net operating losses that we thought that we were going to be able to utilize that whereas in the past we didn’t think that we were going to be able to utilize them. So that resulted in a tax benefit in the fourth quarter.

Is that something that could be recurring or no?

We still have some state net operating losses that still have not been recognized but it’s very difficult to predict the utilization of those, again we have to go through this process periodically. And there’s a chance that we could see some of them like this occur in the future, but as of right now we don’t foresee that.

In the 2012 federal research and development tax credits, were those recognized in Q4 or will they be recognized in Q1?

The 2012 federal R&D tax credit will be recognized in the first quarter of 2013. The 2013 federal R&D tax credits will be recognized ratably throughout the year, so that would imply that the first quarter tax rate will probably be lower than the remaining three quarters.

And about how much is that tax credit?

If I recall correctly, Ray, it’s around $300,000 roughly. It might be a little bit more than that but that’s a rough estimate.

And finally, maybe through Steve or David, obviously the PerClot clinical trial is a very important one for CryoLife. What gives us confidence that you can actually start the trial and finish it by the end of this year as your guidance now suggests?

I think the indications for surgery and the subset of clinical uses that we have are the primary drivers for that. We don’t have any esoteric procedures that we were doing a dozen years ago we were looking at BioGlue and we were focusing on aortic dissection, those don’t happen and frequently these are very high volume procedures. So I think we have a fair amount of confidence with regard to the fact that procedure volume is such that it will allow a rapid enrolment process.

In the past there were some very specific issues, questions that you were going back and forth trying to hammer out with the agency? Is it fair to say that those have been resolved or not?

There are a few more that we are working through but I think we’re really in a position to come to agreement with the agency’s requests are going to be so. I think the next submission that we have though I can’t guarantee it would be and out now of 100% approval, I think we’re going to be very, very, very close to it because again I think we’re in a position that we understand what their requests are, what their needs are and will be in a position to fulfill those.

Another important factor A was that in one of the recent communications that we got from them it appears that they have agreed to a one-month follow-up period for the patients, and that was kind of that issue whether it was going to be two, three, or even longer, much longer but it appears that they have agreed to one month which we think will save us some time on the backend.

And then finally the control group is what? Hemostat or standard care or whether it’s a control?

Another powdered hemostat that’s on the market presently.

And are you seeking equivalence to that?

Yeah. The study design is a non-inferiority trial, that is the standard that people do. So that’s all we’re establishing our benchmark on as a non-inferiority goal.

Our next question is from the line of Joe Munda of Sidoti & Co. Please proceed with your question. Joe Munda - Sidoti & Co: Thank for you for taking my questions, a lot of them have been answered already, but real quick I think somebody touched on the size of the employees of the company, I was wondering what’s the size of the sales force based on the two businesses the product side and then the human tissue preservation?

We have about 58-60 sales reps and that would include field management. Joe Munda - Sidoti & Co: Okay. And that’s for all products or is that broken out by the two segments or is it combined?

That’s the combined number. Joe Munda - Sidoti & Co: Okay.

That is domestic. We also have direct sales people on the ground in Europe too. Joe Munda - Sidoti & Co: Okay.

We have roughly 12 to 15 there. Joe Munda - Sidoti & Co: Yeah, I just wanted to get a current number. Okay. And my second question, Ashley, I know lot of people are concentrating on PerClot but in your guidance you talked about vascular tissue growing at a lower rate, I mean, it grew 2% year-over-year. I was just wondering if you could give us some color on that segment because it seems to be your slowest growing segment, and what are your plans for that segment going forward?

We’ve stated in the past that we believe the tissue processing business as a whole is a low to mid-single digit grower going forward. So that’s really kind of our expectation of that business as we move forward. In any given year, we could do better than that or we might do a little bit worse than that, but on average we think that these businesses are low to mid-single digit growers. Joe Munda - Sidoti & Co: Yeah, I was just wondering because I cover another company in the space but not in the tissue space, more on the medical device space, and they really had a positive outlook because the baby boomers and the amount of patients that would be eligible for vascular procedures. Do you think that’s going to change your outlook maybe in 2014 or do you still consistently see it as a low to mid-single digit grower?

Shifting demographics could always help our business. A lot of the business development activities that we have been focused on recently have been targeted at the growing baby boomer population especially the HeRO Graft, so they certainly are very attractive markets. The guidance that we’ve given so far is what we currently believe, but again if demographics change and things change in the future we could be revising our outlook on our growth opportunities going forward for the cardiac and vascular tissue business. Joe Munda - Sidoti & Co: Yeah. I mean, I guess, can I put in an another way, I mean, I saw you guys, the Cardiogenesis -- is there an acquisition out there that you think could help you boost the growth of that segment?

We are currently looking at some products to put around the HeRO Graft and that would relate to AV access because of all the people that are going to be on them going on dialysis. One thing, I don’t disagree with your other company’s analysis of the baby boomer impact. I do agree with that, it’s just hard for us to forecast that. Joe Munda - Sidoti & Co: Yeah.

One thing I can say about the acquisition of the HeRO Graft is that we are seeing vascular surgeons that we’ve never been able to see in the past and people that we’ve never had a chance to talk to about our preserved vascular tissues. And so, there is a very good chance that our guidance for that product line is conservative because as the HeRO Graft gets more and more acceptance I would think that it would sort of pull through our vascular tissues. And synthetic vascular grafts don’t work well below the knee. Our tissues do very well work below the knee and they have valves in them because they’re veins usually. And our limb salvage rate is very good in comparison to a synthetic graft that would be used below the knee. So, our forecast is conservative I think. We’ll just have to wait as we move through the year to see what the true impact is of our acquisition of the HeRO Graft.

There are no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the floor back to management for closing comments.

Well, we’ve enjoyed the conference call today and we look forward to talking with you next quarter.