Alejandro Scannapieco
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Thank you, Martín. Good afternoon everyone. I’m really excited to be here sharing with you our fourth quarter and full year 2014 financial results. As Martín mentioned, 2014 was a strong and record year as we grew revenues to $199.6 million, 26.1% above 2013. This strong growth was primarily driven by deeper penetration in our top accounts as it has been the case historically. Our largest customer grew 71.8% year-on-year and our top 10 accounts increased 39.5% compared to 2013. This is a clear indicator of our ability to grow our largest customer by delivering digital mobile and our analytic process on other emerging technologies. On top of that, a number of key additions to the portfolio, including among others two big financial institutions, a couple of large technology company, one energy producer, one airline and one healthcare company contributed to this robust growth in revenues. Finally, 87.4% of 2014 revenues was generated from customers that were already working with us in 2015, a trend that repeats over time as we dedicate time and resources to form our existing customer base. For 2014, our top one customer represented 8.7% of total revenue, top five customers represent 27.8% and top 10 customers represented 43.9% of revenues compared to 6.4%, 25.4% and 29.7% of revenues respectively for 2013. We believe that our portfolio is well diversified for a company of our size with our key customers that would drive sustainable growth over the next five years. Compared to 2013, average revenue per top five customers increased 38% to $11.1 million on average revenue. Our top 10 customers increased 39.5% to $8.8 million. We are very excited that our top customers are receiving the value that we provide and are increasing the size of their business and contract land with that. This reinforces our value proposition and give us a robust based to grow from 2015 and onwards. During 2014, 81.7% of our customers were in North America, U.S. the top country, 12.4% in Latin America, Chile our top country and 5.9% were in Europe, U.K. top country. Our top three industry verticals for 2014 were technology and telecommunications with 23.5% of revenues, media and entertainment were 22.6% of revenues and professional services were 16.4% of revenues. As you can see, we’re not concentrating in a particular industry and we remain pretty much balanced across different verticals. During 2014, 92.4% of our revenues were denominated in U.S. dollars depicting very limited exposure to FX with placements on our topline. As written in our press release, our fourth quarter revenue increased to $55.1 million, which imply a 19.2% growth year-over-year despite having two less working days than in Q4 2013. Growth has been driven by strong traction of key customers and some great wins in technology and telecommunications, energy and healthcare vertical. Moving down in our P&L, adjusted gross profit for the year was also record and increased to $81.7 million, 41% adjusted gross margin, a growth of 170 basis points year-over-year that was mainly driven by two factors, first increasing value added from our studios that translate into high revenue per head and second and more efficient organization after the internal restructuring of the business that we perform late in 2013. Adjusted gross profit for the quarter was $21.9 million, 39.7% adjusted gross margin, an increase of 50 basis points year-over-year and a decrease of 130 basis points versus the third quarter of 2014. Increase versus last year is primarily explained by revenue per head growth while the decrease versus Q3 2014 is explained by additional investments on our delivery structure to enhance firming capabilities, the lower number of working days combined with year end cost days and seasonal wage increases. During Q4, we added 207 IT professionals, our largest quarterly headcount increase in 2014 and 24% above Q3 net additions, so a strong traction on the business side. Adjusted net income for the year was $25.9 million, 13% adjusted net income margin, an increase of $11.3 million or 380 basis points versus 2013. Adjusted net profit for the year was a boost by a 550 basis point reduction in SG&A expenses. Make sure that’s part of the offset, combined with a strong gross margin. During 2014, we continued investing heavily in sales and marketing, closing the year with 36 sales employees, a 20% increase versus December 2013. At the same time, the rest of the G&A areas gained efficiencies and start diluting as a percentage of revenue as most of the significant investment there was done prior to the IPO. Adjusted net income for the fourth quarter was $8.1 million, 14.8% adjusted net income margin, another robust result in the bottom line. Adjusted diluted EPS for the year was $0.81 based on 31.9 million average diluted shares for the year, an increase of 59% compared to $0.51 from 2013. Adjusted diluted EPS for the quarter was $0.24 based on 34.3 million average diluted shares for the quarter, compared to negative $0.12 for Q4 2013. As you may recall, Q4 2013 EPS was impacted by a $9.6 million negative allowance related to some fiscal credits that were being irrecoverable at that time. Now, let’s look at our balance sheet. As you know, we executed our IPO in July 2014 and that combined with our cash generation, contributed to reinforce our cash balance position. Cash and investments as of December 31, 2014 increased to $62.2 million, compared to $26.7 million as of December 31, 2013. And borrowings decreased to $1.3 million after repaying $10.5 million of our working capital facility line, leaving Globant with almost no financial debt. Total shares outstanding as of the end of 2014 were at 33.6 million common shares. We finished the year with 3,775 Globers, 3,424 of which were IT professional. Attrition in the last 12 months ending December 31 was 20.2%, pretty consistent with the last three years and 200 basis points lower than attrition as of December 31, 2013, which was 22.2%. Before we move into the Q&A session of the call, I would like to share our outlook for Q1 2015 and for the full year ending December 31, 2015. We expect to continue delivering a strong revenue growth and profitability, as we start seeing the case in many years on our commitment when we made the IPO. We also expect to continue making strategic investments into the business. Based on current visibility, we expect revenue for 2015 to be between $237 million and $245 million, implying 20.7% year-over-year increase at the midpoint of the range. In terms of margins and as Martín mentioned before, our 2014 gross margin was one of our highest at 41% and 170 basis points over 2013. For 2015, we expect gross margins to be slightly below 2014 levels, due to the additional investments in our operations on some FX headwinds, which we seek to offset at the net income slash EPS level by continuing SG&A dilution and the continuity of our current FX hedge strategy through the gain from foreign operations. Diluted EPS for the year is expected to be in the range of $0.85 to $0.93, assuming 34.8 million average diluted shares outstanding for the full year. Before we move into our Q1 guidance, let me remind you that historically our year contains a seasonal pattern. With Q1 being our softer quarter, given that it has the lowest number of working days, combined with the most important holiday season in Latin America. As such, both topline and margins tend to be lower in Q1. For the first quarter, we expect revenues to be between $51 million and $53 million, 20.6% year-on-year growth at the midpoint of the range. Adjusted diluted EPS is expected to be in the range of $0.14 to $0.18, assuming 34.5 million average diluted shares outstanding for the quarter. With that let me hand over to Martín for closing remarks.
Martín Migoya: Thank you, Alex. So thanks everyone for participating on the call and for your continued coverage and support. So let’s please move now to the Q&A section of the call. Operator, can you please queue the questions? Thank you very much.