Michael Sklansky
Management
Thank you, Emily. We would like to remind all listeners that during this call, non-GAAP financial measures will be discussed. A reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures is included in the earnings release, which is available on the Investors Section of the company's website. An audio replay of this call will also be archived there. Please also be advised, that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements. These statements are not historical facts, but rather are based on the company's current expectations and beliefs. For a discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ, please refer to the Risk Factors described. I would now like to turn the call over to Alex Mashinsky, Chief Executive Officer. Alex Mashinsky Thanks, Michael, and thanks everyone for joining us in today’s call. I’m excited to speak with you today about our successful Q3 and strong outlook in leading Novatel through this transitional phase. We continue to leverage our technology, talent, relationship, as we take direct near term actions to unlock the value identified by our new management team and new investors. On our previous earnings call, I outlined what I believe are three of the key drivers to a successful turnaround at Novatel: bringing the business towards peer level margins, leveraging our strong MiFi brand and reducing customer concentration. We have made significant progress in executing on the first two drivers and we initiate actions to deliver on reducing customer concentration. During the third quarter, we executed against our goal of maintaining improvement via supply chain management, engineering enhancements and better product mix. These drivers should continue to support improved margins as we work towards reaching 30% gross margin by the end of 2015. Historically, the company has not leveraged its MiFi brand which has strong customer recognition worldwide due to its longstanding leading edge technology, top-tiered distribution and global shipments of our 8 million devices. The recent launch of our direct-to-consumer website, getmifi.com, and targeted domestic and international marketing efforts are all aimed at leveraging the strong brand recognition. Improved branding, marketing and direct-to-consumer efforts are also the key to reducing customer concentration. For instance, we have begun to leverage the MiFi brand to create Internet of Things or IoT solutions outside of traditional channels. As these initiatives ramp and we win additional customers we expect to reduce customer concentration through 2015. I was originally appointed as a permanent CEO of Novatel, after becoming aspired by the future potential for the company during my interim phase. I intend to leverage the skills and capabilities of the talented team at Novatel to become the leader in the industry. I look forward to sharing our continued progress on many more earnings calls to come. On that note, looking forward, we are focused on securing defensible high margin opportunities by integrating compelling applications, services and software into our award-winning IoT and MiFi devices. To this end over the past three months, we have added six customers to our pipeline with whom we’re integrating solutions that offer both hardware and services. We went through a rationalization and restructuring period with regarding to our MiFi Mobile Hotspot Broadband business over the past three quarters and believe the transition process is now complete. We are pleased with the early results of our new strategy which involves winning strategic and profitable slots at the domestic carriers and leveraging these design wins into ancillary mobile computing and M2M products. For instance, we now have three IoT products that are based on the MiFi technology. We believe that our direct-to-consumer initiative will also help to capture the long-end of the tail of each MiFi product. Following extensive conversations with domestic and global carriers, I’m confident that our MiFi broadband products are on path towards consistent, more profitable growth. The MiFi 6620 highlights the unparalleled innovation of our engineering team. With data rates of up to 150 megabits per second and the ability to securely connect 15 concurrent clients to the XLTE network for up to 20 hours of use on a single battery charge. And initial global sales momentum shows that customers continue to find value in our MiFis. On the IoT front, we have over 100 active global customers, our solutions pans virtually every identified IoT growth segment, our IoT efforts are focused within five key verticals: security, connected home, consumer telematics, commercial telematics and telemetry. We have a strategy in place to become the leader within each of these verticals. The timing of our progress within each of these verticals will be staggered as the high growth period of each vertical will vary. Our recent restructuring efforts in M2M have focused on, one, ramping new growth products such as MiFi powered SA 2100 for applications such as Fixed Telemetry, Fleet Management, Asset Tracking, and Connected Car. Two, selling integrated solution versus modules. And three, moving from an indirect to direct sales models. The move to a direct sales model supports our integrated solution and enhance customer relationships. It also had a positive benefit of increasing cross-selling between the IoT and MiFi products. For instance, our IoT sales team has identified new MiFi opportunities in Europe, Latin America, Mexico and South America. I’ll turn now to an update on the mobile computing and M2M segment results for the third quarter. MiFi revenue grew 27% sequentially in the third quarter, driven by the successful launch of the new Verizon MiFi in September. Our diversification with this key partner has improved as we currently occupy four slots inside the Verizon ecosystem and are scheduled to launch our fifth slot early next year. This is the most slots the company has ever had with Verizon. The 4G LTE/XLTE MiFi 6620 is our first corrugation [ph] product and was one of the first two devices globally to integrate QUALCOMM MDM9625 chipset, enabling this MiFi to work in over 200 countries. To this point, a derivative of the MiFi 6620 has been selected by international Tier 1 carrier for launch in early 2015, and we are currently working with other global carries on products based of this platform. Our MiFi 5510 continues to ship in volume, and we expect shipments through the end of this year in both direct and indirect channels. During the quarter, the 5510 helped Novatel expand distribution to alternative non-carrier channels. Over the next few quarters, we see strong demand and continued increase in shipments to indirect channel. MiFi added three new customer wins this quarter and three products evaluations are underway with various customers. Turning to our M2M performance in Q3, our non-GAAP gross margin for M2M products improved to 27.3%. Our revenues were flat sequentially due to the end of life legacy low-margin business, however, the quality of our M2M revenues improved quite significantly and a further indication of our turnaround efforts. Despite the substantial margin improvement, we continue to experience below industry average M2M margins due to several products containing legacy 2G chipsets. We believe this portfolio transition will be complete by the early part of next year, which would help improve our 2015 markets. M2M added three new customers during the quarter, including Quindell, Himax and SYNNEX, and nine product evaluations are underway with various customers. During the third quarter, we began to bear the fruits of our focused effort on the Telemetry vertical. With Telemetry, we are working with remote security solutions to provide remote video surveillance for high value assets on location such as Powergrid substations, distribution centers and office buildings. We have partnered with FleetZOOM to integrate remote equipment monitoring solution that utilizes cellular telemetry. We are also working with key partners to enable solutions that prevent security breaches at large retailers. At the end of our quarter – our third quarter, we had a total of 198,000 devices under management, up from 180,000 in Q2. More than 10% of the subscribers are paying for licenses now. We had approximately 64% of our M2M sales go direct to enterprise customers during Q3. I'm extremely proud of our significant improvements in the third quarter, and we have positive momentum heading towards year end. We have made the excellent progress in our MiFi business, while holding down expenses. We believe, we are on the path to positive earnings and our outlook continues to brighten. Behind market tailwinds, we see continued strong demand from our current customers as well as opportunities to expand our customer base in geographical diversification. With encouraging progress we have made in the third quarter, we remain excited about our ability to continue to leverage our robust technologies, and look forward to detailing several exciting new relationships, as we progress through the next few quarters. And with that, I will now turn the call over to Mike Newman, our Chief Financial Officer for a discussion of our financial results.