Ayman S. Ashour
Analyst · Cowen and Company
Good morning. Thank you, Darby, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. Q3 revenues were poorer than we expected. Some of our U.S. government business didn't hit us till late in September -- or actually, early October, but we do have it. Our larger -- our large much delayed order for the Singapore metro started shipping in the -- late in the quarter. Nevertheless, Q3 was a critical quarter for Identive and significant progress was made in many areas. Our base operating expenses decreased by an additional 9% sequentially. Adjusted EBITDA improved substantially. Despite weaker sales levels, we lowered our adjusted breakeven drastically. You will see this in black and white when David Wear compares Q3 of this year to Q3 of last year. We are a lot better on the cash side than the guidance we gave, primarily because of the timing of our payment solution business. So $2 million collected over the weekend before the end of the month and without that -- and without the restricted cash numbers, which David will also go into, we were still ahead of our projection. So in this area, we performed particularly well. More importantly, we believe with the new capital we secured and announced this morning, we will be able to remove the concerns about our liquidity without dilution. This has obviously caused uncertainty. This, coupled with the position of a share overhang caused by the widely expected sale of shares from our second-largest shareholder has also gone. This position is totally now wound out and we believe across the board major progress has been made. Looking at our main business categories. We had record sales of smart card readers to the U.S. government agencies in Q3 supporting cyber-security programs and continued to expand into the Japanese telco market. Europe was very weak, but important new opportunities emerged in China and the Middle East. Transponders were poor in Q3 due to continued project delays such as the Singapore Metro, actually, principally. However, we saw a reversal in this trend at the end of the quarter where we announced some significant new orders. Our Nokia NFC business strengthened a lot during the quarter with increased tag-in-box demand. I will talk more about our progress in NFC in a moment. Recovery of our transponder business contributes to our stronger forecast for sales in Q4 and in 2013. We saw strong performance in our sports payment operations, processing transactions of approximately 900,000 with about $7 million in approximately 44 events during the quarter, and this is just on the business we actually processed. This does not include any of the other payment work we've done during the quarter, such as handling over 100,000 users during the Olympics at hospitality events in London. We also provided payment system for a new Stadium in Holland. This would be our first stadium in Holland and 14th overall. This increased payment activity drove higher percentage of our business in the consumer ID, which is an area of strategic importance for us. You will see that this 35% of our business now comes from consumer ID. In Identity Management and cloud solutions, the timing of access control orders from some U.S. government customers caused slippage into Q4. idOnDemand software as a service activity continued to be poor on the revenue front in Q3, but we have since then had a breakthrough with firm orders from our #1 top prospect, who will be deploying our cloud-based identity management solutions in Q4 and 2013. Our SaaS activity now is expanding with at least 4 Fortune 200 customers, who come from technology, insurance, utility and healthcare sectors. The selection of our idOnDemand solution is the beginning of a long-term close relationship with these customers, where Identive provides core value. Onto the next slide with the business overview. I'm looking now at the business and market activities in Q3. Despite record smart card readers sales, the U.S. governor revenues -- U.S. government revenues were overall weaker than expected for Q3. Normally, Q3 is seasonally strong for us and especially for sales of our access control systems. However, sometimes this gets shifted to October if the orders are coming through an integrator or an intermediary, which happened in this particular case. A lot of orders came in, in the last week and a lot of orders came in, in the first week of October. One of the orders that we received late in the month was an order for the U.S. Navy for our RUU systems or subsystems where we integrate contact, contact-less or scrambled keypad and fingerprint biometrics into a single unit that is used as the ultimate authentication device to confirm identity of an individual. We also delivered several important new products in Q3 and early in Q4. In September, we launched our Hirsch Velocity 3.5 with console-based version of our next generation access control and ID Management platform. This allows us to bring -- to move our large installed base of access control customers towards a more software-centric business model with the delivery of greater visibility and control through our solution. We also launched a host of new services and products which I'll discuss in a bit. In our emerging growth markets, we made significant progress in a number of areas in Q3. In addition to the new NFC orders I mentioned earlier, we continued our market development activities with ongoing presales engagement around our NFC tag management platform. Through our expanded IdentiveNFC.com online store, we launched a number of social media logo tags for applications such as Facebook "Like", "Follow us on Twitter", Pinterest, et cetera. These tags are now overtaking the traditional NFC tags on our IdentiveNFC.com online market. The market for SaaS-based identity management is still emerging and the cycle of customer education, pilot trials and finally conversion into enterprise deployment has proven to be very long. Our recent customer wins encompass several thousand users initially and will ramp up overtime. These selections are an important milestone and we are building on this. The opportunity here is significant and with the technology behind our idOnDemand solution, we are well positioned to give us a lead in this early market. In payment during Q3, we provided NFC phone payment tax to Yeldi, our partner in India, that is using these tags to equip Indian consumers with the means of making cashless payments. This new innovative application actually uses the NFC phones as mobile points-of-sale, initially, targeting people with no bank accounts to make cashless payments. The new stadium customer I mentioned in the Netherlands also applied for our cashless payment solutions during the quarter and contributed to strong performance of our payment solutions business in Q3. While market developments have led to improved outlook for our business in Q4, we still see weakness in Europe in particular, because of continued economic uncertainty. The pushouts of transponder business creates a challenge for us, so we end up moving from running well below capacity to running probably at the overcapacity during this quarter and Q1 in this particular area looking very well, but it is an area that's really challenging for us to be able to calibrate -- complete the right to make sure we're not disappointing our customers for delivery by being overbooked, but also not ending up with running significantly under capacity because we have not -- we don't have enough business because customers pushed out orders. This obviously gets a little bit easier as we bring more capacity online this -- late this month in Singapore, particularly. I would now like to hand you over to David Wear, our CFO who will take you through our results for Q3. And then I'll wrap up with some strategic comments and the outlook.