Brian L. Pratt - Chairman
Management
Good morning, everyone, and thanks for dialing in. As most of you know, this is my first earnings call as Chairman and not CEO. And before turning the call over to David, I would like to say a few words. Other than my family, my career here at Primoris, and before that, ARB, has been the most gratifying part of my life. The people I have served and served with have been the source of great satisfaction in the 41 years here at the company. As I have said many times over the last month, I'm not retiring, I'm simply pushing back from the day-to-day operation of the business to focus on strategy, including mergers and acquisitions, a focus where I think I can offer great value. This shouldn't come as a great surprise to anyone that has followed our company, as we established a succession committee for this precise purpose in March of 2011. So after four years plus of effort investigating dozens and dozens of candidates to find the right person for the job, we finally accomplished the task. That being said, I'm very confident in our choice of David as my successor. I've known him longer than his tenure here and have had the opportunity to work with him closely for over a year-and-a-half. I'm impressed with his ethics, his work ethic, his intelligence, skill-set and dedication to our company. Over the past four decades, we've enjoyed terrific success, and most of the reason we had is because we've hired and nurtured great talent, the very best the industry has to offer. David is no exception to this history of attractive and inspiring brilliant people. Another key to our success is the fact that it isn't based on one person. We continue to have a hugely broad and deep set of invested and talented managers that have voiced and exhibited their embrace to this change. Finally, as I've had a chance to share with many of the investors online, I'm very honored by your belief and confidence in our company. By the way, I remain the largest shareholder of the company and have no plans to change that status. So now, to all listening today, everyone that has invested time, interest, money, hard work and heartache, thank you for everything you've done for Primoris and me, and I deeply am grateful. David?