Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Proto Labs’ Fourth Quarter 2013 Conference Call. During today’s presentation, all parties will be in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, the conference will be opened for questions. (Operator instructions) This conference is being recorded today, Tuesday, February 11, 2014. Now I’d like to turn the conference over to Bill Dietrick, Vice President of Marketing at Proto Labs. Please go ahead Mr. Dietrick.

Thank you, operator and good morning, everyone. This morning, before the market opened, Proto Labs issued a press release announcing its fourth quarter financial results for the period ended December 31, 2013. The release is available on the company’s website at protolabs.com. Before we get started, during the course of this conference call, the company will provide financial projections and make other statements about its business that are forward-looking and subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. A detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties that affect the business is contained in the company’s annual report filed on Form 10-K and other SEC filings, particularly under the heading Risk Factors. Copies of these filings are available online from the SEC or on the Proto Labs website. The company’s projections and other forward-looking statements are based on factors that are subject to change, and therefore these statements speak only as of the date they are given. The company does not undertake to update any projection or forward-looking statement. In addition, to supplement the GAAP numbers, we have provided non-GAAP adjusted net income and basic and diluted net income per share information that excludes the after-tax cost of stock compensation. We believe that this non-GAAP number provides meaningful supplemental information and is helpful in assessing our historical and future performance. A table reconciling the GAAP information to the non-GAAP information is included in our financial release. Now I’d like to turn the call over to Brad Cleveland, former Chief Executive Officer of Proto Labs. Brad?

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today, on our fourth quarter 2013 conference call. It’s an exciting time for Proto Labs ending 2013 with more record results, and starting 2014 with a uniquely qualified CEO to take the company to the next level. On that note, with me today, is Vicky Holt, our newly appointed President and CEO, and Jack Judd, our Chief Financial Officer. I will provide a brief overview of our fourth quarter 2013 financial results and some commentary on our Cool Idea! marketing program. I will then turn the call over to Vicky so she can provide her background, and thoughts on joining Proto Labs. Jack will provide a more detailed look at our financial results, and offer our views on the outlook for the first quarter of 2014. We will then be glad to take your questions. I’m glad to report that for the seventh consecutive quarter, Proto Labs achieved record revenue. Fourth quarter revenue was $44 million, a 31% increase over the fourth quarter of 2012. Our year-over-year revenue growth numbers has been impressive throughout 2013 and we look forward to another strong year in 2014 as our services become known to more product developers, and we continue to dig deeper and wider in our current customer base. Our new Proto Labs services ramping during 2014, will help accelerate our growth as we offer even more ways to make parts for our customers. Our record consolidated results were the result of each of our geographic regions, having record revenues. Proto Labs U.S. achieved record revenue of $32.8 million, a 26% increase over the same quarter in 2012. This marks the eighth consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth in the U.S. As our largest geographic location, this is a very impressive result. Proto Labs…

Thank you, Brad. I am humbled, excited and energized to join such a high performing growth company at Proto Labs. Just a little on my background. I have over 25 years of P&L experience with large manufacturing companies that have a strong technology base including Monsanto Company, Solutia, and PPG Industries. Most recently, I was the CEO of Spartech Corporation, a $1.2 billion publicly traded company which supplied plastic sheet, compound and packaging solutions to a wide variety of OEMs and a wide variety of end markets. I’ve had many years of experience driving material specifications with the same product developers who buy services from Proto Labs. I know how valuable we are to them. We reduce time to market, we reduce waste, we reduce costs, and we take risk out of introducing new products. As a leader, I’ve learned the importance of strong technology, a compelling value proposition, and a commitment to innovation and also great people. Proto Labs has it all. I did quite a bit of due diligence as I went through the recruitment process. And I must admit, the more I learned, the more I fell in love with this company. I talked with several product developers, and what truly encouraged me during these calls, was the fact that everyone I spoke to who has used Proto Labs was not just delighted. They had what I call, the wow factor. We blew them away. The other thing that encouraged me was the fact that there were many product developers who did not even know Proto Labs. And when I described the company, all they could say was, "Wow cool. I’m definitely going to use them next time." So I’m confident there’s tremendous growth opportunity with further penetration of existing markets. I also did quite a bit of due diligence internally, within Proto Labs. And although I continue to learn more every day, my review only served to further validate my confidence in the future of this business. The Proto Labs people are fantastically talented, committed to results and truly believe in the huge growth potential of this company. The strength of the technology to deliver real parts really fast, is also very real. The company delivers on this value proposition every day without heroics, but with solid technology and operational excellence. In the next couple of months, I intend to meet more of our team members, and our customers to understand what more we can do to successfully execute on our three pronged growth strategy; adding new customers, developing technologies to offer additional manufacturing processes, and developing new technologies to broaden our parts envelop with complexity and additional materials. So I thank you for joining us today. And I look forward to personally meeting many of you, and to reporting on the progress of Proto Labs after our next quarter. Now I’d like to turn it over to Jack, to provide a deeper view of our financial results. Jack?

Thank you, Vicky. Revenue in the fourth quarter of 2013 was 44 million, an increase of 10.4 million, or 31% over fourth quarter 2012 revenue. Protomold revenue during the just completed quarter, was 30.7 million, and Firstcut revenue was 13.3 million. During the quarter, Firstcut revenue represented 30% of total revenue consistent when compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. Our international revenue was 13 million, or 29% of total revenue during the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to 8.6 million or 26% of revenue during the same period in 2012. The negative effects of currency were approximately $300,000 this past quarter. As reviewed earlier, we are transitioning from looking at revenue growth from customer companies, the number of product developers we do business with, each quarter. When looking at this new measurement we did business with nearly 7,300 product developers in the just completed fourth quarter, an increase of 21% compared to 6,000 the previous year. The average revenue for product developer, increased 8.6% in the just completed quarter compared to the same quarter in 2012. Our gross in operating margins in the fourth quarter of 2013 were 62.7% and 31.5% respectively. During the fourth quarter of 2012, these were 62.5% and 30.5%. We continue to experience higher than target model margins due to our effective forecasting of labor and leveraging of our operating expenses. Companywide, at the end of December, we had 749 total employees versus 622 at the end of December 2012. Our inside selling force and support employees total 147 at the end of December, compared to 120 at the end of December 2012. Diluted earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2013 were $0.36, adding back the after tax cost of stock compensation. Our non-GAAP diluted earnings per share in the quarter, were $0.39,…

(Operator instructions) Please standby for your first question which comes from the line of Troy Jensen at Piper Jaffray. Go ahead please. Troy Jensen – Piper Jaffray & Co.: Congratulations on the nice results.

Thank you, Troy. Troy Jensen – Piper Jaffray & Co.: So Brad, just – I really want to say good luck. It’s been a pleasure working with you and I wish you all the best.

Thank you, Troy. Troy Jensen – Piper Jaffray & Co.: Vicky, shifting the torch here, you obviously have a strong plastics and industrial background, but I’d just be curious to know, you know, what experiences have you had in your last couple of jobs with respect to product development and how prototyping was used?

Great. Thanks for the question, Troy. Yes, it’s interesting. I’ve come in to a leadership role with five different companies. And each particular company has certain challenge with it. And so I look at the last couple of experiences, they all have growth associated with them because again, if you’re not growing and you’re not developing your markets, you’re dying. I would say one of the most impactful though, in terms of growth was when at Solutia, I was brought in to lead the Saflex business which was an operationally excellent business in Solutia. But then, really, we wanted to create the growth engine for the company which then became Performance Films. And that business grew from about 600 million to less than $1 billion for six years with a combination of one acquisition, but two-thirds of the growth was truly organic. And that was developing existing adjacent markets and bringing new products to market. So very exciting, very global business and each region of the world having to do that. So I’ve got quite a bit of experience there. PPG Industries, the focus was on continuing to upgrade the mix, to bringing in products and applications that had a higher degree of specification. So moving into composite materials like wind energy, high pressure pipe, energy infrastructure, and then glass, and the solar markets and solar control glazing. And then in Spartech, the growth was also toward upgrading to more highly specified products that had more special nature to it, such as aircraft canopies or materials that would go into highly engineered thermal plastic composites. Troy Jensen – Piper Jaffray & Co.: Perfect, sounds very [indiscernible]. [Indiscernible] one quick follow up. I was wondering if you guys could touch base on some of the new materials, I guess, I’m most interested liquid silicone rubber, but maybe touch on thixo and the metal injection molding, please.

Thank for the question, Troy. As we’ve said, we did roll out right at first of the year, to the whole market thixo molding and MIM. As I’ve said before, they are smaller markets, so will require more development, and so the process of rolling out and the revenue we receive so far would be small and we hope to grow it over the course of the year. LSR is on track. We expect to roll it out early in the second quarter and we continue to remain very positive about our capabilities, what’s going on today is we ordered additional presses, because as you know, we need to have capacity onboard before we offer the services and when the new presses come in and they’re ready to roll, we expect to be out in the market. Troy Jensen – Piper Jaffray & Co.: Jack, is that Q2 launch for liquid silicone, has that changed at all? I guess, I thought it was available in Q1.

We currently are making parts and selling parts that I would say it’s more based upon us finding designs and working with individual product developers, but it is not rolled out to the product development community as a whole. I think in our last call, we talked about rolling it out sometime in the second quarter or early summer. And so, I think we actually a little bit earlier than what we would have thought three or four months ago. Troy Jensen – Piper Jaffray & Co.: Okay, perfect. I’ll [indiscernible] and just good luck in 2014.

Thanks, Troy.

Your next question comes from the line of Nicole DeBlase at Morgan Stanley. Please proceed. Nicole DeBlase – Morgan Stanley: Yeah, good morning, and congratulations to you, Brad.

Thanks, Nicole. Nicole DeBlase – Morgan Stanley: And Vicky as well, of course.

Thank you, Nicole. Nicole DeBlase – Morgan Stanley: Yeah, so, just – what you’re seeing in 1Q ‘14, have you guys seen any weather related impact to customer demand so far?

Good question and we are looking at that all the time. One of the things, of course, about our business is that we have really no traditional backlog. And so, little events like the weather could impact our revenue right away. And so, it’s hard for us to know though that East Coast shuts down for a day, whether the business never comes back or whether the business comes back stronger one and two weeks later. And so, we’re still watching for that, but good question. Nicole DeBlase – Morgan Stanley: Okay, thanks, Jack. And then, and maybe one more on just Europe, I mean, the acceleration there was really, really impressive. I’m just curious, I mean, is that more about penetrating the market more deeply? Is it about market growth improving there? If you could just dig into that a bit more, that would be great.

I would portray our European results in the fourth quarter as doing a much better job. But it doesn’t mean that we didn’t do a good job before, but a much better job of penetrating our current customer base and digging deeper and wider, which again is a significant strategy of our sales and marketing teams. Nicole DeBlase – Morgan Stanley: Okay, thanks, guys, I’ll pass it on.

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Jim Ricchiuti at Needham & Company. Go ahead, please. Jim Ricchiuti – Needham & Company: Thanks, good morning. A couple of questions. First, congrats on the quarter. In terms of the products developer served, good year-over-year growth, it was flat sequentially and maybe this is – ties in to the previous question about weather or maybe it’s also just the seasonal nature, because if you go back, it looks like you typically show modest growth from the September quarter and the December quarter in terms of developer served. Can you just talk a little bit about how we might think about that?

I don’t know if I have any big words of wisdom that are going to make you happy on this, Jim. The truth is, is that we served a tremendous amount of product developers. I am sure that there is seasonal aspects to how they come to us that I’m not – so we always understand, but the 7,000 plus number that we had this quarter, I think we’ve very, very happy with it. Jim Ricchiuti – Needham & Company: Okay. Can you talk about headcount and where we might see headcount particularly if you’ve got any plans you could share with us just in terms of the inside sales as you know where – over the next couple of quarters?

Good question, and we expect to hire more employees in sales and marketing than our revenue growth. So hopefully, a year from now, we won’t be talking that we increased the headcount in those areas by maybe 35% year-over-year versus in the 25% like we’ve had in the past year. So, as I said, we’re going to try to be smart and invest properly, and that will be in greater headcount to sales. We’re bullish about our ability to bring people onboard. I know that we’ve always spoken before about being conservative that we don’t want to add too many at a time, but we think that we’re well-situated to bring on a few more people that we had in the past. Jim Ricchiuti – Needham & Company: Brad, I wanted to just wish you the best and, Vicky, congratulations. And maybe just one question for you. If you look at the business, one of the big unique challenges is building the awareness for Proto Labs. I wonder if you could just talk a little bit. I know it’s only a few days but just in general, how you see that challenge and how you are going to tackle that.

Right. Yeah, this is my day four at Proto Labs. Jim Ricchiuti – Needham & Company: Right, right.

I’m learning a lot but I absolutely agree with you, awareness, it was really interesting when I was calling a lot of people I’ve done business with in the development area, and how many didn’t know who we are. So tremendous opportunity; the marketing team is implementing a lot of new tools to drive that awareness. I also think there’s opportunities for us to look at down sell – I mean, to selling from the top of some of the larger companies to really attack and get broad-based approaches with large groups of product developers within major corporations. So I think we’re going to be hitting it from both angles going forward and I know we’re employing some new tools, some new database marketing tools that are going to help us be more effective as well. So, I’m really excited about it. And there is, like I said, tremendous opportunity for growth just by driving awareness in existing markets with existing tools and existing services. Jim Ricchiuti – Needham & Company: Okay. Thanks a lot. Good luck, Brad.

Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of John Baliotti at Janney Capital Markets. Go ahead, please. John Baliotti – Janney Capital Markets: Thank you. And I also want to pass my congratulations on to you, Vicky, and into you, Brad, all the best to both of you.

Thank you.

Thanks. John Baliotti – Janney Capital Markets: I guess, I don’t know who wants to tackle this. I just – in terms of R&D, obviously, you’re getting great traction out of the development work. The margins were strongly above where we’re expecting despite the raised R&D and obviously revenue growth is coming along really nice as well. So just wondering, is there a way to look at the balance of the R&D in terms of maybe near-term prospects like the LSR or longer-term prospects? I mean, how are you guys balancing that given everything that you see in terms of opportunity?

Thank you for the question, John. I think overall Proto Labs has a long history of being smart with how we spend money. And I think that that streak will continue forward very strongly. We always have things going on in the R&D side. Some of them are closer. Maybe some of them have higher probability than others but we always need to have a mixed of maybe a couple of dreams and a couple of things that are going to come out soon. And that is the case today. Most of the R&D money for LSR has been spent, but we do have other things currently in our Proto Works [ph] building that might be rolled out maybe further into this year, might be rolled out next year that at the appropriate time we’ll give more detail on. But it’s important for us to always have lots of ideas that we’re working and I can tell you right now that there is a three or four good ideas that are being worked on at Proto Labs that we have not talked about that hopefully sometime this year they’ll be in a state that we can’t talk about them. John Baliotti – Janney Capital Markets: And, Jack, just a follow up on that. I think we’ve talked about this in the past but, is a fair amount of the idea that you work on, is that – are you fielding from customers? Because obviously, as you pointed out, you are investing wisely because you’re getting next margin traction on these investments and nice growth, so it’s clearly not – you’re not just going out on your own and that there seems to be some input and I was just curious, is a good portion of that input coming from your existing customers?

We always know – we talk with our customers obviously often and they give us ideas of a way to making parts. We do know what we can’t do. We keep track of that. So I think that’s a combination of all factors, but it’s definitely us being aware of the process and the way parts are being made in the marketplace and we hope to pick up a couple of them just like we picked up with LSR. John Baliotti – Janney Capital Markets: Great. Thanks very much.

Thanks. Your next question comes from the line of Brian Drab at William Blair. Please proceed. Brian Drab – William Blair: Hi, good morning.

Good morning, Brian. Brian Drab – William Blair: I’m on a plane; you might be able to tell. It’s about to – the door is about to close in about 45 seconds, so I just want to say, again, Brad, congratulations and, Vicky, obviously, congratulations to you. Look forward to working with you and just a couple of quick questions and then mute my line for you. I think I know the answer to the first one, but I just want to make sure that this is clear, that the long-term operating margin guidance of 29% is a GAAP number, is that correct? And the second is, and the non-GAAP number would be roughly 200 basis points plus above that.

Our non-GAAP number would be very dependent upon the amount of stock options that the board gives out, and it would be hard for me to say that past history would dictate what future history would be on that. But it’s been normally around $0.03 a share but it could go up or down, Brian, so I hate to pick a projection on it in the future. Brian Drab – William Blair: Okay, thanks. And then, two quick ones and then I will mute. stainless steel was introduced about a year ago in CNC [ph] and I’m just wondering if you could give us an update as to how material that is to the Firstcut side of the business at this point, given when you introduced aluminum, it was such a strong contributor pretty quickly. And then also, if you could give an update, if there is any, on the addressable market, the $6 billion figure, something that we’re always looking for an update, and given – so liquid silicone rubber opportunity to maybe, that expand. Thank you very much. Thanks again.

This is Brad. Stainless steel is coming along really well. It’s now taking off as fast as aluminum did but it’s coming along great and we’re very happy with what we’re hearing from our customers and the value that we bring to that market. With respect to the addressable [ph] market, I believe he was talking about the LDM [ph] process. And we’re so early into that yet. We don’t know how hard the customers are going to pull, but all of the initial feedback from customers so far has been very, very positive. We’re doing in liquid silicone rubber molding what we did with Protomold in the early days. We do in a few days what most people take weeks and weeks to do and that’s what we’re hearing over and over again. So we think the poll there is going to be very, very strong. We have not done any update though of our CAM study that we completed last year. So there’s been no update in that and, I guess, we haven’t talked about what we might update this year but we might.

It’s been too busy [ph].

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Greg McKinley at Dougherty & Company. Please proceed.

Good morning, Greg. Greg McKinley – Dougherty & Company: Good morning, thank you. I wonder if you could just touch on two things. First of all, Jack, you had talked about some areas for maybe accelerated investment operationally this year. One of them was clearly maybe growing your internal sales staff at a greater rate than revenues at least in the near term. What were the other – are there a couple of other key areas that we should be aware of where you’re accelerating investment.

We’re certainly are testing out some new marketing programs. We always look for marketing programs that are effective in generating leads and our marketing team is coming up with a couple of ideas. So I’ll expect marketing spend to be higher as a percentage of revenue than it was this past year. And then also, the R&D side, with as many ideas as we have working on in the R&D is that if we get an opportunity to spend a little bit more money that would help us enable to get those things to the market faster, we will be doing that too. Greg McKinley – Dougherty & Company: And did you share targeted ranges for those line items?

Yeah, I did. Fixed, that they stay the same. Greg McKinley – Dougherty & Company: Okay.

Selling and marketing and R&D stayed the same as they have been before. It was just that we took down the G&A and we took up our gross margin. Greg McKinley – Dougherty & Company: Okay.

That’s how we get the two points of additional target model margin. Greg McKinley – Dougherty & Company: Yeah, okay. And then, regarding gross margin, so you sort of moved your targeted range to maybe where the company is already sort of proven its run rate at. How should we think about the extra investment in the early part of the year? Now, my understanding is labor is a major component of your cost of sales and Firstcut tends to be a lower labor component of cost than Protomold, but how should we think about that trending as you layer in your new capacity in the first half of the year?

I don’t really think that any of our numbers in terms of labor percentage compared to our gross margin overall, I don’t expect it to change that significantly that anybody is going to notice it. You remind everybody that when you try to run factories at 80% and you don’t run things full out [ph] and you always have to have people on board to take orders is there’s always a little bit of variability with some of those ratios. It does not mean that it is out of control. It’s just more of the fact to how we run our factories. And this past year, I think our manufacturing teams throughout the world did a wonderful job of managing that labor component against the order flow and I look forward to it happening again this year. Greg McKinley – Dougherty & Company: Okay. Thank you. And then, just my interpretation of your comments; should we expect the company to no longer report customer companies migrating to just a full disclosure of unique product developers going forward, how should we think of that?

Well, I did make a commitment that we would continue to show that data throughout 2013 and when we get ready to do our first quarter 2014 release, we’ll discuss it internally. You can see that we don’t make any comments about it in our script. We don’t make any comments about it in our press release because we’re really trying to get people to concentrate on the product developer number because that is truly how we sell and how we market. Greg McKinley – Dougherty & Company: Yeah, and on that topic, is there any way you can describe for us if there was any feeling amongst the large customers within your base in terms of how far penetrated you feel you might be at this point in time versus where you might have been a year ago. I know it’s sort of a difficult question to quantify, but is there any color you can add to that where you think you are in the progression there?

I really can’t add any color besides we feel last year we feel today that we have barely penetrated the opportunity in big customers. Greg McKinley – Dougherty & Company: Okay. Thank you guys.

Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Joseph Gorfinkle at the JHS Capital Advisors. Go ahead, please. Joseph Gorfinkle – JHS Capital Advisors: Yeah, hey, thanks very much. Great quarter guys; really appreciate it. And, yeah, this is sort of a continuation in some of the last question was on – so, how do you think about revenues per customer and moving towards a more steady-state business versus transactional and any specific goals you might have in that regard?

We take orders and if somebody gives us a $149 Firstcut part, it counts as the product developer and it counts as our revenue, and sometimes you might be lucky that somebody could give us an order for nine molds [ph] and the parts related and it could be a $70,000 sale. And so we have a huge standard deviation going on in terms of those averages and I think that’s going to continue. Our product developer can’t give us business that they don’t have. This isn’t like selling stereos or cards where you can get somebody to buy something that they don’t need and that’s going to be a part of our business going forward. And so I think it’s going to be transactional and it’s still a great business. It’s just that we will not have that predictability that a lot of other businesses have or the ability to create a sale based upon a want versus a need. Joseph Gorfinkle – JHS Capital Advisors: Right, thanks for that.

Thank you.

Thank you. You have no further questions, so I’d now like to turn the call back to Vicky Holt for closing remarks.

Thank you, David. First, I’d like to also congratulate Brad. He’s done a great job building this company and I am, as I said, humbled and grateful to the support that he and the board and the confidence they’ve given me to take the company to the next level. I want to thank you all for joining us today. I hope I’ve expressed my genuine excitement at the opportunity to lead this great company. I look forward to continuing to meet with our employees in all of our geographic locations. We clearly have great confidence in the continuing strengths of our business model and the value proposition we bring to our customers, and I’m excited about the growth opportunities ahead of us. Thanks for joining us.

Thank you for your participation in today’s conference. This concludes the presentation. You may now disconnect. Do enjoy the rest of your day.