Jin Kang
Analyst · B. Riley FBR. Please proceed with your question
Thank you, operator and good afternoon to you all. Thank you all for joining us today to review our financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2018. The fourth quarter was a strong finish to what was a pivotal year for our business. From a financial perspective, the quarter was highlighted by a 24% increase in revenues to $24.8 million and a 25% increase in gross profit to a $4.5 million. Additionally, our adjusted EBITDA improved from $0.3 million in Q4 of last year to $1 million in Q4 of this year, marking our sixth consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA. For the full year, revenue increased by 10% to a record $83.7 million. Our GAAP net loss for the year narrowed from $3.5 million to $1.5 million and our adjusted EBITDA improved from a loss of $0.9 million in 2017 to positive $1.8 million in 2018. As you may remember from our last earnings call, we projected $82 million to $83 million in revenues and $1.6 million in adjusted EBITDA. So we exceeded our projections that were fairly accurate. The success we achieved in the fourth quarter and in the full year is a direct result of the effective execution of our overall strategy in 2018. I am encouraged to report that we achieved our two key goals for 2018. First, we successfully completed the stabilization of the business and we began to drive strong, sustainable and profitable growth. And secondly, as I have discussed on prior calls, we completed much of the internal restructuring of the company and re-branding of our products in the first half of the year and combined our solutions offerings into a single cohesive offering called Trusted Mobility Management, or TM2. As we look into 2019, we will be focusing more of our attention on increasing revenue as one unified company. In a few minutes, Jason and Kito will dive into some of the specifics of our operational and financial successes. But first, I would like to give a high level overview of some of the successes we have had in the past year and how they fit into our overall strategy and path forward. As a reminder, by breaking down internal barriers between departments, we are able to create several significant cross-selling opportunities among our three verticals. Our expanding service offerings with the Center for Naval Analyses and our work with a contractor that provides identity management solutions to the DHS are perfect examples of this. We were also able to renegotiate some legacy low margin contracts with more favorable high margin terms. While we are proud of the cross-selling successes that have taken place, we recognize that cross-selling current customers, isn’t enough to sustain for accelerated growth over time. Obviously, if you don’t land new customers and new contractors, you eventually run out of customers to whom you can cross-sell. Therefore, we also spent a great deal of our attention of securing substantial new business. During 2018, we won several new contracts with significant customers including the Coast Guard, CDWG, CSG and many others. In 2018, we also made significant progress in bolstering our credentials and improving our compliance with various government organizations. In our space not only would it be impossible to be in the running for many contracts without proper compliance, but each additional credential we acquire is a stamp of approval that makes the decision for customers easy to make and significantly increase the probability they will choose our solution over our competitors. To that end, we received an authorization to operate from the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in July and achieve Section 508 compliance for our Telecom Lifecycle Management platform, ITMS, in May. We also successfully completed our audit for our IdM solution in April 2018 to maintain our authorization to operate from the General Services Administration. The details of these certifications are available in the corresponding press releases for those of you who are curious. But what’s important to keep in mind for all of us is the broader picture. The number and the quality of the certifications we have or some of the primary reasons we frequently beat and will continue to beat our competitors. Our many certifications combined with the quality of the product and services we offer and our professional staff create a unique and what we believe to be sustainable competitive advantage. Certifications are significant, but obviously not the only component to winning new business. In any business, the quality of your product and service is of critical importance to customers and our business is no different. For that reason, we also spent a good portion of our year improving and continuing to develop our current product suite. As I have already mentioned, the launch of our TM2 was a big milestone for us. We remain the only entity in our space that has a full solution suite that enables us to empower our customers with the ability to manage mobile devices, secure them and provide insight into how they are being used. However, for TM2 to function and for it to be the effective solution we believe it to be, each component of the solution must function well independently. Therefore, we are always working to improve each element of TM2. This past year, we made some solid progress in enhancing our IdM solution. Specifically, we improved our Certificate-on-Device capabilities by leveraging what the industry commonly referred to as the derived certificates. We continue to work with original equipment manufacturers to gain access to the encrypted chip embedded on the mobile devices. We are also working with various physical access control vendors to utilize our IdM solution for physical access control rather than relying on the RFID soldered on the identity card. Our solution provides a higher level of security than the RFID method since each identity card is coupled to an individual. We believe that this capability does not currently exist in the market. So, it represents a whole new opportunity for us. We believe that this specific product has a lot of potential for us going forward and we are excited about the continued progress we are making with our IdM solution set. Additionally, we made significant progress preparing our system for the move on to GovCloud and the push toward attaining a FedRAMP certification. More on this topic later in our presentation. It’s been quite a year for us both operationally and financially. We are now in a much more positive place than where we started. The company is healthy due to our internal changes. The momentum we are generating by landing new business, combined with our continued success bolstering our solution and our credentials means that we are currently enjoying this company’s largest competitive advantage to-date. All of this makes us extremely optimistic for 2019. But before I go into specifics about our strategy for 2019 and our expectations, I am going to turn the call over to Jason, who will discuss the detail of some of our recent new contracts as well as provide general updates to our sales and marketing strategy. Kito will then follow with details on our financial performance in his prepared remarks. Please go ahead, Jason.