John Ronan Kennedy
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Okay. We’re going to get started. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to day 1 of the 43rd edition of our Barclays Industrial Select Conference. I’m Ronan Kennedy. I’m a proud member of Barclays Business Information and Professional Services team, Manav’s team BIPS as we’re affectionately referred to. And I do the business services side of the coverage for Manav, which includes a host of names, including Cintas who we just heard from, Ecolab, Rollins and of course, McGrath RentCorp. So we’re very pleased to be joined by McGrath, a leading B2B and services provider of rental and related services, specialing in modular, portable storage and electronic test equipment in the U.S. Our chat this morning comes at an important moment in the company’s history because we approach an executive transition at the CEO seat that was announced just under 2 weeks ago.
We’re joined by their leadership trio, representing both the strategic legacy and future direction of McGrath. So to my right, we have incoming CEO and current Chief Operating Officer, Phil Hawkins; outgoing CEO, Joe Hanna; and the EVP and CFO, Keith Pratt. I’ll also just note for those who aren’t as familiar, we just initiated McGrath as an overweight. But we’re very pleased to have you guys here today. So thank you for joining us. I think Joe, if I’m not mistaken, you have a safe harbor you’d like to quickly touch on before.
