Douglas Karson
BofA Securities, Research Division
So I’m Doug Karson. Thank you for coming to the conference. We couldn’t do a great conference without great investors or — we certainly need great management teams as well. This year, we have about 1,000 investors and 250 management teams. When I started 20 years ago at BofA, I think this conference was 1/3 the size. So we’re really proud of the event, and we’re grateful to have you guys here. One of the best partners, I think we have at the conference is American Axle. Chris, I think you’ve come almost every year since I’ve been here. And we really appreciate you Shannon Curry, the VP and Treasurer. Chris, of course, is the CFO. American Axle was one of the first companies I covered 20 years ago, and I remember it because I went to see one of the facilities there.
And it was like the cleanest, best operating facility that I think — I didn’t even know what I was seeing when I saw it because I thought they’re all like that. Then over the years, I went to a lot of other facilities and like, wow, that American Axle facility is very different. So I encourage anyone to go reach out to American Axle and try to take a look at the facility if you could, it’s a really special thing to see. American Axle is going through a really big transition with a great merger. We’ll talk about that a little bit. And I think without further ado, we’ll let Chris take over with a couple of slides.
