Harry Pearson
Great. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. My name is Harry Pearson. I’m with JPMorgan’s health care investment banking team. It’s my pleasure to be introducing Jim Clemmer, CEO of AngioDynamics; and Stephen Trowbridge, CFO. We’re going to have a presentation followed by a little time for Q&A. Take it away, Jim.
James Clemmer
CEO, President & Director
Thank you, Harry, and thanks for JPMorgan for a perfect conference again. Thank you for joining us today. Before I begin, let me remind you to look at our forward-looking statements, remind you that we’re going to give you some thoughts, ideas, plans and projections today. We can’t guarantee you that all these will come true. But do your good work as investors, do your due diligence and make your best decisions.
So AngioDynamics is a company that has gone through a transformation over the past 5 years or so. We started off as an interventional radiology based company in upstate New York and built a strong legacy serving that community. They got to know us well. we serve them well. But over time, our portfolio needed to be refreshed. So myself and my colleagues took a look about 6 years ago of where we should be, where we shouldn’t be and really how to change the company through a more vibrant scientific-based portfolio that compete in larger, more addressable markets.
So over the past 5 years, the left side of the slide shows you what we’ve done, really focused on refreshing that portfolio. We did 3 divestitures to exit markets or
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