Ardmore Shipping Corporation (NYSE:ASC) 2023 Investor Day and Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 14, 2023 12:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Bryan Degnan - Managing Director, The IGB Group

Curtis McWilliams - Chairman

Anthony Gurnee - President and Chief Executive Officer

Bart Kelleher - Chief Financial Officer

Gernot Ruppelt - Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Sean Morgan - Evercore ISI

Christopher Robertson - Deutsche Bank

Bryan Degnan

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Ardmore Shipping’s 2023 Investor Day, during which we will also be covering the Company’s results for the Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2022.

I’m Bryan Degnan with the IGB Group. Just a few administrative points before we get underway today. The event is being recorded and broadly distributed via live webcast, which, along with today’s slide is accessible at www.ardmoreshipping.com. An audio replay of the event will be available on the website from later today. The standard earnings press release was issued pre-market this morning and is also available on the website.

So later in the event, following prepared remarks, there will be a Q&A session, at which point, we will take questions from the people with us in the room today. For those joining remotely, please feel free to submit any questions that you might have at any time to ardmore@ig, G as in girl, B as in boy, ir.com, so ardmore@igbir.com. Throughout the event and for the benefit of those joining remotely, we would ask that all speakers and questioners utilize the provided microphones.

Slide 3 for the disclaimer here. Please allow me to remind you that our discussion today contains forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements is contained in the fourth quarter and full-year 2022 earnings release.

Now moving to Slide 4, I would just like to briefly introduce you to the members of the Ardmore’s leadership team, and we have the pleasure of hearing from today. We have with us Curtis McWilliams, Ardmore’s Chairman; Anthony Gurnee, Founder and Chief Executive Officer; Bart Kelleher, Chief Financial Officer; and Gernot Ruppelt, Chief Commercial Officer.

And with that, I would ask Curtis McWilliams, Ardmore’s Chairman, to come up for some brief opening remarks.

Curtis McWilliams

I promise they’ll be brief. On behalf of the Board of Ardmore Shipping, I’d like to welcome you to this our Annual Investor Day presentation. Now it’s been 10 years since Ardmore became a publicly listed company on the New York Exchange. Over this time, Ardmore has always been committed to the highest standards of both governance and transparency. Today’s presentation is just one element of this commitment, and I hope you will find it both interesting and informative.