Xencor, Inc. (NASDAQ:XNCR) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 3, 2023 4:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Charles Liles - Head of Corporate Communications & IR

Bassil Dahiyat - Co-Founder and CEO

Nancy Valente - Chief Development Officer

John Desjarlais - Chief Scientific Officer

Conference Call Participants

Mara Goldstein - Mizuho Securities

Etzer Darout - BMO Capital Markets

Edward Tenthoff - Piper Sandler

Brian Chang - JPMorgan

Alec Stranahan - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Kaveri Pohlman - BTIG

Charles Zhu - Guggenheim Securities

Matt Kemper - Leerink Partners

Boris Peaker - TD Cowen

Anish Nikhanj - RBC Capital Markets

Operator

Good afternoon, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Xencor's Second Quarter 2023 Conference Call. After the speakers' presentation there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that this call is going to be recorded at the company's request.

I would now like to turn the call over to your speaker today, Charles Liles, Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. Go ahead, Charles.

Charles Liles

Thank you, and good afternoon. Earlier today, we issued a press release, which outlines the topics we plan to discuss today, available at www.xencor.com.

Providing comments on the call is Bassil Dahiyat, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Nancy Valente, Chief Development Officer. Afterwards, we will open up the call for your questions, and we'll be joined by John Desjarlais, Chief Scientific Officer; and John Kuch, Chief Financial Officer.

Before we begin, I would like to remind you that during the course of this conference call, Xencor management may make forward-looking including statements regarding the company's future financial and operating results, future market conditions, plans and objectives of management, future operations, the company's partnering efforts, capital requirements, future product offerings and research and development programs.

These forward-looking statements are not historical facts, but rather are based on our current expectations and beliefs and are based on information currently available to us. Outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated by these forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, those factors contained in the Risk Factors section of our most recently filed annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q.

With that, I'll pass the call over to Bassil.

Bassil Dahiyat

Thanks, Charles, and good afternoon. We'll have brief comments and then get to the Q&A because we've received positive feedback on having abbreviated comments on our call in the past two quarters. So I think we'll keep to that.