Hope Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOPE) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call April 25, 2023 12:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Angie Yang - Director, Investor Relations

Kevin Kim - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

David Malone - Interim Chief Financial Officer

Peter Koh - Chief Operating Officer

Julianna Balicka - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Matthew Clark - Piper Sandler

Gary Tenner - D.A. Davidson

Chris McGratty - KBW

Tim Coffey - Janney

Operator

Good afternoon and good morning, and welcome to the Hope Bancorp First Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Angie Yang, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Angie Yang

Thank you, Gary. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us for the Hope Bancorp 2023 first quarter investor conference call. As usual, we will be using a slide presentation to accompany our discussion this morning, which is available on the Presentations page of our Investor Relations website.

Beginning on Slide 2, let me begin with a brief statement regarding forward-looking remarks. The call today may contain forward-looking projections regarding the future financial performance of the company and future events. These statements may differ materially from actual results due to certain risks and uncertainties.

In addition, some of the information referenced on this call today are non-GAAP financial measures. For a more detailed description of the risk factors and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures, please refer to the company's filings with the SEC, as well as the Safe Harbor statements in our press release issued yesterday. Hope Bancorp assumes no obligation to revise any forward-looking projections that may be made on today's call.

Now, we have allotted one hour for this call. Presenting from the management side today will be Kevin Kim, Hope Bancorp's Chairman, President and CEO; and David Malone, who stepped in as our Interim Chief Financial Officer earlier this year. Peter Koh, our Chief Operating Officer is here with us as usual and will be available for the Q&A session. And we also have here with us our new Chief Financial Officer, Julianna Balicka.

With that, let me turn the call over to Kevin Kim. Kevin?

Kevin Kim

Thank you, Angie. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us today. Before I begin my presentation, I would just like to say a few words about how pleased we are to have Julianna on Board as our new CFO. We have known Julianna since her days as a research analyst covering our predecessor banks. And while we have certainly undergone a transformation as Bank of Hope today, she is fitting right in and is up and running already.