Forge Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:FRGE) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call May 16, 2022 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Dominic Paschel – Senior Vice President-Finance and Investor Relations

Kelly Rodriques – Chief Executive Officer

Mark Lee – Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Rich Repetto – Piper Sandler

Devin Ryan – JMP Securities

Ken Worthington – JPMorgan

Alex Cram – UBS

Owen Lau – Oppenheimer

Operator

Welcome to Forge’s First Quarter Fiscal 2022. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded and transcribed.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Dominic Paschel, Senior Vice President of Forge. Please go ahead.

Dominic Paschel

Thank you, Josh, and thank you all for joining us today for Forge’s first quarter 2022 earnings call. Joining me today are Kelly Rodriques, Forge’s CEO; and Mark Lee, Forge’s CFO. They will share prepared remarks regarding the quarter results, and then take your questions at the end.

Just after market close today, we issued a press release announcing Forge’s first quarter financial results. A discussion of our results today is complimentary to the press release, which is available on the Investor Relations page of our website. This conference call is being webcast live and will be available as a replay for 30 days. Beginning about one hour after the conclusion of this call, there’s also accompanying presentation on our IR site. During the course of our conference call, we may make forward-looking statements based off of current expectations, forecast and projections, as of today’s date. Any forward-looking statements that we make are subject to various risks uncertainty, and there are important factors that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially from those included in our statements. We discuss these risk factors in our SEC filings, including in our 1Q 2022 Form 8-K, which can soon be found on our IR website. As a reminder, we are not required to update our forward-looking statements.

In our presentation today, unless otherwise noted, we will be discussing adjusted financial measures, which are non-GAAP measures that we believe are meaningful when evaluating the company’s performance. For detailed disclosures on these measures and the GAAP reconciliations you should refer to the financial data contained within our press release, which is also posted the IR website. Today’s discussion will focus on the first quarter 2022 results. As always we encourage you to value Forge’s performance on an annual basis. As quarterly results can be affected by unexpected events, that are outside our control.