Xencor, Inc. (NASDAQ:XNCR) Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call February 27, 2024 4:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Charles Liles - Head, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations

Bassil Dahiyat - President & Chief Executive Officer

Nancy Valente - Chief Development Officer

Dane Leone - Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy

Conference Call Participants

Dylan Drakes - Leerink Partners

Etzer Darout - BMO Capital Markets

Kaveri Pohlman - BTIG

Brian Cheng - JPMorgan

Tara Bancroft - TD Cowen

Operator

Good afternoon, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Xencor's Fourth Quarter and Year End 2023 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded at the company's request.

Now, I would like to turn the call over to your speaker today, Charles Liles, Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. The floor is yours.

Charles Liles

Thank you, and good afternoon.

Earlier today, we issued a press release, which outlines the topics we plan to discuss today. It's available at www.xencor.com.

Providing comments on the call are Bassil Dahiyat, President and Chief Executive Officer; Nancy Valente, Chief Development Officer; and Dane Leone, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy. After the prepared remarks and presentation, we will then open up the call for your questions, and we will then be joined by John Desjarlais, Chief Scientific Officer, and John Kuch, Chief Financial Officer.

Slides that we are using today should be visible here on the webcast and we've made available for download on the Events & Presentations page of our website.

Before we begin, I would like to remind you that during the course of the conference call, Xencor management may make forward-looking statements, 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. The 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.