Carlyle Secured Lending Inc. (NASDAQ:CGBD) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call May 8, 2024 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Daniel Hahn - Shareholder Relations
Justin Plouffe - Chief Executive Officer
Tom Hennigan - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Bryce Rowe - B. Riley

Operator

Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Carlyle Secured Lending First Quarter 2024 Earnings 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] As a reminder, today's program is being recorded.

I'd like to introduce your host for today's program, Mr. Daniel Hahn, Shareholder Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Daniel Hahn

Good morning, and welcome to Carlyle Secured Lending's first quarter 2024 earnings call. With me on the call this morning is Justin Plouffe, our Chief Executive Officer; and Tom Hennigan, our Chief Financial Officer.

Last night, we filed our Form 10-K and issued a press release with the presentation of our results, which are available on the Investor Relations section of our website. Following our remarks today, we will hold a question-and-answer session for analysts and institutional investors. This call is being webcast, and a replay will be available on our website.

Any forward-looking statements made today do not guarantee future performance, and any undue reliance should not be placed on them. These statements are based on current management expectations and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, including those identified in the Risk Factors section of our annual report on Form 10-K. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated. Carlyle Secured Lending assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements at any time.

With that, I'll turn the call over to Justin.

Justin Plouffe

Thanks Dan. Good morning everyone and thank you all for joining. I'm Justin Plough, the CEO of the Carlyle BDCs and Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Carlyle's global credit platform. As you may know Aren LeeKong, who was previously CEO of the Carlyle BDCs, resigned to pursue new opportunities professionally. We have benefited from Aren’s industry expertise and leadership and thank him for his contributions.

For those of you on the line that I have not spoken with before, I've been part of Carlyle's global credit team since 2007. Besides focusing more broadly on managing growth and credit strategies at Carlyle, I've also been a member of Carlyle's private credit investment committee since its inception. I look forward to taking on responsibility for the direct lending strategy and I'll be working very closely with existing leadership, most notably Tom Hennigan and Mike Hadley.