James B. Debello
Analyst · Bhavan Suri, William Blair & Company
Thanks, Julie, and good afternoon, everyone. I'll begin by reviewing our third quarter results and provide some commentary on Mitek's progress. Then Russ will go over the Q3 financials, and we'll open the call for your questions. For the third quarter of fiscal 2012, we posted revenues of $3.2 million and a non-GAAP net loss of $1.2 million. The return to revenue growth was obviously a key focus for us. But also we continued laying the foundation for future growth by investing in new product development and building the management team appropriately as we scale our business. Toward that end, we made 2 recent strategic hires, both of whom are industry veterans to add further bench strength to our management team. Mike Strange joins us from Green Dot where he was CTO, and he brings 20 years of experience in payments, prepaid and hosted services to Mitek. As Mitek's Chief Technology Officer, Mike's proven track record in engineering management and product development will be invaluable as we grow and diversify our product offerings. Mike Diamond also joined us as Senior Vice President of Sales and New Business Development. He brings a wealth of payments industry knowledge to Mitek. And previously Mike held senior level business development roles at IBM and S1 Corporation. I view Mike's role as pivotal as we extend our partner and customer relationships to insurance and other vertical markets. Mitek has developed and patented mobile capture and data extraction software solutions and continues to lead the industry with innovations. We are investing heavily in R&D to build out our existing product roadmap, as well as bring new products to market. We are on track with the latest release of our mobile photo bill pay product to our pilot banks and remain confident that this product is our second killer app. As a leader in mobile imaging, we've helped hundreds of corporations like Chase and Progressive engage in a new and powerfully unique way with their consumers. This is a phenomenon driven by the extraordinary consumer experience that Mitek enables. The delight to consumers is almost magical, as depicted in the latest national TV advertisement from Chase, in which the mother and daughter captured a lion with a snap of a smartphone camera, and sent it to the bank instead of the check. This kind of whimsical marketing has put fun back in banking and the demand for it is growing. Research firm, Forrester, calls mobile check deposit table stakes. Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, was recently quoted counting mobile banking saying, "It's just a much more efficient and, frankly, stronger service model." This is the promise of our suite of mobile imaging applications that let consumers enroll in new services, fund their prepaid card and bank accounts, shop for new credit cards and auto insurance and pay their bills. All with a simple snap of a camera on their smartphone or tablet. And we're just scratching the surface to use our technology in ways that the consumer never realized possible. A recent survey from Gartner says that only 29% of consumers are aware of mobile check deposit. As a result, we believe that the opportunity for growth for mobile deposit and our future mobile imaging solutions is very large. Last May, we participated in the Mobile Banking Summit in San Francisco, and it was gratifying to see scores of banks and other financial institutions actively pursuing new ways to enhance their mobile strategy. In fact, multiple companies mentioned Mitek by name during their presentations as a valued technology partner. Clearly, mobile imaging is enabling the strategic layer of mobile banking applications for document processing and identity verification. It's interesting to note that according to Javelin Research, 58% of the over 10,000 U.S. financial institutions plan to deploy Mobile Remote Deposit Capture over the next 12 months. Indeed, our Mobile Deposit product has already been adopted by 25 of the top 40 banks in the United States. The 3 key drivers of our business are: one, the number of companies we signed; two, the number of mobile consumers using our product; and three, the total number of transactions being consumed. Here is the latest statistics as of June 30, 2012: first, we've crossed a new milestone of over 400 banks and financial institutions signed for a cumulative total of 408 financial institutions. And we've achieved another major milestone with a record number of 93 additions during the quarter. This includes BMO Harris bank which is the 15th largest retail bank in the U.S. Secondly, 137 banks are now live which includes Chase and Citibank, Bank of New York Mellon, PNC, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo. Notably, Wells Fargo launched in 7 locations so far, and plans to be nationwide by year end. And I'm very happy to announce a report that was published by Reuters just yesterday announcing that Bank of America plans to begin offering mobile check deposit later this week. Adoption of Mobile Deposit continues to be strong, and transaction usage grew by more than 25% compared to the prior quarter. We're focused on mobile imaging use cases that enable consumers to enroll, shop, fund and pay, but demand for our technology and our solutions is not limited to banks. Recently, we signed an agreement with Smart Tuition, an innovative company. While it's not a material deal in a financial sense, it is a consumer-based application for enrolling in K-12 tuition payment programs. That's a great example of how mobile imaging can be used to automate the enrollment process and engage and empower the consumer. This is just one of the many areas where we believe we can leverage our technology to enhance people's everyday lives. We've invested millions of dollars in R&D and many years to create and perfect our mobile imaging technology. We've created this category and our products have enabled Fortune 500 companies to provide a unique and valued service to their customers. We believe that mobile imaging use cases are virtually limitless and span multiple vertical markets. We're happy to report that Mobile Deposit adoption and launch momentum continues unabated. And we're excited about bringing our next products, Mobile Photo Bill Pay and Mobile Balance Transfer, to market over the coming weeks and months. Now I'd like to take a few minutes to talk about the litigation with USAA. First, we are determined to protect our intellectual property in defense against baseless allegations in a suit filed against Mitek by USAA. We continue to believe that USAA's suit is meritless and that our legal case is solid. We invented this technology, we have patented it, with not 1 but 5 separate patents, and we have worked hard to enable the financial industry and USAA to engage with their consumers in an important new way using our mobile imaging algorithms and inventions. As you know, on April 12, Mitek filed its own suit against USAA for patent infringement and breach of contract. We believe that USAA has infringed 5 of Mitek's patents related to advanced imaging and analytic software to authenticate and extract data from image checks and other financial documents using a smartphone or tablet. Last week, we added 2 additional claims to our case against USAA for defamation and unfair business practices. We're a group of scientists here at Mitek and engineers who formed a small technology company, worked hard over a period of years to invent this mobile imaging technology and brought it to market. We take umbrage with being unfairly attacked and maligned by an industry giant who benefited from our technology. That is simply preposterous. While we didn't choose the litigation path, we will do what is necessary to protect our rights for our customers and our shareholders, as well as our business reputation. Despite the ongoing litigation, our company remains intensely focused on the development and delivery of innovative and high-quality products. We do not expect the litigation to have any impact on our planned product offerings or on our customers. We believe that our return to revenue growth this quarter, along with our blue-chip customer roster of over 400 financial institutions, including 93 newly signed banks are evidence of our continued positive momentum. And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Russ Clark to review the financial statement. Russ?