Peter Leys
Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is now open. Please go ahead
Thank you, Jody. And thank you everyone for joining us today for our third quarter earnings call. Slide three of the deck has the agenda for today. First, I will briefly discuss the highlights of our third quarter. I will then hand over to Fried, who will give you some more detail on our more strategic achievements over the last three months, including our acquisition of OrthoView. Fried will then turn the call to Frederic, who will give you more detail on our financial performance and who will also give you an updated guidance for 2014, and finally, I will come back to discuss some of our major operational achievements of Q3 and also to give you some information about our priorities for the remainder of the year and after all that, we will be glad to answer any questions that you may have. If you would kindly turn to slide four, now if we look back at our first full quarter as a public company then there are at least two things that we are particularly proud of. First, during our third quarter, frankly, pretty much like during our second quarter, we executed our strategy of investing heavily in the near-term, both in research and development and in sales and marketing in order to accelerate growth and increase profitability after 2015. Second and at least as important, we are happy to report that we were able to successfully combine the execution of our strategic plan with a strong and consistent operational and financial performance and this bodes on the top, as well as on the bottomline. If you look at the topline first, our revenues, you will note that revenues increased by almost 17% to €19.8 million in Q3, that growth was driven first and foremost by a strong growth in the 3D Software Printing segment, but also by strong growth within our Industrial Production segment. If you look at the bottomline, we have an adjusted EBITDA of more than €2 million in Q3, which represents approximately 10.4% of revenues. That is lower than Q3 of last year, obviously, because of our increased spending in sales and marketing and R&D. R&D for instance increased by more than €1 million as compared to the third quarter. These are the highlights and let me now turn the call to Fried, who will discuss some of our strategic achievements over the quarter.