Brandon Vazquez
William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division

Hi, everybody. Thanks for joining us this afternoon. My name is Brandon Vazquez. For those of you haven't met, I'm one of the medical device analysts here at William Blair. We're excited to have Medline with us here. But first, I am required to inform you that if you would like a complete list of research disclosures or potential conflicts of interest, please visit our website at williamblair.com.

So we have with us Mike Drazin, CFO of Medline, and also Amanda Laabs, EVP of Chief Product Officer. And we're going to do a fireside chat here as normal when we do these fireside chats because a lot of people are new to the story. I'm going to keep things pretty high level for the most part, maybe ask 1 or 2 kind of pertinent questions at some point.But Mike, maybe let's just start off let's like literally just start at the basic here, talk to us about what Medline is and give a little bit of -- I think what's interesting here, too, is that you have a very long history of building this company, what it is today. What do you do? And what was it about needing to be a private company for so long to get to where you can to do what you do today?

Michael Drazin
Chief Financial Officer

So Medline is the largest provider -- largest manufacturer and distributor of medical surgical supplies. We've been around since 1966. And our mission really is