Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Carl Zeiss Meditec follow-up call regarding the CEO change announcement. [Operator Instructions] Let me now turn the floor over to your host, Sebastian Frericks, Head of Investor Relations.
Sebastian Frericks
Director of Investor Relations
Welcome. Good morning, and thank you for joining this short notice call. I’m Sebastian, I’m the Head of IR at Carl Zeiss Meditec. For our U.S.-based investors and also our U.K. investors whom it is quite early today, a replay and transcript of the call will be made available quickly after we conclude here.
Surely, all of you have read our news yesterday afternoon regarding the CEO change. With today’s call, it is our goal to provide to you an outlook on how we intend to move forward in the short to mid-term with management as well on how we expect to achieve continuity and strategy in the future.
With no further ado, let me hand it over first to our CFO, Justus. In just a moment, we will also have Andreas, CEO of Zeiss Group and our designated Interim CEO as of January 1, make some comments on the situation. Afterwards, both will be available for some questions. Please note that this call will have to be concluded after about 30 to 40 minutes. So I will kindly ask you to keep questions short and
