DroneShield Limited (DRO) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning everyone and welcome to DroneShield's first quarter 26 4C results. It's a pleasure to be speaking with you this morning. My name is Angus Bean. I'm the CEO and Managing Director for DroneShield. I've got with me Josh Balot who's our Head of Investor Relations and Strategy and we're pleased to present our results to you this morning. Firstly, many of you have seen the news. Droneshield completed a leadership transition in the last couple of weeks of both our CEO, Oleg Vornik, and our chair. We announced to the market that our chair, after 10 years, Peter James, would be not standing for re-election, and we have had the appointment for election. Our incoming chair, Hamish McLennan, The news of this leadership transition has been received very well and I'd like to thank the whole 500 staff of DroneShield for their support during the last two weeks as well as our investors, various stakeholders and our partners around the world in the support of this transition. We'd also like to invite you to attend or join online our AGM at the end of May and we look forward to having another update of the business at that time. I'd like to also touch on what I've been up to in the first two weeks as CEO of DroneShield. Many of you have seen me in the past over the last 10 years in previous roles as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer and it's a pleasure and an honour to step into the CEO role. In my first two weeks, it's been about listening. It's been about speaking with our team, understanding what they need, what their challenges are, and making sure that we're all working together. DroneShield is now a sizable global entity, and making sure that the team are moving together is a core part of my role. We've also been speaking to shareholders, understandi...