MERCIA ASSET MANAGEMENT PLC (MERC) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the MERCIA ASSET MANAGEMENT PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in a listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. And then I'd like to hand you over to Mark Payton, CEO. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, and good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for your attention today to MERCIA's interim results for the financial year 2025. I'm Mark Payton, CEO, cofounder of MERCIA, a broad background in commercialization of tech and innovation with a heavy focus on life science and life science investment. Yes. Good afternoon, everyone. I joined MERCIA just over ten years ago to float the business with Mark when there was just a small handful of us. Thank you, Martin. And, actually, yeah, this is very much a milestone for us, this ten year journey. So we have been listed now for ten years, and some of this presentation will speak to that journey and what we've accomplished over that period. We'll also talk about performance, give a performance overview, the model that we operate, and, of course, the three year strategic plan that we're on, MERCIA '27, and this is the six first six months into that. You'll hear from Martin on the financial results, then the progress and the drivers and levers that we can pull to accelerate value within MERCIA, a broad outlook, and, of course, take any ...