NEWMARK SECURITY PLC (NWT) — Interim Results

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the NEWMARK SECURITY PLC interim results investor presentation. On the right hand corner of your screen. Please just 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 we'll publish those responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, as usual, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from Newmark SECURITY PLC. Mary Claire, good morning. Good morning. Thank you very much. So I am Mary Claire Dweck, CEO of Newmark Security, and I'm joined here by our CFO, Paul. Today, we'll present a handful of slides that will give you a preview of how we are framing our plan to accelerate growth over the next five years together with our interim results at the end of twenty twenty five half year. Just wanna start with, despite the first half loss that we certainly anticipated due to ourselves being second half weighted and investment in strategic initiatives, we are looking forward to a very positive EBITDA for the year. Well, for those of you who don't know us, a good place to begin is in the context of what we do. So let me describe the problem we solve. The common challenge for our primary clients, both human capital management, HCM software partners, and enterprise, is to manage their resources more effectively. As you're aware, HCM software partners is a major growth category that we're investing heavily in putting technology at the heart of this opportunity, increasingly with the help...