Softcat plc (SCT) Q4 2023 Earnings Call

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Softcat full year results call. My name is Seb and I'll be the operator for your call today. If you would like to ask a question on today's call you may do so by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad or press star 2 to withdraw your question. I will now hand the floor to Graham Charlton, CEO, to begin the call. Please go ahead. Thank you Seb and good morning everyone and welcome to the Softcat results call for the year-ended 31st of July, 2023. Thank you very much for taking the time to join us. We really appreciate your interest in the company. I'm Graham Charlton, the company chief exec, and I'm joined today on the call by Katie Mecklenburg, who's our CFO, and you'll hear from her shortly. But as a brief reminder, this is my first results call as chief exec, having taken over the reins from Graham Watt in August. And that's following my nearly nine years with the company, previously as CFO. And Katie joined the team in June and is settling brilliantly into Softcat life. But as usual, we'll start, and if we can turn on to slide two, please, with a brief overview of who we, Softcat, are for those of you who might be less familiar with the company. And we are the largest provider of cybersecurity cloud and IT infrastructure solutions in the UK with a tremendously broad and well-diversified offering across cybersecurity, cloud, but also data center, networking, and workplace technology to name just some. The vast majority of our 2,300 people are based in the UK and Ireland, but we do now have a growing base in the US just outside of Washington as well. which today comprises nine people and two people out in the Far East, too. We also have branches in Australia and in mainland Europe. Our gross income was 2.6 billion last year, and w...