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David, thanks for joining us today. It is my honor and pleasure to be with you.

And it is my honor and pleasure to have you, my friend. You come highly recommended by our mutual

friend, Mike Reddington. I already know this is going to be good. Well, thank you very much.

I look forward to it to you. Perfect. Well, thank you very much. I look forward to it, too.

Perfect. Well, how would you get it started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Okay, great. Well, my name is David Matsumoto. I'm born and raised Honolulu, Hawaii, way back when.

And I was raised in Hawaii until I graduated high school. I went to university at the University of Michigan,

where I saw snow for the first time in my life, which is also an interesting negotiation discussion.

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