Good day. Welcome to the Super Group results for the first quarter of 2023. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing Star, then zero on your telephone keypad. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press Star, then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press Star, then two. Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Lisa Kampf, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Morning, everyone, thank you for joining our call today to discuss Super Group's results for the first quarter of 2023. During this call, we may make comments of a forward-looking nature that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed further in our SEC filings that could cause our actual results to differ materially from our historical results or from our forecasts. We assume no responsibility to update forward-looking statements other than as required by law. Additionally, on today's call, we may refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures are in addition to and not a substitute for measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. We have provided a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP figures in the press release issued earlier today and available on the investor relations page of Super Group's website. In addition, we will speak to our financial results and metrics for the first quarter of 2023 in 2 parts, highlighting our profitable and cash generative global business separately from our investment in the US. This aligns with the annual guidance that we have provided for 2023 and is consistent with both how we view our business internally and how we will report going forward. We recommend that investors refer to our supplementary presentation posted to our website. On this call, I am joined by Neal Menashe, Chief Executive Officer, Richard Hasson, President and COO, and Alinda van Wyk, Chief Financial Officer. Now I would like to turn the call over to Neal. Thank you, Lisa. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Earlier today, we reported strong first quarter financial results with net revenues excluding the U.S. of EUR 332 million and Operational EBITDA of EUR 51 million. Separately for the U.S., our net investment for the quarter was EUR 17 million. Year-over-year comparisons for our non-U.S. business are difficult this quarter for three reasons. Firstly, our business in Canada in quarter one 2022 was still benefiting from COVID lockdowns. Secondly, in 2023, many of the local currencies in which we trade, including the Canadian dollar, depreciated meaningfully against the euro, our reporting currency. Thirdly, our brand fee has materially reduced. It's helpful to look at our results sequentially to appreciate the progress we have made. Net revenue for the Q4 of 2022 was boosted by the FIFA and Cricket World Cup. It's an achievement that Q1 of 2023 managed to have additional net revenue growth on top of that. Even more impressive, our Operational EBITDA increased significantly, up 21% from the Q4 of 2022. Alinda will go through our financial results for the first quarter in greater detail in a moment. Richard is here with us today to provide you with an update on the U.S. Our efforts to strengthen the company continue, as evidenced by our ongoing discussions with our software partner, Apricot, towards bringing even more of our tech stack in-house and our continuous evaluation of growth opportunities in current and new markets around the world. Operationally, we remain focused on achieving economies of scale in a targeted manner towards our goal of a medium-term Operational EBITDA margin in excess of 20%. Our largest expense line item is marketing. Currently, we are spending 27% of net revenue to support the long-term growth of the business. This is a conscious decision to spend more than the sector average, and I'm watching it very carefully to ensure we are seeing returns. On economies of scale, I want to point out this is a market-by-market objective. Key costs such as regulatory, staffing, and technology do not generally rise directly in line with revenue. As revenue grows, disciplined spending ensures that operating leverage kicks in. This is key to our business model. Once our fixed costs are covered, then incremental revenue is far more profitable and significantly improves our EBITDA margin. I'm very pleased to say this was well illustrated in the month of March, where record numbers for customers, holds, and net revenue resulted in Operational EBITDA margin of over 20% for the month. So far this year, we have set multiple records, one after the other, for daily active customers, with March constantly breaking the monthly record when it exceeded 3.8 million for the month. For the quarter, average active customers significantly increased to 3.5 million per month from 2.6 million in the prior quarter, a 34% increase. Financially, we remain strong and flexible. There is EUR 246 million of unrestricted cash on our balance sheet, which we're using to support the expansion of our U.S. footprint and other markets, as well as for gaining further control of our tech stack in support of the continued growth of our business. In addition to this, our consistent profitability and cash generation also allow us to explore potential M&A opportunities as well as flexibility in returning capital to shareholders. Now turning over to some of our key markets. Firstly, after much anticipation, the U.K.'s proposed gambling reforms were released at the end of April. We are pleased that this result in a further clarity for the industry and a level playing field for all operators. Super Group took steps early on to proactively prepare for this, so expect that the proposed reforms will have minimal impact on our U.K. business. Overall, for Super Group, European markets are looking up. The U.K. in particular, has seen strong growth in Betway as well as Spin, which has benefited from the inclusion of Jumpman Gaming. In Canada, revenue has reduced year-on-year due to unfavorable currency fluctuations and the short-term impact of Ontario's regulatory transition. Trends in Ontario are encouraging. Our Canada business remains robust and profitable, including in Ontario. Africa too continues to perform very well. The African markets are a great example of where we have quickly realized marketing spend efficiencies led by our worldwide global brand awareness for Betway, complemented by targeted localized marketing. This has resulted in multiple new records in customer numbers in both sports betting and casino and record net revenue and EBITDA despite negative currency fluctuation. Africa's strong performance highlights how our business continues to evolve and diversify. Together with growth in Europe, this has given us an improved global geographic balance. Overall, I'm very happy with the competitive progress globally, and I'm proud of the record results they achieved in March. All of which, I'm pleased to say, were exceeded in the month of April, even with one day less in the month. I'll now turn the call over to Richard to discuss our progress in the U.S. Thank you, Neal. Good day, everyone. The acquisition of DGC closed at the beginning of quarter one, and we're very excited about the opportunity that the U.S. presents. To recap, the Betway brand is currently operating in eight states, with market access into up to a further five. The size of the U.S. market, a TAM of $54 billion, is of course very attractive and one that is way too big to be ignored. With DGC still in its early stages, the next three-five years are going to require significant investment, including an estimated EUR 70 million for this year and around EUR 80 million for next year. Some of you will look at this investment and ask if we have ever spent that much in a single market. We don't look at it that way. For us, each state is a market, and in that context, this is quite normal and exciting for us. Why? Because this investment is very manageable for us and easily funded by our existing cash flow. This sort of expansion on a market-by-market, state-by-state basis is how we've grown this business for more than 20 years, and we see it as a great opportunity for upside on top of our highly profitable existing global business. We will only enter states where we see a realistic path to growth and profitability. States that offer both online sports betting and gaming are more attractive to us, and we continue to bias towards those. Same as we do everywhere else around the world, we will continuously evaluate our returns and will not be afraid to pull out of markets where this path is not clear. Around the globe, casino is a key focus for us. It makes up over 60% of our revenues, and we will maintain this focus in the U.S., implementing the same dual offering strategy wherever we can. We have therefore secured second iGaming skins in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where we aim to launch our leading skin brand, JackpotCity, later this year. For now, within DGC, the focus is very much internal and on our existing states, with a key priority being migration onto the Betway Global Technology Platform. During this time, we expect to keep localized marketing relatively small and ensure that the per state unit economics stack up. On a state-by-state basis, from the date when we roll out our Betway global tech and begin significant investment into marketing, we expect that we will need about 18 months in order to fully assess viability for that state. We aim to reach breakeven within another 18 months. Overall, as of now, we expect our first EBITDA positive quarter for the U.S. to be in 2026, we expect 2027 to be our first EBITDA positive year. Of course, should the footprint of live or accessible states expand, these numbers will change accordingly. That takes me to our investment thesis. In our view, the best way to see DGC is essentially as a call option on the U.S. Our global business will continue to run as before. We expect it to continue to grow and to generate cash, the DGC acquisition is an opportunity for upside on top of that. We've shown all over the world that we do not require significant market share to achieve profitability, the U.S. is no different. We look forward to updating you through our journey. I will now turn the call over to Alinda, who will discuss our financial results in more detail. Thank you, Richard. I will now take you through our financial results for the quarter, where we have seen continued momentum from Q4 last year. I will start by discussing our global financial results separate from our investment into the U.S. Excluding U.S. results, total revenue for the quarter was EUR 332 million. Net revenue, which does not include brand license fees, grew to EUR 321 million, a 2% increase from last year. As Neal mentioned, the current quarter is not directly comparable to the first quarter of 2022 due to COVID, currency fluctuations, and a tariff change in our brand fees. Sportsbook revenue increased by EUR 9 million in the first quarter, growing 8%. In casino, net revenue decreased by EUR 3 million or 1%. The key drivers behind the overall increase in net revenue includes a stronghold boosted by a record month in March, following the worst sports hold during February, strong customer acquisition and retention in Africa, and continued positive growth in most European markets, including the U.K., which was positively impacted by the addition of Jumpman Gaming. This growth was partially offset by lower revenues from Canada due to the Canadian dollar weakening against the euro, as well as Ontario's ongoing transition to a regulated market. The impact of the euro strengthening against other local currencies that we trade in and lower revenue from the APAC region. Customer numbers for sportsbook increased 53% compared to Q1 of 2022. We are pleased to see this continued momentum of strong customer numbers from the fourth quarter of 2022, with month-on-month growth during the first quarter of this year. This was largely due to effective marketing strategies, strong payback results, and good in- retention initiatives. Even though we saw a slight decline in the casino revenue numbers, our customer growth remains impressive, up 45% in the first quarter compared to last year. The increase in customer numbers was due to strong acquisition of new customers, which grew 29% year-on-year, helped by solid retention marketing and a good uplift in Canada, including Ontario. Looking at the bottom line, we achieved Operational EBITDA for X year's business of EUR 51 million for the first quarter of 2023. Compared to the first quarter last year, Operational EBITDA was impacted by lower brand license fees, high cost of revenue, which includes regulatory fees and taxes, as well as agency fees in Ontario, and an increase in general administrative costs, which was mainly due to inflationary increases and higher infrastructure expenses. This was offset by lower and more effective levels of investment in marketing. Our marketing spend sits at 27% of net revenue, which is a result of conscious decision that we have made to invest in the long-term growth of the business. While we could reduce this marketing by 5%- 7% of net revenue, which would result in our EBITDA increasing substantially in the short term and align us much more closely with what our competitors are spending, we don't believe that this is in the best interest of our business in the long term. To contextualize this, if we would reduce our marketing in quarter one by an amount equivalent to 5% of net revenue, an additional EUR 16 million would have dropped to the bottom line. EBITDA margin was over 15% for the quarter. We remain focused on both growth and cost-saving strategies to drive margins back to higher levels in 2023 and beyond. Our EBITDA margin has already improved sequentially from 13% in the fourth quarter of last year, despite some customer-friendly sports results and early days in the delivery of our expected cost efficiencies. In March, we comfortably proved how operating leverage work in our business, reaching a level of scale that resulted in an EBITDA margin of greater than 20% for the month. Turning now to our U.S. business. Our net investment for the quarter was EUR 17 million. Funding our U.S. expansion from internal reserves remained very manageable for us, and we ended the quarter with an unrestricted cash balance of EUR 246 million. Our balance sheet continues to remain strong following the acquisition of DGC. The acquisition resulted in DGC debt of $129 million coming onto the Super Group's consolidated balance sheet, which is directly offset with a restricted cash balance of the same value and has been accounted for separately since we announced the DGC acquisition. We are in the process of settling this debt with the restricted cash, and the balance sheet will therefore remain debt-free. To conclude, here's how I think about it. Our record-breaking numbers of customers is one of our key engines for revenue. We continue to invest for growth in the business around the world, and driving cost efficiencies throughout the business remains a key focus. We are therefore confident in our outlook for the year, and we are reaffirming our guidance for both the U.S. and non-U.S. business for 2023. I will now turn the call back to Neal. Thank you. Thanks, Alinda van Wyk. Super Group has delivered another solid quarter and remains profitable and financially strong. We have many avenues of future growth across the globe to be excited about. To wrap up, let me summarize where we are. March was a record month, and April was even better. Key global markets such as Canada, Africa, and Europe are growing well in their local currency, some of them really strongly. Our U.S. business is developing according to plan. It's a marathon, not a sprint, and we've got the legs for it. We have a firm hand on our cost synergy and operating leverage benefits are coming through strongly, as we saw in March and again in April. We'll continue to optimize our tech, which will add to our upside in the long run as we take better controls of products and cost. Overall, we have done well in this quarter, and I'm optimistic for the future. I'm a glass half empty kind of CEO. I don't waste any time looking back at what we have achieved. I'm far more interested in all the work that we still have to do and the great opportunities that lie ahead of us. I'll now turn the call over to the operator to open the call up for questions. Operator? We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. If you're using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question comes from Jed Kelly with Oppenheimer. Please go ahead. Hey, great. Thanks for taking my question. Just first one on the outlook on the guidance. You're reaffirming your guidance. If I understand you correctly, April was a record month. Can you kind of tell us how May is trending? I mean, do you expect to see sequential growth in 2Q? Then on the U.S. just, you know, we are seeing sort of market access, you know, the cost for market access go down. We are seeing some consolidation. Just when you think about the U.S., I guess the one thing to highlight, while it's 50 different regulations with all the states, how do you think about competing against the players that can actually leverage brand advertising and amortize that spend across 50 states as you think about it? Thank you. Thanks, Jed. I'll start off, then I'll hand over to Richard for US question. April 100% looks really good and promising as a good start for quarter 2. May is not looking bad either. I mean, regarding our guidance, we feel comfortable that obviously these targets that we set ourselves is going to be reached, but it's really only four months into the year, very early to say, you know, to make a projection about, you know, the quarter 3, Q3 results and then there beyond. It's looking promising. Thanks, Alinda. Hi, Jed. Onto the U.S., the way we look at it is applying the same toolkit that we have applied to other markets across the world. In terms of our branding, we have, as you know, the single global online sports betting brand, Betway, where we have the ability to spend for global eyeballs and then actually amortize that spend across the world. Not just in the U.S., and then of course similar to other markets complementing that global spend with very localized marketing. Got it. Then on a follow-up, just on the regulatory front, I know last year there was some regulatory headwinds with Germany and the Netherlands. I mean, as we think about this year in terms of like the comping, are the regulatory comps... You know, you have what's going on in the U.K., but will the regulatory comps be easier or tougher this year? Thanks. Well, firstly, Germany obviously has been dealt with, and there still are casino licenses which you can now apply for. Netherlands, we are still waiting for our license there. Compared to the other markets with the U.K. White Paper and the other markets, it's no different to how it's been before. I think actually this year has got a brighter outlook, you know? In the U.K., as I mentioned on earlier, it's about we just wait for the final legislation to come, but we're in a very good position. Thank you. The next question comes from Bernie McTernan with Needham & Company. Please go ahead. Great. Thank you for taking the questions. Maybe just to start following up on Jed's last question, the really strong results in March and into April. Anything to peel back the onion in terms of what's from a, you know, either geographic standpoint or a product standpoint in terms of what's driving the strong results? as Alinda mentioned, it's good customer numbers. It's obviously good sports hold and our continued focus on casino. What happens in these businesses, when all of these things come together, your revenue obviously increases, and then you get this huge operating leverage. That is key to what we saw in March and are seeing in April. For us, it's about every country making up our global, our global portfolio, call it our global revenue. It's about each country now being operationally, most of them, a vast majority of them being operationally profitable per region. It means every extra bit of revenue we get is at very high margins. This is key, key to our business. It's true to each of our countries. Understood. Following up on the comments on the medium-term Operational EBITDA getting to 20% or above, how much of that is just sales and marketing coming down versus revenue growth versus U.S. investment coming down? Just trying to think about some of the large moving pieces of being able to get there, especially in the context of March being above 20%. Yeah. Thanks, Bernie. That is why, you know, I tried to put in a illustrative kind of scenario to say if we cut potentially 5%, that will straight go down to the bottom line. That's not how we run our business, and that's what we're trying to illustrate. We don't want to cut marketing for short-term gain. We wanna really make sure that we hone this marketing spend, and reinvest, like Neal just said, in countries where we can see the returns, reinvest in those countries for the long term gain. Understood. Just last one for me. The comments of getting to first quarter profitability in the U.S. in 2026 and a full year basis in 2027, what does that contemplate from a regulatory standpoint or market access, in terms of, you know, new states coming online? Hey, Bernie. Those timelines are based on our current geographic footprint, plus an additional state to be launched, in the next three months. As we said, as additional markets, come online, we will reassess that, again, very much on a state-by-state basis and finding the path to profitability in each of those states. Understood. Thank you all. The next question comes from Michael Graham with Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead. Hey, thanks. just on the, on the customer growth, you know, it was a really strong growth, you know, sort of unseasonably, I guess. I know you mentioned that you had some more efficient marketing, but can you just maybe go a level deeper there? Were there geographies where you saw, like, good customer growth? you know, what did you unlock on the, on the marketing front? you know, and did the customers come, you know, sort of in a linear fashion during the quarter? Or just, you know, how should we think about what you were able to accomplish there? Hi, Michael. Alinda van Wyk here. Briefly, we share the high-level geographic growth on the website, which you can just go and review there as well. It's predominantly. I mean, the marketing strategies is starting to work because I've also mentioned like the newly acquired customers is also growing, which is a good element for us, up to 29% casino. The growth is in jurisdictions where there is, as the market is changing and the world is changing, it's higher volume customers, but with lower value input. We've seen it in Europe and Africa predominantly. U.K., obviously as part of Europe, that's mainly due to the responsible gaming measures. We've also added Jumpman, which has a whole different business module with more recreational, lower value kind of customer base. Just a big comparative between quarter one, 2022 to 2023 is remember in quarter one we had Ontario as a non-regulated part of our business, which is obviously transitioning. Had an impact also on the numbers. The growth is forthcoming in the, in the customer base. Okay. Thank you. I actually wanted to ask about Ontario just, you know, sort of a year into it. Can you comment on, like, how that's going, in particular, how the competitive landscape is shaping up for you there? Yeah. Sure. It's Neal here. Again, it's optimization of our customer experience. We feel we still making good money in Ontario. We are very happy with how we've transitioned there. It's been since August and September last year. It's still six to eight month, nine months, 10 months. It's making good progress. For us it's all about similar to other markets. We understand regulation, we understand what the product has to do in these regulated markets, and we compete with everyone across the globe, so Ontario is no different for us. All right. Thanks a lot. This concludes our question and answer session and the Super Group results for the first quarter of 2023. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.