Feb 26, 2019 / 08:30PM GMT
Erik Loren Suppiger - JMP Securities LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst
So thank you all for joining, very good crowd. Appreciate you attending. I'm Erik Suppiger, the Security and Networking analyst for JMP. And for this section -- this session, we have SolarWinds. To my right is Kevin Thompson, CEO. And I'm going to kick it off with some questions here, but I do invite you all to feel comfortable asking any questions as we would love to take care of any concerns or questions that you have.
Questions and Answers:
Erik Loren Suppiger - JMP Securities LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research AnalystSo SolarWinds completed its IPO, I think, in October last year. Why don't you give us a little bit of the background on SolarWinds leading up to the IPO and just how you went through that transition?
Kevin B. Thompson - SolarWinds Corporation - President, CEO & Director
Sure, for those who may not have been following us, we went private in February 2016 and really spent 2.5 years