Chairman of the Board, Amdocs Limited
Amdocs rings NASDAQ Opening Bell - Inside View
On December 16, 2014 Amdocs CEO and President Eli Gelman rang the NASDAQ opening bell. This video shows all the excitement from inside the studio in New York’s Times Square.
Transcript (5 segments)
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Jeff Larock1:37
Well, good morning everyone. My name is Jeff Larock of the Nasdaq, and we're truly excited to welcome Amdocs here to the Nasdaq MarketSite to celebrate today's Analyst Day and to ring this morning's opening bell. Now, I'd like to introduce your executive host for this morning's ceremony, our Senior Vice President, Bob McCooey.
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Bob McCooey2:01
Thanks, Jeff. Good morning, everyone. It's my great pleasure to welcome back to the Nasdaq MarketSite our great friends from Amdocs and CEO Eli Gelman, as well as other members of the management team, board members, and other distinguished guests. As Jeff said, as you prepare for an Analyst Day here at the MarketSite at the crossroads of the world, and as Eli and I were just discussing that there's only three time zones that you're not currently in, but you're really a 24/7 business, so there's no better place for you to talk about your business and for us to open the market with Amdocs than here in Times Square at the crossroads of the world, at the Nasdaq MarketSite. Welcome and thank you for joining us this morning. And there's certainly a lot to celebrate this morning. First and foremost, let me congratulate Amdocs on your successful fiscal year 2014, where you managed to continue to grow the business and develop the company, achieving a net income of $422 million on revenue of $3.56 billion. In our continued challenged economic environment globally, that is tremendous financial performance. Congratulations. It's even more important to recognize the fact that Amdocs works in a very challenging environment, not only financially but in your sector with the complexity of the projects that you're involved in, the great innovation and entrepreneurship and growth that you bring, and the dedication each and every one of those projects. We are so honored to have you as a Nasdaq-listed company. Speaking about innovation, Amdocs has made it a target of theirs to innovate and enhance the way its clients do business as a leading provider of billing and customer relationship management software and services for communications, media, and entertainment industry companies. You provide worldwide services to all of those companies. And Amdocs over the past year has successfully executed some of the industry's most complex transformation projects and entered into new domains such as radio access network optimization structure and network functions virtualization. Only recently, Amdocs' world-leading self-optimization network solution has been named Bandwidth Organization Innovation of the Year in Telecom Asia's 2014 Readers' Choice and Innovation Awards, which demonstrates Amdocs' continued leadership and innovation in the communications industry. Congratulations to you. Eli, congratulations to you especially on a recent award as you were named as number 20 of the top 100 power players in the telecommunications industry globally. And we know that this is a team effort, and we're so glad that so many of your team members have joined you here this morning. Thank you for joining us. We're honored to have Amdocs as a Nasdaq-listed company. We're proud to be your partner, working together today, driving new ideas and especially driving growth on a global basis. This morning, we're so honored to recognize you and your team and wish you continued success for many, many years in the future. Please, I'd like all of you here to join me in welcoming the CEO of Amdocs, Eli Gelman.
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Eli Gelman5:51
Good morning, everybody. Good morning, my senior management team. I'm honored to be here today, this morning, to open the trade in Nasdaq, not only on my behalf but also on behalf of my management team, my close friends at my management team, and 22,000 plus employees of Amdocs. Amdocs is an October 1st company, so we just finished the fiscal year 2014. A few weeks back, we reported close to $3.6 billion of revenue, profitable revenue, which is about six and a half percent growth year over year. This is the direct result of the ingenuity and the hard work and the dedication of all of our employees. It's not a single man show; it's actually a teamwork, and I really recognize the team today and really thank you for all your efforts and your ingenuity, your camaraderie, and your dedication every day of the week. I want to recognize that to Nasdaq today and thank you for having us. It's a great honor to be here. The company exists for 32 years; for an information technology company, it's a long time. We've been public in New York, changing the beginning since '98, but now we landed eventually where we belong, which is in Nasdaq. We are an advanced technology company, and as such, we belong here. We produce the most sophisticated software and the services that go along with it to serve the communication industry around the world. That is to say, we provide software that covers everything that the telephone company does, regardless if it's a wireless, cable, broadband, or anything else. Any touch point that the service provider would have would actually use Amdocs software behind it. We are proud in our position and our strong position in the market, and we look forward optimistically but also with a lot of caution towards FY 15. With that, I really want to thank you again for having us. Thank you very much, and thank you for the team.
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Bob McCooey8:04
I'd like to congratulate you on all those successes. We hope in 2015 to have you achieve even greater heights. I'd like to thank you for asking us to open the bell.
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Unknown8:52
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