 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Lauren Oland at JSA. Joining me today is Sam Regan business development manager at ColoATL. Welcome to JSA TV Sam. Thank you very much. Let's start by talking about ColoATL for our viewers who may not know about you. Tell us about ColoATL and what you do. ColoATL is a data center located in downtown Atlanta at 55 Marietta Street and we're uniquely positioned in the marketplace because we have connectivity for 55 and 56 Marietta Street that offers customers the ability to connect anywhere in the world and it's the the telecom hotel for Atlanta and the Southeast. Wonderful. Well I understand congratulations are in order. Congratulations on your new position with ColoATL and while you're just getting started with the company you do have a lot of experience in the industry if you could tell us about your journey over the last 20 years or so in the telecom space. Sure thank you. I started with MCI and their growth phase in the 1990s working on multiple teams with customers as diverse as Siemens AG and internet startups. I transitioned to France telecom selling to large global enterprises like Coca-Cola and spent some time at BT global services on large customers as well. Before and after BT I worked for two data center companies Internet and QTS here in the Southeast and I'm very excited to work with American Tower and ColoATL because we're building a small startup within an well-established and successful corporation. Alrighty so what are some of the things that you're looking forward to tackling in the first couple of months on the job? I'm excited with the opportunity to grow and expand ColoATL. This data center's unrivaled connectivity in the South has unique value proposition. We will be building on new sales channels and partnerships to scale growth at the same time working on the American Tower Edge data centers team to scale that portfolio as well by building new sales channels. Well Sam as many of us know Atlanta is known as one of the nation's hubs for data centers so how do you see ColoATL and its customers fitting into that picture as demand for connectivity continues to expand? Like I said before ColoATL is the epicenter for connectivity in the South. Our dense ecosystem within the building has the advantage we offer our customers. When you're a customer with us we make it simple for you to connect to anyone within our data center by not charging for cross connects and then with our personal customer service provided by our long-term employees we put customers first and they love being here at ColoATL. Sam the start of your career at ColoATL has been a little different than normal since COVID-19 you know many people are working remotely now. What have you though most enjoyed about ColoATL and the ColoATL family so far? The interview process was unique I'll say it was all video that was the first time in my career but luckily here at American Tower on ColoATL we have great tools and we use video extensively so I feel that I already know most of the team that I'll be interacting with and everyone has been welcoming and extremely helpful. Wonderful well tell us what you love most about the telecom industry you have a lot of experience in the space so what do you like most? You know for me the constant change is the exciting part. This industry has and continues to be disruptive and challenging. It really keeps you both on your toes and always learning new things. On the other hand with our hyper-connected world the demand for our services for both data centers and telecommunications continues to grow enabling us to meet the demands of our customers and stakeholders. Okay Sam so where can we go to find out more information about ColoATL? You can go to the web www.coloatl.com. Hey you heard it from Sam go check him out thank you so much Sam for joining us today and sharing with us. Thank you very much for your time I really appreciate it. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking.