 Hi everyone and welcome back to JSA TV and JSA podcast where we're coming live to you today from Capacity Europe at the Intercontinental talking to leaders about the latest trends news and innovation impacting our industry and I'm happy to have Stacy Pasco VP of product for Aquacoms. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. Your role is relatively new since since Capacity last year so we wouldn't have spoken at the event at this event last year. Tell us about your role and and what it entails. Yeah so I joined Aquacoms maybe nine months ago. The business was smaller at the time really just a couple of submarine cable systems and so product wasn't something that you really needed. You've got a couple subsea systems you're selling wavelengths what can product really do but the business is looking to expand we're going into some new markets we're bringing on new cable systems we're looking to get a little bit more specific with our product portfolio to the customer's needs so they asked me to come join the team and build out a product function because they didn't have one before so that's what I've been up to for the last nine months and it's been fantastic. Yeah and so talk about that you I think you had a big announcement recently from your team from the product team so can you talk about that? Yeah so we just announced our third cable system in the transatlantic AEC3 it's a great system a nice natural complement to our existing cable systems and it really just shows our commitment to continuing to invest in the transatlantic market to create diversity for the customers and to have those big bandwidth pipes that customers increasingly need as bandwidth as you know continues to go up and up and up continues to with no end in sight no end in sight right and and something that's important I mean on that note I think a lot of people are talking in our industry with the increased need and demand for increased supply and growth of infrastructure yeah sustainability is so important can you talk about your commitment to that and what you're doing to support sustainability? Yeah when I well formerly I was a customer of Aquacoms and I admired many things about the business that made me want to join the company and one of them is the commitment to sustainability and even as a customer I didn't really see everything that they had going on now that I've joined the company it's been amazing to see the alignment that the business has with the board on sustainability being at the forefront of everything that we do it's ingrained in every single one of our KPIs for our business objectives for the year it's in our top three objectives to hit all of our sustainability metrics and KPIs so it's really nice to see that and the business does a lot of cool things that I didn't even realize before I joined like at events like this or any other conference you know you go in and you typically see a bunch of books and pens that have a brand on them and when I first joined it where's our Aquacoms books and pens what am I supposed to give out to the customers and it was well we don't do that instead instead of giving out things that might get thrown away or end up in a landfill you know these branded things uh we keep money for every customer that we meet with and then at the end of the conference we donate that to a sustainability initiative instead of having you know a bunch of little things out there that's what we do at our conferences and I thought that's just brilliant I don't know why more people don't do that it's just little stuff like that all throughout the business that really makes me feel fulfilled working at a place that puts sustainability at the front yeah the big things matter but so do the little things yeah exactly and just having that I mean yeah who needs more stuff to throw in their suitcase and then throw out when they get home exactly that's you know sort of walking your talk there makes it you know it's it's makes an impact yeah yeah that's a good example so what's the rest of the week hold for you um well meetings meetings meetings as any capacity event um it's been great to come here and meet with interviewees like you see some of the panel sessions there's been some fantastic panels this week and then one of the most excellent things about capacity Europe is that we've got our headquarters out here so we've got a huge team of folks here big team meeting tomorrow and it's just always nice to come together and see everybody yeah that's great you get sort of a sort of a double win for you yeah exactly with the team be with the industry yeah all in the same week that's great well it was really nice to chat with you this is our first time chatting hopefully we'll get to talk many more times yes in the future throughout the year maybe and and again next year when we're probably both back here yeah um anything any parting words anything you want us to watch for with aquacoms as we go into 2024 just keep an eye out we've got things moving you know i think the the opening up of a product organization within the business shows that we really are getting ready for some advancements into new marketplaces we're doing some expansions through to india that we're really excited about once those cable systems go live so you know everybody thinks about aquacoms in the transatlantic and we are excited to start kind of changing that brand around and having everybody think of aquacoms for sustainability or sorry submarine services and sustainability worldwide yeah thank you stacey it's great chatting with you and thank you viewers for tuning in here to jsa tv and jsa podcast stay tuned as we bring you news and updates from more leaders throughout the day at capacity europe happy new happy networking