 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Okataya of JSA, and joining me here at the Chorus Communications Lounge at Channel Partners Evolution is Mr. Mark Ayat. He's the senior director of alternate channels from First Light. Mark, welcome to JSA TV. Thanks for having me here, Jamie. Appreciate it. Thanks so much for joining us. We are very excited and it's so great to have you again here on JSA TV. If you haven't seen other Mark interviews, definitely check them out. Search that. Dean would love that as well. And we are very happy to catch you up right here at Channel Partners Evolution, of course a key industry event for Channel Partner programs. So with that, do you have any news or updates you'd like to kick this off with? Yes. A lot of new news, which is a good thing, right? I suppose we should start with our new owners, Anton Infrastructure Partners. So rallying cry, very much been continued growth, continued footprint, which is an exciting time to be at First Light and for our partners as well. So and even on the product set side of the house too, a lot of times we come to these events and UCAS is a big buzzword, right? Well now we have UCAS as a product set, which is exciting. So cloud connectivity to AWS and Azure as well on the product side of the house. All huge and exciting things for us in the Channel Partner program. And then even a partner portal, which will be coming Q4 here. So that's exciting as well. So. Oh yeah, and I've been hearing about your partner portal. It's going to be very high-tech trending. Yes. And of course we should mention how First Light has been a growth story for years now, for sure, acquiring pretty much everybody. So we've got Oxford Networks, Sovereign Communications, FingerLink Technologies, thank goodness I have a little cue card here, and 186 Communications. So what does this mean for the First Light Channel program? I think it's big. Anytime you got an expanded footprint, right, an expanded product set that's certainly more opportunities for our agents out there. So I think they're excited as well. And then I think just in terms of general resources, right, we've got required some great companies, we've acquired some great people along with those companies. So I think the biggest important thing for myself is the fact that it's not just me managing the Northeast anymore, we now have a channel team managing the Northeast, which is very exciting for our partners out there. That is very cool. It's all about team and bringing that channel team in to, you know, feel that love. And the unique DNA that First Light has, I mean, really an amazing group. We've been very honored to work with you for five, six years now, and it's just been amazing. So I can testify to the quality of the team there. So looking into your crystal ball, what do you see as new developments on the rise, thinking like 2019 and beyond? You know, we've been kicking this term around of channel enablement and what exactly that means, right? So I think part of that for myself means, you know, really casting a bigger net. So really just getting the education piece out there with our existing agents, perspective agents as well, doing more webinars in 2019, more regional events with a lot of the master agencies that we do business with today, and just making sure our names at the forefront, you know, where we've been tasked with building the channel program, and that's exactly what we're going to do for 2019 as well. So I'm excited. We are excited as well. So wonderful news. Again, more of the same in terms of First Light, a growth company on the rise, one to watch. Where can our viewers who want to learn more, find out more on First Light? Firstlight.net. So, Firstlight.net, you heard it. Mark, thank you so much for joining us, and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. Happy networking.