 Welcome to JSA TV Extra powered by JSA. I'm coming to you live today from the floor of ITW day one first interview of the day here at National Harbor where we have a full week planned but so we haven't even gotten started yet but I wanted to introduce all of you to Macy Griffin Chief of Staff to the COO for EdgeConnex. Macy welcome. Thank you so much for having me I appreciate it. Yeah so great to chat with you we love EdgeConnex we love your team and you're you have an important role that you've just taken on I believe in January as Chief of Staff to the COO and I know you moved internationally to take this role you were in Amsterdam working with EdgeConnex how's that move been for you? Yes it's honestly been phenomenal I've had such a great opportunity moving forward I work a lot in market development right now so it's working to build and expand our global footprint for all of our data centers and with our customers specifically focusing really in on the H&PAC region trying to get our foot in the door there as well as just expanding our MIA footprint as well there's a lot going on and I think we both know digital demand is not slowing down anytime soon. Not slowing down yeah and I yeah it's been amazing to watch your your global expansion as a company for EdgeConnex and for you specifically in your role how has that how does it impact the focus that you have from a global perspective? Yeah so being in this role it's had an amazing opportunity to work with our JV partnership that we have with the Donnie Connex in India we've expanded our headquarters offices to Singapore so we get a little bit more time over in the Asian PAC region and get to see a lot new lot new companies meet a lot new customers see their demands from different regions especially from how do you handle sustainability and also climate changes and how you're designed to build to suit their needs. And so you've mentioned a few places so headquarters and new headquarters in Singapore but focus on Asia PAC obviously supported but through that and MIA so tell me a little bit about how you you know how do you divide the focus between those and and the I'm sure different levels of maturity of the teams there. Oh yeah so we are 100% customer-german we work really strategically with our customers ask them to define their needs and see what their needs are where they want to go when they want to go when they want to be live exactly what regions they want to be in so we can specifically tailor and build to suit to their needs and just expand in those markets for them. Yeah fantastic now I can't be I can't speak with someone from EdgeConnex without talking about sustainability it's so core to your business and and one of your core pillars tell me about that. Yeah so we are very very sustainable focused urban we launched in 2020 our customer planet and people sustainability strategy with this strategy we are very committed to by 2030 running a data center platform that is 100% developed and operated off of renewable energy so really really focused on that it's been especially globally expanding every region has so many new requirements they need and so we are very focused on that and a plan to provide all of that for our customers as well. Amazing yeah it's it's so inspiring obviously at JSA we we are definitely aware and keen to be part of this and we love working with companies like EdgeConnex we're so committed to to this and amazing to see the developments that have that have come through that work with your company so anything final you want to share before you head off into the into the world of ITW? No I just thank you for having this opportunity to speak with you it's been a big event and it's exciting to be here and there's lots of teams to meet and people to see and hopefully it'll be a great week. Amazing thank you okay so for our viewers who want to find out more about EdgeConnex where can they go? Ah yes you can find out more about EdgeConnex from www.edgeconnex.com or find us on LinkedIn our marketing team is amazing and we have so many different platforms and tools out there from all of our global regions. Amazing thank you so much it's been such a pleasure interviewing you what a great first interview of the show thank you for joining us thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA-TV live here from ITW see you soon