 At Involta, we drive innovation at the edge. Our mission is rooted in partnership across all levels, from people to process to technology. We've been orchestrating IT transformation for nearly two decades, delivering cybersecurity and managed services for hybrid, edge and multi-cloud projects and environments. Involta's business was built, delivering to the most complex and demanding industries, enabling us to serve mission-critical applications for enterprises of all kinds. Aloha and welcome back to JSA-TV Live, the newsroom for tech, telecom and data center professionals. I'm Buffy Herakides, coming to you live from PTC 23, the biggest PTC to date, and we are here wrapping up the final day. The floor is still buzzing, the sun is still shining here in sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. But joining me today, we have Jim Buie. He is the president and CEO of Involta. Jim, welcome back to JSA-TV Live here in Hawaii. Aloha, glad to be with you again. This is great. What a great conference. Yeah, it's been a great conference. I mean, we've seen news from Involta like all over the news screens here at PTC 23 yesterday. Why don't you tell viewers a little bit more about that news, the appointment of a new CFO for Involta? Yeah, so Carl Gorlich, who's been in the industry for quite a while, he's a great operational background, great financial background, but really for Involta instrumental, we, right going into COVID a couple of years ago, he was responsible for putting a new debt facility in place. And then most recently, our new equity partner, Carlisle, which we're celebrating our one-year anniversary with Carlisle. But Carl Gorlich was instrumental in that, so I'm so proud of him. You know, in a tight labor market like we have, you want to keep your talent. And Carl's one of those guys that is very talented and will help us drive growth in the company. Yeah, well, that's exciting. Congrats, Carl, if you're watching. Congrats on the appointment of becoming the CFO of Involta. And congrats on the one-year anniversary of the Carlisle investment. I mean, I can't believe it's been a year. I know. It seems like yesterday we were launching that big exciting news. Yeah. So for viewers that might not know, I mean, I know we dived right into an announcement about Carl because it's been everywhere here at PTC23. Why don't you tell viewers a little bit more about Involta that might not already know? You bet. Yeah, so we, first I should say, we've been in business now for 15 years as a business. And we are a secondary market edge data center in services companies. So we help companies and we're targeted toward middle market enterprise and large enterprise. And we really specialize in helping companies with their infrastructure needs as well as their digital transformation and the services to support that. So we have really grown the business. I think we're our niche and our expertise really comes in for our clients. We've grown up on the most complex verticals. So we specialize in health care manufacturing and financial services. We've really learned from those industries how to serve all of the enterprise, middle market and large enterprise in a quality way, whether it's compliance, cybersecurity, or just secure and reliable infrastructure. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you guys are like the pioneers of edge. I mean, I think you kind of help back a little bit on that one by your... Copyright that term at Involta. We should. We definitely should. So amazing things coming ahead for 2023 for Involta. We were just kind of talking about that. But we take a step back to 2022. Yeah. There was some big news and expansion of your Independence data center in the Cleveland market. So I want to talk a little bit about that and what's going on in the Cleveland market. I mean, it's definitely exploding there. So Cleveland's a great market. You know, we've been there for a long time and we're over... You talk about Ohio, middle of the country. We have over 10 megawatts of data center space there now. So that was a big milestone for us. But when I think about Cleveland and its proximity to the East Coast and just other major markets, it's a great disaster recovery spot. You know, and I think what I see with Cleveland and really Northeast Ohio, first I should say, we're the only company that's providing submilisecond fiber connectivity as well as direct liquid cooling for high performance compute, super computing identity. So I think we have a nice niche in that market. And those types of workloads and applications in the middle of the country where it's, you know, it's a great place to have your infrastructure and your data. I think we're going to continue to see great growth and even the secular trends. Northeast Ohio, we're working with the economic development teams to bring manufacturing back on shore. Cleveland's a natural landing spot for those types of businesses. And then Volta wants to be there to help solve those problems. Well, I mean, it definitely was an exciting year for in Volta in 2022, probably the biggest year ever in the company's record breaking year. Yeah. And now we're heading into 2023. What are some of the trends that you're seeing? Yeah, one of our thought leaders here in 2020 for 2023, especially when it comes to like sustainability and yeah, it was some insight there, Jim. Now a spot on, I think, like we said, high density application so driven by AI, ML, AR, VR, those types of things we're seeing really high density. So being able to cool, you know, chipsets are hotter and you got to be able to handle that in your data center. So that's that's primary trend we're seeing. I would say peering and connectivity, which we talked about, you know, being in the edge for a long time now, 15 years. Connectivity is really important in low latency matters and then sustainability. I mean, not only, you know, do we want as a company be a good corporate citizen, but really our customers at this point in the industry, they're demanding sustainability and we're glad to be on the forefront of that. Yeah, I mean, we are so glad to have you as part of the greener data mission. Hashtag greener data and Volta is definitely a member of our movement. So we're happy to have you involved in the greener data movement and our greener data directory as well that we just launched here at PTC. So I know you're heading on a panel soon today. Yeah. Why don't you give us some information about what you plan and speaking on there? Yeah, I think we'll cover some of those topics. You know, some of the trends in the industry really see what problems enterprises are facing and how our industry is solving for them. So I'm really proud to be part of that panel. I think enterprises continue to face what I call the triple squeeze. So companies, CEOs of enterprises have to deal with inflation and a tight labor market, you know, which talent is something that our industry can bring to them and then supply chain issues and using technology to solve those problems. So a lot of the panel will be talking about how are we as an industry helping enterprise in those areas and really, you know, if you think of what you kind of miss, you believe it's a slow down or full recession or a two to three year slow down. That's where our industry can really help enterprise. I agree. Well, we're excited to see you on that panel coming soon. So if you're here at PTC, be sure to check that out. It's coming up otherwise for in Volta in 2023. Anything else you want to share? Yeah, you know, growth. We're going to dominate our existing markets. We're going to expand to one or two new markets a year. And we have a proven capability for that, adding some new products and services to help these enterprises and really at the end of the day, just enabling our clients to really change their worlds, whether it's patient outcomes in health care or improving the supply chain for manufacturing or financial services, getting those closer customers. We just want to enable our clients to change their world. So excited to do that in 23. We're excited to be here as a partner of Involtas for so long now going on three years. So thank you so much for your happy three year anniversary. Yes, three years for JSA and a Volta and one year anniversary of the big news that came out of Involtas last year with the Carlisle acquisition. Congrats to Carl. Where can viewers go if they want to learn more Jim about Involtas? Yeah, www.involta.com and be sure to follow them on LinkedIn and Twitter and Facebook as well. www.involta.com. Thank you viewers for tuning in. Thank you Jim for joining us for another fabulous episode of JSA TV live from PTC 23. Happy networking. At Involtas, we drive innovation at the edge. Our mission is rooted in partnership across all levels from people to process to technology. We've been orchestrating IT transformation for nearly two decades, delivering cybersecurity and managed services for hybrid edge and multi cloud projects and environments. Involtas business was built delivering to the most complex and demanding industries, enabling us to serve mission critical applications for enterprises of all kinds.