 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Noland here in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii at PTC20. Joining me now is Lee Kessler, Chief Commercial Officer at Vantage Data Centers. Welcome, Lee. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Let's talk about your big year last year, 2019s. A lot of growth, a lot of success. Tell our viewers about it. 2019 was actually a very pivotal year for Vantage. Vantage was primarily a West Coast operator with a Silicon Valley campus and then also a small deployment in Quincy. When we were bought by Digital Bridge in March of 2017, a two-year plan was put in place to find five to six markets in North America and make us a North America brand by March of 2020. Well, we actually made that goal and thanks to a lot of hard work from not only the existing management team that's been growing, but a lot of the new employees that we brought on, we achieved that goal, but we still got a lot more to come. What is that growth from your company? Say about where the industry is headed and maybe trends that you're noticing that you're picking up on that you want to share with our viewers? Sure. I think the majority of the data center industry has primarily been around network interconnection, which is a reason why we're at an event like PTC and we're a data center hyper scale wholesale provider. We don't specialize in network or any kind of care and feeding of computers, but the industry itself has a very, very large base of folks that do and that industry has been growing. What's happened is as that demand continues to scale, wholesale providers like ourselves or like my predecessor, Dupont Faber's technology are valuable in that if you take care of your own computers and you can manage your own network and you don't want to spend a couple hundred million dollars for a data center, you look to a player like a vantage and we're very focused in that regard. Let's talk about sustainability. It's a critical component in the data center space. Tell us how vantage data centers is filling that void, bridging that gap. So our employee base as a whole has primarily been in California and with that there is a very large movement towards sustainability and caring for the environment. Certainly some of the things that have happened around the electrical utility grids having problems or the use of water, like in South Africa there's no water, right? But you still have a heavy population that needs data center space and vantage is not there but we look at those events and decided that we as a company we're going to commit to very low or no water usage and we were going to deploy resources on the campus that allowed us to use renewables versus carbon generated energy. Okay, let's get a little personal. It's a family affair in the data center industry for your family. You've got a lot of members in the industry itself. Tell us about that and why is everybody drawn to it? It is an interesting industry and my wife Christy was with all the way through an exodus to a century link retirement was working in the eastern United States managing service delivery. So she was the smart one. She was the engineer and the operations person. But I think being around the industry and we have four kids, two of them, Andrew Kessler who's with Edge Connect. I gave you a mention and Samantha Booth who actually works for JSA and you have a large team found this industry to be interesting and I'll tell you I'm very proud because not only the time that Christy and I spent in the industry but this industry changes every two years. So if you want to be in a dynamic industry and you want to be able to make a living and you want to be around things that are truly going to change the world then I suggest you follow mom and dad. And we love Sam too. So tell us where folks can learn more about vantage data centers and news coming up. Where can our viewers go? Online, website, social media? Yep, you can follow us on all the social media. We've got Twitter and LinkedIn feeds and also you can go to our website. It's vantage-dc.com and I would suggest you know please go do that and follow us. We're very serious. All the employees that work for us are very committed to making a difference in what we are working on in this industry and enabling technology to really make the world a better place and I'm very excited about it. Wonderful. Thank you for joining us. It's so nice having you. Thank you very much. And thank you for viewing JSA TV and JSA Podcast. Happy networking.