 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals, and JSA Radio, the voice for tech and telecom on iHot Radio. I'm James Scott-O-Kataya of JSA. Welcome here, Mr. Richard Lukich. He is the senior managing director and founder of Bank Street. Rich, welcome to JSA. It's my pleasure to be here. And we're here in lovely Honolulu, PTC 2017. Are viewers who may not already know, and I'm pretty sure they probably do, but can you tell us a little bit about Bank Street? Certainly. Bank Street is a leading investment bank that works with technology, media, and telecom companies really on a global basis. We help companies raise capital of every institutional flavor from the senior part of the balance sheet on the debt side to every flavor of a structured instrument as well as pure equity, institutional equity for opportunities to grow companies in our space, really at the four corners of the earth in terms of geographic focus. And we remain focused in the space, in particular maybe if there's a weighting, it's a fairly heavy weighting towards infrastructure and services that leverage that infrastructure space. And with that keen focus, can you tell us from your vantage point what trends are you seeing hitting our marketplace in 2017? I think 2017 barring some macro factors that could impact the space, I think we see a lot of trends just continuing. We see a continuing consolidation thesis that is playing out across this ecosystem really on a global basis as well. The themes may be slightly weighted differently in different geographies, but we do see a lot of activity in really the four corners. Heavy concentration in North America, quite a bit of activity in Europe as well. Asia seems to be getting more active for us as well and even some more remote places like Africa and South America as well. So it's going to be a very interesting year with a lot of activity. I think thematically in addition to the consolidation, some of the enabling factors, the proliferation of relatively attractive cost of capital sources across a variety of different sectors, I think will continue to fuel not only the consolidation elements but refinancing activity as well as recapitalization that reset some of these businesses for the next three to five years, taking advantage of today's low cost environment as well. And in June we're excited to welcome you again as our moderator of Telecom Exchange CEO Round Tables. You will be the moderator for Innovative Interconnections and its impact on business, a relevant topic for sure. Can you give our viewers a little preview of what might be in store for them at Telecom Exchange? Sure. Well, I think the conversation last year was a very interesting one and I think this year we'll be probably delving a little more deeply into the cross-section of how infrastructure really interacts with the major contributors to the GDP of almost any economy and then I guess most notably thinking about how that infrastructure affects and helps enable other parts of the economy to grow and likewise as we're seeing innovation and the demand for bandwidth coming out of so many sectors of the economy, how that demand is being met by some of the players in the space and I think it'll be an interesting conversation as it always has been and I'm hopeful that your viewers will be among us. We're excited to welcome you back and hopefully our viewers as well. We get the opportunity to see you here at PTC and at Telecom Exchange of course. What other events are on your calendar for 2017? Well Bank Street participates at most of the major industry events so we'll have representatives at Metro Connect in a couple of weeks. We'll have folks at the Encompass events. We're among the sponsors in all of these events. We also on the non-Telecom side a number of the data center hosting and other ecosystems will be omnipresent at those as well and on the wireless side we'll probably have some folks at the Barcelona celebrations as I call it. It's such a large event that draws people from all over the world that it's a must for folks that are trafficking in the wireless space as well. So we tend to have people that propagate these events and in large measure to really meet and spend time with some of our existing clients but also to catch the newest trends and really understand some of the latest new innovators in the space and hopefully grab an opportunity to collaborate with those folks and help build the next generation of leading companies in the space. Wonderful. We love what you do. We watch you closely and you're absolutely one of our leaders in our space so we're excited to have you at Telecom Exchange and at every other impactful event coming up this year. And for our viewers who want to know more where can they go? Well first of all thank you for the kind compliments. We on our team work very hard to earn such accolades and we're pleased to see that some folks appreciate the work that we do and for those that want to learn more obviously we have a website bankstreet.com. You can also call our offices and ask to speak with folks that may be experts in your particular business. Bankstreet.com. Rich, always a pleasure. Thank you. Pleasure is mine. Thank you for joining us and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV.