 This is JSATV, the newsroom for tech and data center professionals. I'm Dean Perine, EVP at JSA and joining me today is Mr. Scotty Benda. Scotty is the new Chief Product Officer at Light River. Scotty, welcome to JSATV. Thank you, Dean. I really appreciate it. I am so excited to be joining the Light River team. They've been my best business partner for over a decade, as well as a number of my customers. So thanks for having me. You bet. And you know what? Congratulations on the job and the title and all of that good stuff. So why don't you tell us a little bit more about the new role and what the expectations of you might be on the leadership team? Yeah, absolutely. So, one, I'm really glad to be joining an excellent leadership team. And the good thing about the Chief Product Officer is that really it aligns with my strengths. I come from a long line of telecommunications equipment vendors. So I worked at Nortel for 10 years, Lucent for three, startup company in Silicon Valley called One Eye Systems for three, and then CNF for the last 22. And based on that experience, I feel I can add some expertise to the leadership team, one in ways of leveraging my system engineering to deliver a solution design best practices, as well as pre to post sales workflow. That's one of the big challenges when you're designing some complex networks and handing it off to team to operationalize those networks is that pre to post. I've got a lot of experience with that. Another is I was a general manager of the service division on a worldwide basis, and I can certainly be able to help identify opportunities and launch new services that will continue to help grow our services business. I love working with technology partners because nobody has the best solution all the way around. So it's always good to have those partnerships. And I've got a lot of peers with my time in the industry. I've been contacted by about 15 so far wondering how they can work with us at Light River. So it's exciting. And then lastly, one of my things that I really enjoy to do is help with mergers and acquisitions. I've done a lot of due diligence in the past and my R&D experience allows me to evaluate those companies and their technology quickly. I love it. So let's talk a little bit. I mean, your experience is considerable but what ultimately kind of led you to Light River? What was it about Light River that made you go, you know what, that's the place for me. Great, great question. So as I mentioned before, they have been one of my best partners for a long, long time. And when you look at the evolution of the network, things are moving towards an open disaggregated network. And one of the things about having an open network that's standards-based and disaggregation, which is saying that I'm allowing people to now build the best network possible leveraging the best of read components within that network. And you really need two key things to make that a successful environment. One is having a partner that can take care of the procurement. One, but then also take care of the integration of all those different components within a best of read solution. And then lastly, providing a network management capability that allows you to work in a multi-vendor environment and make it as simple as possible to manage. And Light River hits all those buckets. So now that you have successfully onboarded onto the Light River executive team, maybe talk to us a little bit about what you foresee in kind of the short-term and mid-term future there at Light River. So yeah, so short, near-term and longer-term. So in the near-term, I'm still absorbing and really understanding what our capabilities are. And from running the services organization, I've really been evaluating our skills. And then also the same thing from a pre-sale system engineering team. And I've been really, really pleased with everybody that I've met so far that goes back to a program that they have called the Young Guns Program where they're constantly recruiting from a number of universities, both on the West Coast and on the East Coast. And they start the program out with an associate technician position and they move all the way through a technician to a field engineer, to a pre-sale system engineer or to a project manager, project, sorry, or a project engineer or a project manager. And they really have a good understanding of everybody's, you know, every vendor's equipment and the solutions and where they fit and how they build them from the ground up, how they deploy them, how they configure them and how they support them and how they plug into the network management system. So just a great, great team, everything that I've discovered so far, the thing that I'm evaluating now is what can we do more of? Or what are some new vectors that we could move the company towards in terms of service offerings, in terms of new capabilities with their network management platform, possibly new partnerships with some more best of breeds. So I think, you know, the sky's the limit for Light River and I'm really excited to be a part of it. Awesome, awesome. Well, I feel like there's probably another one of these discussions in our future as you get more acclimated to Light River and they get more acclimated to you. So thanks very much for being with us today. Is there anything else you'd like to add while I've got you? Sure, you know, partnership is key in making sure that, you know, there's always a win-win situation for partners. And that is something that I've always experienced with Light River. A lot of people, especially vendors, tend to be fearful when working with partners. They feel like, oh, I have everything to lose and nothing to gain. But the reality is this partnership, we do a very deep relationship building with our vendor partners and we really understand what the applications are and we understand where we can create that win-win environment for both teams. And absolutely mitigate anything that you have to lose. So, you know, I'm really excited to be here. I'm excited because I'm meeting, you know, some long-term customers this evening and going with the Light River team and, you know, could be happy. Outstanding, Scotty. Congratulations again. Thanks for being with us on JSA TV. 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