 Hey everybody, welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for data center and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scato-Cutaya, and we are here live from ITW 2022, and it's a special year for ITW. They're celebrating 15 years, really quite a milestone and so much news on the floor here. And to prove my point, I'm joined by Bob Painter. He's the president of Ascent. Bob, welcome to your first JSA TV. Thank you, Jamie. Thank you for having me. And we're so excited that you're here. And for some of our viewers who may not already know, I'm sure they do, but can you tell us a little bit about Ascent, set the table for us? Absolutely. Ascent is a 24 year old company. Ascent provides miscritical services across North America. Ascent provides data center operations, engineering, facility management, IT site service, engineering and construction for our customers focusing on transparency, centralization, stable standardization and reliability. And you know, transparency, reliability, great words, especially right now in our industry, which is experiencing such a boom. Yes. And I shall also note, you are one of our 24 authors of our greener data book, which we are so honored to have your insight, your leadership as part of our book, our movement. Can you tell our viewers maybe a little bit about Ascent's chapter in the book? Sure, it's pretty simple. Our chapter hidden in plain sight, we provided a brief view into the services we provide our customers on a daily basis. We utilized our operational experience and our platform to help our customers achieve their sustainability goals while reducing costs and increasing reliability. So for myself, the company's a 24 year old company. I've been with them 23 years and was the first engineer hired. So to be a part of this is pretty important to me. And it's so important what you guys are doing for the industry, you know, we can't measure, we can't set goals, we can't grow together in a more sustainable way unless we have true transparent data and reliability. And again, these are the core pillars of Ascent. So really, really excited about again, what you've brought to our book, but also what you bring to our industry. And now in 2021, Ascent announced a partnership with Lincoln Rack House, a name I've recently got introduced to through Ascent. And I wanna say, this has expanded your management program, your platform. Tell us more about that partnership and what it means to Ascent. Well, it's only been a year and it's been a great experience for the Ascent team. We've experienced increased growth and it's gonna be a very bright future with the growth in our industry. Stonepoint and the Lincoln Property Company of Families are great partners. And really providing those resources, capabilities to get you to scale and grow, get Ascent to where it's moving to. So what can we expect from Ascent for the remainder of 2022? Well, Navigator is our service platform that we developed in-house for our data center operations. And we got a couple key initiatives on our roadmap. We're developing an electronic method of procedures or online mops, which will enable us to be paperless. It also better change control and most more efficient for our guys in the field and for our customers. Then secondly, we're developing an online account management dashboard. So a manual process that our account management team works with our customers on updates will be a real-time status update on our platform. So it's pretty exciting. It's always looking to continuously improve to help our customers achieve their business goals. It's so exciting. And that real-time visibility transparency, again, similar to our live broadcast here, really gives that immediacy, that information that customers really need right away. We can't be releasing news two, three weeks after ITW, it's right now. Something, of course, near and dear to the Ascent team as well. So where can our viewers go? Who want more information? Online at www.ascentcorp.com or just reach out to me on my LinkedIn. I'll be glad to discuss our services or our capabilities if we see if that's the right fit and be a good business partners. Yeah, that's Bob Painter on LinkedIn as well as one of our authors for greener data. Again, thank you so much for such leadership and support. We adore you guys and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcast. As always, guys, thank green and happy networking.