 Welcome back to ITW Extra, powered by JSA. We are here live at ITW 2023, and this is the official broadcast of ITW. And joining me today is Bruce Garrison. He is the CEO of Bandwidth IG. Bruce, welcome. Thank you, I appreciate it. Looking forward to our brief discussion. Yeah, I mean, the floor is still buzzing here at ITW, even though it's the final day. Coffee lines are still long. We see suitcases going by. People are getting ready to leave, but it's been an amazing, amazing three days here at ITW. So let's talk a little bit about Bandwidth IG. And for those that are unfamiliar with Bandwidth IG, why don't you give us a little more insight about the company? Yeah, sure will. Bandwidth IG, and it's Bandwidth IG's infrastructure group. We build and operate purpose-built infrastructure to the most connected internet destinations in our markets. And what I mean by purpose-built, a lot of the legacy networks, fiber networks, were built 15, 20 years ago. They've been acquired by a couple of different companies. There's less fiber availability. Bandwidth IG saw an opportunity with the explosion of internet traffic, cloud. Now there's machine learning and AI that these platforms were going to run into challenges without much more dense fiber. So purpose-built to us means 100% underground, same fiber type, very high duct packages, and a long runway, and it's just a critical asset that's now, it's turning into utility. Well, thanks for giving us that information. And you've had a number of announcements over this past year, including one big one with your appointment of the CEO of this company. So why don't you give us a little bit more information about your role and some of the additional leadership team members that you have added? Yeah, sure. Yeah, I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to join Bandwidth IG in December of last year. So I'm making around the six-month mark. The business is around three years old, a little over three years old, so the founding team outside of the CEO who helped start the business and stand up but wanted to step away. Majority of the founding teams there are, our next few years is really about commercial execution. So I had added a Chief Revenue Officer, a gentleman named Patton Lockridge, who joined us about six weeks ago. And to kinda, yeah, welcome Patton. Congrats. And to round out the team and for the foreseeable future, I think we have a good group intact to go execute on our mission. So in addition to the announcement of your appointment as the CEO and we have a new CRO, there's been other exciting news coming out of Bandwidth IG, including some expansions in the San Francisco Bay Area. So why don't you chat a little bit about that to our viewers? Yeah, well, that's a great question. So we have recent announcements that happened in the Bay, so the San Francisco Bay Area. We also operate in the Hillsborough and Portland area in Atlanta, but specific to the San Francisco Bay. So San Jose is, if not the most, one of the most connected internet traffic locations on the West Coast, Silicon Valley in the Bay Area continues to be a hub for data center activity. So going back to that purpose built statement that I had said, we built three, now have three new routes. Again, all underground, all multiple duck packages, so a long runway of fiber, unique to all of those legacy networks. So we are super excited about that, really giving network optionality in the Bay Area. Again, all up the Bay down through Santa Clara down to San Jose. And we actually have more exciting news to talk about towards the end of the year. Something super unique also in the Bay Area, but we'll hold that for a little bit longer. Oh yes, we'll definitely hold that for a little bit longer. And maybe we'll be talking about that at some of the fall events that are coming up. Is there anything else you want to add? As far as from an expansion perspective, we're doing more in Hillsborough area. Again, another data center market. So we'll continue to invest and add more route miles in Oregon. And we're also probably most excited about Atlanta's, seeing a lot of activity. Again, on the data center, progressive efforts on power and availability there. So we will continue to invest a lot in Atlanta and our network in Atlanta we expect to almost triple. So that's another time where we're spending a lot of capital but also a lot of time and resources to serve our existing customers and future ones. All exciting news coming up for BAM with IG. And is there anything else you wanted to add today? Nope, yep, just appreciate the opportunity, excited. It is a super unique business. You mentioned the point about all the buzz. You know, it's a lot of the telecom world. We're doing something, it's really mission critical infrastructure that's making AI and cloud possible. And it's a niche business with a lot of our customers here. So it's been a great event and thanks for, letting me join your interviews. Yes, thanks for joining us. It's been a pleasure having you here on ITW Extra powered by JSA, live from ITW. Where can viewers go if they wanna learn more? The website, BAMwithIG.com is a good place. LinkedIn is another one. And then on our website we have an event section so the teams are going out to the other industry events. You can connect with us there as well. All right, great, BAMwithIG.com. Bruce, thank you again for joining us and thank you viewers for tuning in to another episode of ITW Extra powered by JSA, live from ITW 2023. Happy networking.