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Carl Grivner, CEO of Colt, discusses his 2017 strategic priorities, expansion plans, and highlights the main challenges operating in Europe.
What have been the highlights and key developments for your company in the region in the past year?
It's been a year of change for Colt. I took the reins as CEO in January and about 40% of the senior management team is new. So we've changed a lot about the company, a lot about the strategy and a lot about the culture in the last 12 months.
We've made significant investments in our core infrastructure to serve the growing connectivity requirements of the digital enterprise by building out a multi-terabit optical backbone and next generation packet network optimised for 100Gbps connectivity.
The we're in the process of hiring about 300 new sales people, and focusing on significant improvements in customer service that will be groundbreaking in terms of the experience.
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