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Welcome to the Digital Executive.

Today's guest is Dr. John Bates.

Dr. John Bates is the chief executive officer of DOCSIS, formerly SER Group.

John is an experienced CEO with over 25 years of industry experience, and he has collaborated three times with DOCSIS majority owners, the Carlyle Group.

John is also a non-executive director of Sage Group PLC, a leader in cloud accounting and financial management software.

Prior to DOCSIS, John was the CEO of Eggplant, a pioneer of AI-powered software test automation, and the CEO of Plat1, an IoT apps platform acquired by SAP, and founder and president of Appama, a pioneer of streaming analytics.

He has also served as a C-level executive in several public software companies, including Software AG and Progress Software.

He holds a PhD in computer science from Cambridge University.

Well, good afternoon, John.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you very much.

Great to be here.

Absolutely, my friend.

I appreciate it.

And you're hailing out of the London, England area in the UK.