Mike Lattimore: Well, lets see. I guess Ive done a couple minutes over here. But listen, I just
want to touch on two more things. One is, you hear a lot about supply chain constraints, like how do you think about supply chain in your world?
Romil
Bahl: Yeah, so maybe, you know, in general unhelpful, right, and getting more acutely so, as the days pass, weve been relatively good at getting ahead of the problem ourselves on what we control. So we havent had any situations where we
didnt have, or you know, SIMs those sorts of things we got ahead of that. And were trying to stay ahead of that as much as possible. But our customers who are getting into trouble because theyre unable to get their devices,
thats hurting us, right? Thats restricting growth, that we will never exactly be able to measure across all our customers and how many orders we should have seen by now or would have helped us going into next year kind of stuff that just
____ so thats, an issue. The other sort of, you know, corollary of this story is that a number of our customers who are looking to replace their 2g, 3g devices, with 4g LTE devices are now feeling like they left it too late. By the way, even
though that was revenue impact to us, meaning LTE revenues much lower for us than 3g revenue, weve been telling our customers for three and four years get on with this, get on with this get on with this, right, the migration is something you
have to do to de-risk yourselves, well, those that left that late, are now having trouble getting hold of their devices. And so theres now going to be lets just use the word I used earlier, a
little bit more trauma out there across some of our customers, as theyre navigating these waters. But, you know, I mean, if you see fit to view us as the 5, 10, frankly, 15 year story, we are with this crazy IoT wave, I mean, noise of a few
quarters of anything, you know, is only worth so much time and worry, right? I mean, the demand is going to come back, all of these devices will show back up, itll end up helping 23 and 24, and so forth, if were a little bit
slower in 22.
Mike Lattimore: Makes sense. And then last one, you know, youre raising some money here, youre gonna have lower, you
know, debt ratios, like to make acquisitions sounds like, maybe just touch a couple of the key acquisition criteria you have.
Romil Bahl: I mean, I look,
I think the main one I like to talk about from an acquisition perspective is, you know, building out these industry practices, so this year, for the very first time, sort of fleet, which has long been telematics long been our largest industry, as
the one at the bottom of this page. And then connected health, which became our largest industry last year, as the pandemic, you know, as 18 months of the pandemic has been, like 18, or 20 years of adoption and innovation in healthcare. And so, you
know, we stripped those two, weve had great success by doing it by focusing, and by hiring and attracting talent, that can talk this language with their customers and build these use cases, the use cases where 80% 90% of IoT dollars are being
spent, that were focused on, right. And we want to get asset, industrial, communication services really going for real, right. And so you can do that organically to some degree. Right. And we certainly hope that the new Pubco board will
support greater investments, etc. Equally, you know, acquisitions is a great way to do this, right? I mean, one of the things that drove our connected health success with the acquisition of a company called Integron, which was, about 80
85 percent healthcare focused when we bought them. And you know, the CEO, the head of Integron, came in, and is now kind of the CEO of our KORE connected health practice, if you will, Brian Lubell, right. And some anchor customers came with it,
experience. And so if I could do one of those and every one of these industries, you know, we work right. So thats a key vector for m&a, like and then the other vector. You know, as we continue our transformation, Ive said a couple
of times that were only, you know, two and half or three years into this five year journey, this phase to transformation to KORE three dot O, if you will, were sort of in phase two, standing up the industry go to market, trying to take
leadership in eSIM, right. Weve talked a lot about that. Well, phase
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