Mark McCollum
Analyst · UBS. Your line is open.
Yes. I mean, as I articulated before, right, I think, that the -- there's opportunity there. I think that, as I evaluate the cost structure, at least from my perspective, sort of evaluate the level of integration between the product lines on a regional basis, and how we go to market, I just felt like that there's opportunity there. There's just -- I know that they're on the path, but that there was still opportunity to be able to go out and get. I looked at the balance sheet and I started evaluating relative to benchmarks that I'm always used to using, that there was opportunity to wring cash off the balance sheet that could be used to pay down the debt. And so when you evaluate and say, okay, this can be manageable, we can get the organization toward a level of profitability, this can be done, and it's in our things that are within the control. The ultimate requirement, though, is process and process discipline, right? When you sort of evaluate, you look back and you think about, okay, what were the things that really sort of burden the financials in the past? There were lawsuits and things that are not going to hopefully happen again. And so part of what you've got to do is ensure that you got process and procedures across the organization that ensure quality, both quality internally, as you execute your business in the day-to-day, but also quality as a you execute your business with your customers. And so -- and I think those are things that in the -- my experience with the integration team as well as former organizations, are things that I know how to do and bring. So that's really the key -- to me, what I intend to try out to help the organization do, is to sort of get to a level of process discipline that can get us to the goals that we need to reach now in terms of getting corporation to profitability and paying down that debt. Part of that is just as a leader being actively engaged with what's happening as well as empowering people across the organization, to make the right decisions and rewarding them for doing that. And so it's going to take some work around, just working with the management team to understand objectives, create division for what we need to do and to create the sense of urgency that we've got to get on it. We've got to get it done yesterday. And that's what I'll be focused on.