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Drew Lydecker is president and co-founder of AVANT. Responsible for worldwide sales and marketing, he is the company’s “chief executive evangelist.” Leveraging expertise in cloud and global telecom services, Lydecker passionately studies the IT market, dedicated to making AVANT a trusted resource for focused and broad-based providers alike. He believes that success hinges on embracing disruption in pursuit of innovative change and works to ensure that AVANT’s tools, engineers, co-sell capabilities and sales enablement platform empower channel agents — IT’s Trusted Advisors — in doing just that. Prior to co-founding AVANT, Lydecker worked as a Voice & Data specialist at CDW. He played a key part in helping CDW become one of the largest telecommunications agents in the world as the number one specialist on the team.Company Spotlight in Tech
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