Primary Job Title Co-Founder & President Primary Organization 
AVANT Communications
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male Also Known As Andrew Lydecker
LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
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 contributed to making CDW one of the largest telecom agents in the world.
