Summary: With the never ending M&A activities facing most industries, managing your career success through acquisition is a critical survival skill.<br> In today's show, our guest Andrew Skafel shares his lessons learned in how to not only survive acquisitions but how to navigate the changes to ensure career success.<br> We discussed:<br> <br> * Andrew shared is academic background and how it has no connection to his current role as CEO.<br> * What he wanted to do before he got into tech.<br> * His experience of going though multiple acquisitions over his career.<br> * Sharing what contributed to his career success.<br> * Shares one experience where he felt like giving up but instead stayed with it.<br> * History of how Edgewater Wireless came about.<br> * The strategy of doing a spin out from a parent company.<br> * The technology behind Edgewater Wireless.<br> * What makes this technology non-obvious that prevented other from inventing it.<br> * Andrew respomded to the task of sharing three pieces of advice he would you to a 20 year old Andrew.<br> * He discussed two pieces of advice would he would give an entrepreneur just starting out.<br> <br> About Edgewater Wireless:<br> Edgewater Wireless is revolutionizing Wi-Fi infrastructure with their patented, multi-channel WiFi3™ technology powering next-gen access points, Small Cells and Wi-Fi/DAS solutions. Edgewater Wireless has figured out how to deliver what MSOs and their customers have been asking for: vastly improved Wi-Fi network performance across a variety of industries and challenging environments with unparalleled performance, high flexibility, and unsurpassed security. For more information, check out the <a href="http://www.edgewaterwireless.com/" target="_blank">Edgewater Wireless website</a>.<br> About Andrew Skafel:<br> Andrew is responsible for leading Edgewater Wireless, Andrew’s broad strategic perspective comes from his work with both multinational equipment vendors and a number of start-up network operators.<br> Andrew has significant multinational experience. He was based in Asia for seven years where he worked for Newbridge Networks/Alcatel; Silicon Valley-based, InterWAVE Communications and the Commercial Division of the Canadian High Commission (Malaysia). His roles included strategic marketing, international business development and business planning.<br> A proven telecom innovator and leader, Andrew founded an innovative GSM operator in Brasil, taking the project from concept to fundraising, license acquisition and launch phases.<br> Mr. Skafel holds an MBA from INSEEC (Paris), a graduate diploma from the McRae Institute of International Management (Vancouver) and a BA in Economics & Politics from the University of Western Ontario.<br> Show links:<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.edgewaterwireless.com/" target="_blank">Edwater Wireless website</a><br> * <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/NextGenWiFi" target="_blank">Edgewater Wireless on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/andrew_skafel" target="_blank">Andrew Skafel on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-skafel-3027" target="_blank">Andrew Skafel on LinkedIn</a><br> <br>
