Beyond COVID-19: How M&A is driving growth in telecom, digital infrastructure and cloud services

Speaker Profile

Todd Crick is a Co-Founder of Astra and serves on the firm’s Investment Committee. Mr. Crick has many years of experience in the target segments of Astra both as a Strategy Consultant and as an Operating Executive and has been involved in dozens of M&A transactions on both the buy-side and sell-side. Prior to Co-founding Astra, Mr. Crick was SVP Operations of Alien Vault, a security company. Before that, he was Head of Consulting and Systems Integration for Ericsson in North America. He has also held roles as SVP Services for VeriSign, an Internet infrastructure company and as an Advisor to Cylance, a security company. Mr. Crick’s Strategy Consulting Career started at Deloitte Consulting where he served multinational companies primarily in the Telecommunications Industry. In 2001, he was one of the founders of inCode, a boutique strategy consulting company serving the Telecommunications and Internet segments. inCode was acquired by VeriSign in 2006, repurchased by the management team, led by Mr. Crick as President, in 2008 and later acquired by Ericsson in 2010. Mr. Crick has held Boards of Directors Positions with Positioning Universal Incorporated, a manufacturer of IoT devices, and Global Cloud Fleet, a provider of fleet management solutions, where he also served as interim CEO. He is also active as an Advisor to start-ups in a number of different industries. Mr. Crick has a Bachelor and Master of Applied Science (Engineering) from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Calgary.