This post is based on an interview with Andy Lustig. It is part of our series of interviews of OODA Network members. Our objective with these interviews is to provide actionable information of interest to the community, including insights that can help with your own career progression. We also really like highlighting some of the great people that make our continued research and reporting possible. For the full series see: OODA Expert Network Bio Series.

Career Progression:   As the son of a State Department employee, Andy lived in many interesting places, including Vietnam and Brazil. Andy took a job with Cooley LLP right out of law school.  In the past twenty years, he has developed a specialty in venture capital, mergers and acquisition.  He uses these skills to help technology startups – from incubation to maturity.  While he works in many market segments, he confessed that his passion is getting solutions into the Federal Space, where they are needed to help warfighters on the battlefield.