Kelsey's Grammar Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor 1/11/2021 Gina Murphy hasn't followed a "traditional" career path in the telecom industry, but her flexibility in learning new skills has likely laid the foundation for her current role on Navisite's executive leadership team. In this Women in Comms mentor spotlight, Murphy shares her advice on how to develop a playbook to ease the transition period during mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and shares how to incorporate an incoming company's technology and employees in a seamless way for everyone involved. Prior to her current role as president and COO of Navisite, Murphy was a newspaper sportswriter; technical RFP writer; trained technicians on how to build servers; and held positions in sales, product and business development at companies such as Rackspace and TriCore Solutions. She's now on her second stint at cloud service provider Navisite. RDX acquired Navisite from Charter Communications in 2019, and shortly thereafter, RDX rebranded under the Navisite name. Navisite brought in additional recent acquisitions of clckwrk and ClearDB under the Navisite umbrella, and hasn't stopped there the company acquired cloud managed service provider Velocity Technology Solutions just last week.