Kartik Kakarala

Kartik, in his current role as Co-Founder/CEO of Halcyon, is responsible for Sales, Business Development and Innovation, as well as the creation of Technology assets. He has held several senior management roles in Fortune 100 and Big 5 Consulting firms in USA. Kartik has over twelve years of experience in the IT industry before he co-founded Halcyon. He has extensive breadth of experience as an Executive in the Technology Industry. Kartik has been responsible for developing several systems in the Automotive Industry including CRM, ERP and several financial applications. While at Halcyon, Kartik has contributed significantly in various capacities to the company’s growth.

Srinivas Kakarala

Srinivas is the Co-Founder/COO of Halcyon. In his current role, he sets the direction and roadmap for achieving the organizational objectives. Srinivas’ command over emerging technologies and their application to radically improve efficiency with the existing systems and processes can be aptly termed as industry thought leadership. As the COO, Srinivas frequently raised the performance bar to help the organization scale new heights while leveraging human capital without geographical boundaries. He has an uncanny ability to identify and nurture the right talent, thereby consistently enriching Halcyon’s topnotch human capital. He mentors each dimension of Halcyon’s ecosystem in delivering tangible returns to our global customers from their relationship with Halcyon.

Seenu Banda

As a transformational and entrepreneurial executive with over 20 years of business development experience, bringing information technology products to international markets, I help companies solve complex business problems. Currently, I am looking to leverage my experience in marketing and technology to help businesses see the big picture and solve multi-dimensional problems. I combine both my marketing and IT engineering skills with my broad experiences as Founder and CEO to execute strategies and deliver comprehensive solutions for businesses of all sizes. Since I founded and sold two innovative market segment companies, my expertise scales from start-ups to large, international corporations. My extensive record of founding, expanding and improving organizations within complex international business environments demonstrates my unique ability. I map products to market needs, create market awareness, educate customers through value propositions, and lead cross-functional teams to drive high growth and volume product lines successfully to market. Throughout my career, I have identified and strengthened value for business development by balancing strategy with execution while furthering organizational growth and implementing technological advancements. I can deliver your business immediate process and revenue improvements across a wide range of international market conditions.

Tyler Hall

Tyler Hall is a successful founder, CEO, tech leader, investor, advisor, motorcycle enthusiast, dad and husband. As the founder and CEO of a VC backed automotive tech company Drivably, Tyler led the company through an acquisition in 2022 and prior to that founded multiple companies and was an early employee and executive at Domo (NYSE: DOMO) and HireVue (Acquired for $511m by The Carlyle Group).

Tyler has been through all of the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, but it wasn’t until he experienced nearly losing his wife during 2022 to a complicated pregnancy issue that made him pause and reflect on his experiences and the next steps for his own journey.

Tyler has now shifted his focus from building his own companies to helping build the world’s best CEOs and organizations through coaching, advising, investing, and all around holistic support. As a coach, Tyler uses proven frameworks to help leaders unlock areas in their personal and professional life where they are stuck, or insecure, and introduce them to a new world in which empathy and emotional presence are a competitive advantage.

His unique insights and lived experiences make him an incredible sounding board, accountability partner, star strategic advisor, and someone you want in your corner as you navigate the ups and downs of building a company.

He currently serves as an advisor to companies like RunBuggy, Ferry, DIMO, Nemodata, Miggos, HGreg, DealerPeak and several others.

He is an all around leader in both the professional and personal world as dad to 3 beautiful kids loving husband to his wife.

Robert Bennett

CEO of First Lexington, LLC - Lower Middle Market firm with operating expertise in technology, finance, manufacturing, and media. Specializing in acquiring, managing and growing companies in select strategic markets.

Current - Moolec Sciences - Independent Director Taken Moolec Sciences through a successful SPAC process using LightJump Acquisition Corp. as the SPAC. Currently Independent Director.

Current - Modulant Solutions - Vice Chairman Acquired a platform company, PDIT and created Modulant Solutions a next generation data interoperability software and services company.

Current - Chairman/CEO - JDW Cotillions, Inc. - Social Education Company - Largest facilitator of child aged Cotillions in the USA.

Current - Chairman/CEO - Dallas Land Care, LLC - Fast growing commercial landscape maintenance company in the burgeoning DFW metroplex.

Former CEO - Long-Lok Fasteners Corporation - Sold to Novaria Group in Dec, 2019 - established and growing Aerospace Fastener Company - with proprietary technology in next generation aerospace hardware - including proprietary hardware on next generation jet engine platforms. Three manufacturing plants in California and Ohio.

2015 to 2017 - ViewMarket / CultureMap - CEO Acquired Culturemap, expanded markets and enhanced technology platform. Sold to Gow Media, LLC.

2000 to 2005 - Springbow Solutions - Chairman Acquired interactive agencies and IT services firms to create national platform company of next generation web solutions providers. Sold to Softlink, Inc.

1995 to 2000 - ESC Connectors - CEO Acquired a connector accessory manufacturer from the Penn Central Corporation - sold to Glenair, Inc.

1997 to 2000 - Presidio Media Group - CEO Acquired Texas Business Magazine, The Met Magazine (Dallas Alternative Newsweekly) from a consolidated publishing group. Grew sales and sold The Met Magazine to New Times, Inc. and sold Texas Business Magazine to Emmis Media.

1993 to 2000 CSC Media - CEO Founded a rollup in the special interest sports publication market. Became the largest publisher of College Sports fan magazines in the country through a regional acquisition and rollout strategy and created extreme sports group. Sold to Landmark Communications and Primedia/Emap in 2000