Todd Tyler has been appointed Advisor at Groupize, Inc.
Groupize, the award-winning provider of innovative, simple meeting solutions today announced the appointment of Todd Tyler as an Advisor. Todd Tyler currently serves as an investor, director, and advisor to multiple high growth SaaS companies, with a concentration in hospitality technology including tripBAM, a SaaS company providing hotel rate shopping technology to corporate travel managers and travel agencies; CrunchTime! Information Systems, a SaaS company providing restaurant enterprise management software to the hospitality industry; and PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PAR) the leader in systems and service solutions for the hospitality industry and a leading provider of technical solutions to the government sector, where he is also the chair of the Nominating/Governance Committees and a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee. He also serves as the President, CEO, and Director of Electronic Commerce, Inc., is a SaaS company providing human capital management solutions to middle market companies. He has also been an Executive in Residence for Battery Ventures, a venture capital and private equity firm who focuses on cutting-edge technology businesses and has also served as an Operating Partner for Frontier Capital who provides capital to middle market software and business services companies. Tyler spent over 12 years as the President, CEO, Director, and owner of Lanyon, a SaaS provider of software for the meetings and events industry. Under his leadership, Lanyon grew from a simple technology company to a profitable, industry-leading company serving 70 percent of the businesses that comprise the Fortune 500 and more than 100,000 hospitality suppliers around the world. He has been named by Business Travel News as one of the “25 Most Influential Executives in Business Travel.” Prior to Lanyon, Tyler was the CFO, general counsel, and director of a wholly-owned and newly established technology subsidiary of Reliant Energy (NYSE: REI), an electricity and energy provider. Previously, Todd practiced law in Dallas / Ft. Worth as a senior tax and transactions attorney representing high growth software companies as well as other public and private companies.
