Leadership Team

With a leadership team who in 1998 launched Blackstone Technology Group and has since successfully charted its extraordinary growth, we possess a true appreciation for the entrepreneurial mindset of growth companies and can identify with the many challenges facing them. Each partner subscribes to a common vision and culture for the company and has made a long-term commitment to Blackstone’s future success. This stability and cohesion provides for unparalleled teamwork and customer focus.

David Mysona, co-founder and CEO

Tapping his over fifteen years of IT experience in technical solution sales and implementation, David focuses on defining and leading our company’s strategic direction and heads up our new business development efforts. After several years in various technical positions at companies such as Lockheed Martin and Pacific Gas and Electric Co., David moved to the Management Consulting Services division of Price Waterhouse. There he co-founded and developed a utilities-based practice area that focused on helping utilities, pipelines, and local distribution companies survive and thrive in the deregulated energy industry. From there he moved to the prominent San Francisco-based executive placement firm, Chen & McGinley, where he significantly grew the company’s revenue from his position as Vice President of New Business Development. David holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University.

Casey Courneen, co-founder and President

Casey’s focus is on our internal operations where he draws upon over a decade of experience in the consulting industry to ensure that Blackstone continues to be an efficient and profitable business. He began his IT career as a Senior Consultant with Price Waterhouse’s Management Consulting Services division, helping Fortune 100 telecom, energy, and financial services companies gain advantage over their competition with superior information systems. From there he moved to a start-up IT services firm where he concentrated on leading several client-server, object-oriented and distributed technology projects across a number of different vertical markets. He also helped define the overall engagement methodology as well as the various internal strategies used to hire and retain the best talent in the industry. He quickly became Associate Director, where he dealt directly with large-scale systems integration delivery and sales, again in both the energy and financial services worlds. Casey holds a B.S.E. in Finance and Legal Studies from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rakesh Agrawal, co-founder and EVP

Based on his ten plus years of experience in delivering multi-tier, mission-critical applications to Fortune 1000 companies in the energy and financial services sectors, Rakesh leads the delivery side of the Consulting division of Blackstone. He began his career as a Technology Consultant with Merrill Lynch, creating several internal portfolio management applications, tools, and utilities. From there he joined a smaller start up IT services firm and as Senior Technical Architect and Project Manager, he designed highly complex and flexible application architectures for large-scale system integration engagements. Rakesh holds an M.B.A from the University of Kentucky and a B.S in Material Science Engineering from the Regional Engineering College, India. He also holds numerous certificates in information systems integration and management.