Hal Blackman

Hal Blackman is the president, chief executive officer and founder of IST Management Services, Inc. He has more than 24 years experience in sales and management. Hal’s vision is to create a diverse, global technology and service-based company that is focused and passionate about exceeding client expectations while simultaneously reducing their costs. Hal has built IST into a national company serving all major vertical markets from east to west coast with specialization on legal and corporate support infrastructures.

Concurrently, IST has remained the partner of choice for organizational support services boasting a 90% client retention rate since IST's inception in 1997. A cum laude graduate of West Virginia University, he holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration, with a specialization in human resources. Hal lives in Fayetteville, Georgia, and his sons, Joshua and Sean, both graduated from the Naval Academy and are serving in the US Navy.