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Trey Ikard

Managing Partner at WIV Ventures

Austin, Texas

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2022

2014 - 2021

  • Managing Partner & Founder

    2014 - 2021

    Indoor Play, LLC is headquartered in Austin, TX and is a privately held company that finances and operates businesses in the Family Entertainment Centers (FEC) industry throughout the state of Texas. That holding's operated under the name PlayMazing (formally Catch Air Texas).

2011 - 2014

  • Executive Vice President & Partner

    2011 - 2014

    TK Mobility empowers organizations to take full advantage of modern mobility. With a constant finger on the pulse of the mobile industry, we consistently provide our clients with innovative and powerful solutions to assist them in navigating and solving their most challenging problems in the mobility ecosystem. Our expertise can provide your business with high-impact solutions for whatever your mobile needs are today or in the future.

  • Advisor and Consultant

    2010 - 2011

    Kaizen Capital Partners is a full-service specialized investment bank focused on providing small, and middle-market clients access to otherwise inaccessible capital markets through unique structured finance products. Other areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, buy-side acquisition services, growth capital transactions, and distressed situations.

2007 - 2010

  • President & Founder

    2007 - 2010

    MobiTX LLC is a mobile advertising company that provides clients with innovative mobile marketing strategies and solutions to market or extend brands to customers on the mobile ecosystem. We provide an in-application advertising and mobile ad-buying solution to the business. These solutions provided result-driven services that provided measurable ROI from services to the customer of our mobile advertising solutions for in-app ad buying, geo-fence, push ads and customer analytical data.

2005 - 2006

  • Director of Mobile Business Continuity Services

    2005 - 2006

    Lead mobile business continuity strategy for enterprise accounts.

  • Mobile & Wireless Consultant

    2005 - 2005

    Provided heightened awareness in the company’s campaign to support their mobile enterprise business demands. Offered strategic guidance and understanding on Research In Motion: Blackberry Enterprise Servers (BES) and Blackberry handheld architectures and wireless challenges. Provided accelerated growth with partnership and developed strategic business relationships that accomplished wireless goals. Assisted is architecting a wireless software solution that readily plugged into the present software environments in a cost-efficient and resourceful way.

  • President & CEO | Founder

    2000 - 2005

    HillCast Technologies, Inc. was credited with the creation of the first network-enabled Mobile Application. The Mobile Application, developed in J2ME, was branded as MidCast and provided real-time mobile financial pricing data for consumers and financial institutions. The MidCast Application was also recognized for pioneering the Mobile FinTech sector in 2001. The HillCast award-winning core mobile communication technology led to corporate partnerships with leading mobile device manufactures and wireless carriers like Motorola, Nokia, BlackBerry, Microsoft, AT&A, Sprint, Verizon, and Nextel. The MidCast mobile application delivered Level-2 and institutional financial data to over 40 thousand customers, across 14 device platforms, in 107 countries and provided mobile financial solutions to Institutional Banking and Enterprise Financial institutions customers such as Deutsche Bank, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Maryland, Lehman brothers, NYSE, NASDAQ, CME, and others. In 2006 was acquired by Charles Schwab.

  • President

    1995 - 2000

    Outer Limits Software is an Internet Design Agency that specializes in custom, complex Web development and interactive marketing campaigns with complex and innovative solutions. The company successfully launched and managed hundreds of websites interactive campaigns for corporations and advertising firms threw out the United States.