Amber Bahl

Founder & CEO Cyclotron, Inc.

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Amber Bahl is the founder and chief executive of Cyclotron, Inc., a San Francisco enterprise technology consultancy built entirely around the Microsoft stack. The firm advises organizations on Microsoft Azure, security and compliance, business applications, data platforms and, more recently, Copilot and AI adoption. Cyclotron’s own leadership page lists Bahl as CEO and founder, and the company positions itself as a top North American Copilot deployment partner. It has been named a Microsoft US Partner of the Year winner or finalist five times and sits in the Microsoft Inner Circle for AI Business Solutions. What is distinctive about the business is that a services firm of well under a hundred people also ships its own software: TeamsHub for Microsoft 365 governance, Kapton for compliance-as-a-service, Cyclotron Beam for Okta-to-Entra migration and Slacko for Slack-to-Teams migration.

Career Highlights

• Founder and CEO of Cyclotron, Inc., headquartered at 505 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, with offices reported in Los Angeles and Dallas.
• Microsoft US Partner of the Year recognition in Data Security & Compliance (2025), Compliance (2024), Security Endpoints (2023) and Social Impact (2020), plus a 2025 Security Excellence Customer Champion award.
• Selected for the Microsoft Inner Circle for AI Business Solutions for 2025-2026, the company’s second consecutive year.
• Built out an in-house product line alongside the consultancy, including TeamsHub, which commissioned an independent expert review in 2023 that scored it 4.8 out of 5.
• Worked inside the Microsoft ecosystem for roughly a decade before founding the firm, including on the SharePoint and Office development side.

Professional Journey

Bahl’s route into consulting ran through the Microsoft product world rather than through a large systems integrator. Trade profiles report that she held roles at Universal Studios, Bose and Microsoft, and that at Microsoft she was part of the SharePoint and Office development effort. She then built a Microsoft practice for a Bay Area systems integrator, which neither profile names. That sequence — product-side engineering first, then practice-building — is the background she cites for founding her own firm.

Cyclotron was founded in San Francisco in the middle of the last decade. The founding year is genuinely disputed in the record: the company’s current site says 2014, while two independent trade profiles date it to 2015, one specifically to December 2015. Her stated reason for starting it was dissatisfaction with how her previous employers served clients, and the firm was set up around speed of delivery — “no red tape, no gimmicks, just solid delivery,” as she put it in one profile.

The practice grew through the Microsoft partner channel. Cyclotron’s first major external recognition came in 2020 with a Microsoft US Partner of the Year award for Social Impact, followed by Security Endpoints in 2023, Compliance in 2024 and Data Security & Compliance in 2025. That run of security- and compliance-weighted awards reflects where the practice concentrated: identity, endpoint security, information protection and regulatory compliance inside Microsoft 365 and Azure.

Alongside the services business Bahl pushed the firm into building its own tooling, an unusual move for a consultancy of this size. TeamsHub, the Microsoft 365 governance and reporting product, is the most developed of these; in 2023 Cyclotron commissioned an independent assessment by a former Microsoft MVP and published the resulting 4.8-out-of-5 rating, with Bahl saying the goal had been third-party validation rather than self-assertion. Kapton, Cyclotron Beam and Slacko followed as narrower migration and compliance products.

Most recently the firm has repositioned around AI, describing itself as the leading Copilot deployment and adoption partner in North America and taking a second consecutive place in Microsoft’s Inner Circle for AI Business Solutions for 2025-2026.

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelor’s degree. The field of study is not stated in any non-LinkedIn source located, so none is asserted here.