Richard Hyatt
Board Member at Hyatt Family Office
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Hyatt is a serial founder and technology visionary with over two decades of experience building and scaling network, security, and cloud infrastructure companies, including BlueCat and Dyadem, both acquired by strategic buyers. He blends deep technical leadership—having served as CTO and Chief Scientist—with entrepreneurial success as a board member, investor, and advisor to top Canadian venture firms like Georgian Partners. As a Founding Partner and Fellow at the Rotman School’s Creative Destruction Lab, he helps translate cutting-edge ML research into commercial ventures while mentoring startups through growth and go-to-market challenges. Recently he has focused on early-stage investing and operating roles through the Hyatt Family Office and as CEO of Candr.com, applying product-first approaches to fundraising and donor engagement. Beyond deal-making, Richard is a hands-on engineer at heart who has repeatedly turned complex infrastructure problems into repeatable platform businesses, and he balances this with active philanthropy and family life in Toronto.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (46)
unit-testing10
lambda-functions10
joi10
react-native10
testing10
wait10
aws-lambda10
ava10
iot10
api10
aws10
gateway10
api-gateway10
android10
jwt10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vandium-io/lambda-leak
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
vandium-io/joi-json
Jun 2016 - Jan 2020
Builds Joi schemas from JSON
Contributions:80 commits, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 7 months
buildsjoischemasjson-schemajson
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