Carl T. Hayashi, Ph.D.

Before founding HCG, Carl served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Van Metre Companies, a regional real estate company in Virginia, where he led an IT organization, achieving an annual 95% customer satisfaction rating, as well as the successful implementation of numerous strategic initiatives, including cloud migration, installation of a software-defined wide area network, and the establishment of a data warehouse environment. He also led a company-wide, organizational-transformation initiative, emphasizing a data-driven, business-decision-making model (e.g., data analytics, business intelligence) and enhanced, go-to-market strategies (e.g.,  corporate rebranding, new website design).

Carl has also held numerous management positions within the disaster recovery, business continuity, and resiliency services organizations of the IBM Corporation, which included cloud customer backup and recovery, emergency operations, delivery technical support and operations, and national project management. Prior to his tenure at IBM, he held faculty positions at Texas Tech University and the University of Oregon, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses, conducted scientific research, advised graduate students, and authored numerous research studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and book chapters.