Patrick Hardy

Patrick Hardy is CEO of Hytropy.com, one of the leading disaster management companies in hospitality. A Certified Emergency Manager®, and a Certified Risk Manager® he has extensive experience working with facilities from coast-to-coast in the public, private and non-profit sectors in disaster management from micro-businesses to Fortune 500 companies.  

In the summer of 2012, he became the first small business owner ever to be selected as the National Private Sector Representative to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), spending three months in Washington D.C. helping develop a national small business framework.

Patrick has also been a visiting disaster instructor to the National EMS Academy, and wrote the chapters on disaster preparedness, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction for the new Advanced Emergency Medical Technician Textbook for use in the US National Curriculum.