Patrick Hardy is founder and CEO of Hytropy Disaster Management™, the largest full-service small business disaster management company in the US. A Certified Emergency Manager®, Certified Risk Manager®, Master Business Continuity Professional® he is currently the National Sector Chief for Commercial Facilities in Infragard.

He is recognized as the foremost expert in small business disaster preparedness in over a dozen industries, having invented plans now considered best practice in that industry. In the summer of 2012, he became the youngest person and the first micro-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. designing the first small business disaster framework.