Brian Hayt is NobleReach’s Senior Director of the Innovation Platform, where he leads business analytics and product strategy to help deep tech ventures and entrepreneurial ecosystems thrive. His work focuses on ensuring that innovators have access to the right talent, capital, and infrastructure to deliver meaningful impact. As part of NobleReach’s efforts, Brian has helped place 15 entrepreneurs into DARPA-backed hard tech ventures, contributing to an ecosystem that has supported over 100 ventures and helped raise more than $1.3B in capital.

Before joining NobleReach, Brian worked as a product marketer at National Instruments, where he led the marketing and launch of NI’s academic teaching products. During his time there, he launched six products, delivered five keynote presentations, co-authored a paper on teaching solar inverters, and trained sales teams worldwide.

Brian holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, where he helped lead the due diligence team at BlueTree Allied Angels, supported researchers at Los Alamos National Lab with customer discovery, and volunteered with as many promising startups as he could find. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

Outside of work, Brian enjoys watching short films, hiking, rock climbing, and mentoring robotics teams.