Hayes has over eight years of product development experience across the online marketing and advertising space with an emphasis on developing web scale platforms and solutions.  He got his start with a small online SEM/SEO agency. While there, he took on business intelligence and reporting responsibilities, learning the ropes of online marketing.  He then took that experience to Harvest Solutions as the first official employee where he helped this bootstrapped company develop a distributed data processing and collection warehouse for analytics and web data collection.  CheetahMail, an email services provider, recognized the advanced capabilities in Harvest and acquired them to help bring to market more intelligent email.  Hayes then turned his focus to platform integration, leveraging their joint capabilities to create market leading behavioral and audience targeted email programs using both first and third-party data.  These products resulted in a campaign revenue lift upwards of 2100%. After CheetahMail, Hayes was back to start-up life with Lunch.com where he refined his knowledge of consumer interfaces and user experience paradigms within the social media and user-generated content space.  While there, he helped the company conceptualize and develop their platform for user-generated and user-moderated communities.

Growing up in Anaheim, California, Hayes spent his days as an aspiring drummer and point guard for his high school basketball team. Inspired by his immigrant parents, he took his entrepreneurial drive and desire to learn about business to Westwood where he majored in Economics and minored in Computer Science at UCLA.  He’s been on the Westside ever since.  Today, he resides in Culver City with his wife and son. 

Loves: Family, surfing, jogging, all things technology, start-up life, music, cheap eats (he’s a self-proclaimed foodie), and hanging with friends
Favorite Quote: "Carpe Diem. Seize the wave!"