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2024 HATCH Bios (Team)

Katy Yam

Partner / Real Ventures / Montréal QC

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Katy’s mission is to catalyse the extraordinary. She is a natural connector of people and ideas in service of helping good people succeed.
Investment Partner at Real Ventures and GM of FounderFuel, Katy brings 20+ years of multilingual executive experience in managing high-performing teams, including venture capital, AI, gaming, CPGs, telecos and nonprofits. As an early-stage investor that is ICD.D board certified, she sits on several boards as a member or observer.
Katy is also a guest lecturer and triathlete. She finds joy in reading fiction and likes to travel, swim, bike or run to unwind.

Rachel Hicks

Designer / Producer / Facilitator / HATCH / Rachel Hicks Design / Tilt / Bozeman Montana

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Rachel was raised in the mountains of Montana and has an eye for detail. As a strategist, facilitator, experiential designer and event producer for almost 20 years, she is dedicated to serving individuals and orgs. in reaching their highest potential. Her core values of authenticity, community, connection, and creativity can be seen in all aspects of her work and life. She is a certified Integral Facilitator trained to support individuals and teams to constructively think, dream, argue, envision, trust and connect over a common objective and achieve their goals at a high and doable level.

Roshi Givechi

Designer. Strategist. Facilitator. Documentary Filmmaker / consultant / Self-employed / New York NY

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Roshi Givechi provides design consulting services to large businesses, individual startup entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations looking to make a difference, while also developing her own short doc films. Common core? To enhance mindsets, crystalize experiences and amplify outcomes. After 19 years at global design firm IDEO, lastly as Partner – Executive Design Director, she coined her 2018 “creative sabbatical” before opting to consult. She loves shaping content, helping founders articulate their offer, and programming workshops with others to unlock individual and collective impact.

Raymond Ansotegui

Facilitation Consultant/Hospitality/Storytelling / _ / Livingston MT

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Raymond was born and raised in Montana where his love for nature lead him down the educational path of reclaiming disturbed lands. His fascination with soil/plant/wildlife communities, interactions, and conservation keeps his hands in the dirt. He spent 10 years as a rodeo bullfighter finding flow while dancing with bulls; which ultimately brought him to the TEDx stage. His work with non profits in recent years has inspired Raymond to further his facilitation skills so he can help others find themselves fully and succeed in the dreams they have, often through the lens of storytelling.

Pete Strom

CFO / MagDrive Technologies INC / BOZEMAN Montana

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Pete is a people, process & culture nerd. He brings an adult development lens to facilitating experiences and elevating individual & team performance. His cleantech venture is the first emissions free valve solution for Energy & Aerospace industries. Pete facilitates, coaches & consults through TILT with small start ups to multinational corporations. He helps design and facilitate HATCH experiences and supports the training of its facilitation team. His spiritual endeavors are playing hockey, parenting, Zen practice, and living with stage 4 cancer… roughly in that order

Mark Goerner

Founder / Eqogo / SANTA BARBARA CA

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I thrive when living an artful existence creating solutions for an optimistic future. My work centers around comprehensive design, systems thinking, and the arts. Iv’e contributed concept design-work to the automotive, gaming, theme park, movie and tech. industries for 30 years. It’s my love of nature, experience with manufacturing and interest in bettering humanity that inspired me to found Eqogo, a robust platform to evaluate and rate products on their social, environmental and quality attributes. I seek to make the pursuit of transparency a contagion for irreversible change.

Jared Silverman

COO / HATCH / Prescott AZ

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As COO of HATCH and HATCH Studios, Jared focuses on educating, accelerating, and investing in entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental challenges. He develops and implements strategies to collaborate with individuals, corporations, and foundations, scaling HATCH's global impact while fostering connections among diverse groups. Jared is interested in the history and theory of psychology, and is a Certified Sommelier. He is the contact for anyone looking to engage with HATCH.

Matthew Meyerl

Entrepreneur, Event Producer, Wildfire Management Specialist / Adventure Monkeys, Spatial Informatics Group, US Forest Service / Quincy California

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Art and creativity are at the forefront to Matt's approach for life and his concepts and proposals range from Wildland Fire Defense Systems to curating and performing at spaces for live musicians and artists. Matt is also interested in entrepreneurship and serves at-risk communities through his company Adventure Monkeys, and emerging non-profit, The Enrichment Collaborative for Community and Individual Development. Matt also has a passion for wildland firefighting and forest management, and consults for environmental think tank Spatial Informatics Group as a Fire Management Specialist.

Chris Denson

HOST, AUTHOR, INNOVATION ADVOCATE / Visionology / BOZEMAN Montana

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Chris has spent his career building better companies, launching new ideas, and giving rise to cultural tastemakers through awe-inspired experiences, content, and advisory. Echoing an award-winning career across entertainment, industrial, media and technology industries, Chris has valuable insights, practices, and resources to thrive in an always-evolving cultural landscape. He has done this alongside the UN, Fast Company, Omnicom Media Group, MullenLowe, Cannes Lions, The Nyah Project, HubSpot, and and authored the 2018 #1 bestselling book, 10 Essential Rules for Breaking Essential Rules.