Robert Hatta

Hatta (HOT-tuh), as he's known to his friends, is the Talent Partner at Drive Capital, a VC focused on innovative companies throughout the Midwest. He is also a partner at Hatch (which stands for "help at the critical hour"), a partnership that helps entrepreneurs bring ideas to market by offering coaching, connections, and capital. Most recently, Hatta served as the interim COO at Tackk, a Hatch portfolio company that is bringing simple content creation to the web.

Previously, while designing and launching consumer products for companies like Virgin Mobile, Netflix and Apple, Hatta developed a passion for talent, culture and building high-performance teams. Before all that, he went to Stanford, where he met a lot of smart people.