Ray Hutchins
Board Member

Ray Hutchins has a business person's perspective on risk management. He runs multiple risk management companies and Ray knows the problems....and the solutions. He is engaged in a myriad of cyber and risk management issues for clients. As Ray sees it, the challenge is not identifying the problems, but marshalling the management and other support required to fix those problems. Ray speaks IT and the dialects of cyber, privacy and risk. Ray gives your board the ability to truly grapple with these issues.

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Areas of Expertise

Strategy
Leadership
Risk Fluency
Risk Compliance
Articulation
Execution

Ray Hutchins - Bio

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As Ray Hutchins tells the story, he was born at an early age in Vienna, Austria. He has traveled extensively, and his various global experiences have shaped his mentality today. Always an eager and successful student, Ray studied at schools around the world, but his goal of law school was interrupted by the Vietnam war–and a life-long love of flying.

During his service as a U.S.A.F. pilot, he was recognized for his flying skills and trained both U.S. allies’ pilots and the first class of female aviators in the military. After serving, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his father and become an entrepreneur. Over the next several decades, he founded, operated, and exited a wide-range of SMB for-profit and non-profit ventures. Included in these, was the Austin Children’s Cancer Center, which treated children with cancer and their families–regardless of their ability to pay. It was also the first pediatric oncology out-patient clinic in the world to offer psychological support to patients and their families as a standard part of the care and treatment. In addition, Ray owned and operated companies in the retail, medical, import, and digital marketing spheres.

Always a futurist, Ray rightly perceived in 2014 the inherent vulnerability of the global IT infrastructure, so he shape-shifted one more time by self-schooling himself on the CISSP certification. This seminal event gave Ray the technical language and skills required to understand and manage a cybersecurity company…the entree into what was then a budding cybersecurity industry. Via Ray’s strong professional network (as President and Chairman of the Board, he orchestrated the renaissance and success of TiE Rockies) Ray was soon introduced to Mitch Tanenbaum. The two quickly teamed up, and the rest is history.

In addition to serving as leader of multiple companies offering a wide range of risk management products and services, Ray was successful in persuading the National Association of Certified Valuators (NACVA) to incorporate cybersecurity and privacy considerations into company valuations.

Additionally, Ray led a public effort to persuade the Department of Defense to alter its published strategy to protect the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) from cyber attack. Today, he is focused on using Elon Musk’s five-step engineering methodology to reduce risk and increase valuation of client companies and to expand Huttan Holding’s asset base.

Ray Hutchins has served on and led multiple boards. He understands boards and what it takes to be an effective board member.

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"My dear partner Ray Hutchins very kindly refers to me as some kind of "cyber super force." I can assure you that technical people like me cannot make things happen in this world unless they have people like Ray. Ray understands the technologies and he understands technologists. Ray is the entrepreneurial driving force behind our companies and how we tell our unique success story to the world. Any board concerned about risk management will benefit from having this visionary leader on their team. "

--Mitch Tanenbaum, Partner, Huttan Holding, LLC

Ray Hutchins Explains Why How He Can Support Your Board

In Ray's opinion, the most valuable board members are not those that have tangental or past cybersecurity experience. Ray thinks the best board members are those who are is actively engaged in cybersecurity and privacy today. How else do you stay current? He also believes that the best member is one is actively backed up by a team of practicing cybersecurity and risk management professionals. It is difficult to argue with Ray's logic on this matter.