About HYDER Industries

Christopher Hytry Derrington
Chief Executive Officer

I am a serial entrepreneur. It's in my blood.

I love solving the complex problems of how to take a new technology to market; building the team, investing seed capital, arranging the angel funding, and setting up the new entity for rapid growth. Fun Stuff!

I'm focused on creating jobs in rural USA. My home base company is HYDER Industries – a start-up and development company with a portfolio of technology and gourmet food companies. Constantly seeking new opportunities and acquisitions, I have served as CEO or interim CEO in 18 companies over the past 23 years.

I have founded and led both start-ups and well-established companies such as Renee's Specialties, Referrals2Sales, Brand My Email, Rural America Onshore Outsourcing, Alta Financial Technologies, IsoTruss Composite Manufacturing, Wind Tower Composites, Safari Beach Software, and Terra Aerospace. Current nonprofit endeavors include TechShore.org, a technology association along Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan coast.

The common theme of my endeavors has been to create shareholder value, ranging from start-ups created to address market opportunities, to providing interim leadership to companies on the edge of insolvency seeking to find a way out, to advising well-established enterprises in need of fresh perspective.

I frequently write for local and national media when they can't find anyone else. Formal education was at Missouri University of Science and Technology where I earned a BS in Engineering Management-Aerospace Engineering. MBA from Entrepreneur School of Hard Knocks.