1. Joel Hyatt later founded Hyatt Legal Plans, which became the country's largest provider of employer-sponsored group legal services, pioneering the concept of Legal Services as a fringe benefit.
16 Facts About Joel Hyatt
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Joel Hyatt was a founding member of the US Senate Democratic Leadership Circle and was a member of that group from 1981 to 1986.
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Joel Hyatt was the Democratic National Committee's assistant treasurer from 1981 to 1983.
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Joel Hyatt is the son-in-law of Howard Metzenbaum, former United States Senator for Ohio.
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Joel Hyatt was Metzenbaum's campaign manager for his first two successful bids for the Senate.
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Joel Hyatt won the Democratic nomination, but lost to then Lieutenant Governor of Ohio Michael DeWine in the general election, in a campaign year in which Republicans swept all twelve of the Senate vacancies and unseated many incumbents.
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Joel Hyatt is known to have expressed his disappointment in his own firm's handling of the case, and of its treatment of Mr Cain.
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Joel Hyatt was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission in June 1999, by Governor Gray Davis.
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Joel Hyatt served six months of a six-year term, resigning in December 1999.
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Joel Hyatt served as National Finance Chair for the Democratic party in 2000, and is a business partner of former US Vice President Al Gore In 2004, Joel Hyatt and Gore purchased Newsworld International, a cable news channel, programmed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which aired news programming from around the world.
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Joel Hyatt taught entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of Business from 1998 to 2003 and at Stanford Law school.
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Joel Hyatt is a member of the board of trustees of Morehouse College and of The Brookings Institution.
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Joel Hyatt was elected to the board of directors of Hewlett-Packard Company in May 2007, and of The RAND Corporation in March 2015.
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Joel Hyatt is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Joel Hyatt was an investor in and chairman of VideoSurf, a computer vision search engine that was acquired by Microsoft in 2011.
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Joel Hyatt was co-founded by Joel Hyatt and Lior Delgo in March 2015.