
Patrick Van Horne
Co-founder & CEO
Boulder, Colorado
Patrick leads Hazzard's strategy, operations, customer development, and go-to-market efforts. His career has focused on helping organizations understand risk, prepare for uncertainty, and make better decisions before consequences become unavoidable.
A former Marine Corps infantry officer, Patrick later co-authored Left of Bang and went on to work across emergency management, disaster response, consulting, training, and preparedness. He co-founded The CP Journal, where his work with emergency managers, public safety agencies, local governments, and other organizations helped surface the problem Hazzard is built to address: critical risk information is often fragmented across plans, assessments, studies, departments, consultants, and institutional knowledge.
At Hazzard, Patrick focuses on ensuring the platform reflects how organizations actually understand, communicate, and manage risk — and delivers practical value to the people responsible for making those decisions.
- Co-founder, Active Analysis Consulting — hazard mitigation and risk assessment engagements
- Co-author, Left of Bang; led Combat Hunter training at the School of Infantry
- U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer — platoon and company leadership, Iraq deployments
- Team Rubicon Boulder area team leader; panel member, ACRP 03-68 contingency planning
