James A. Hyatt Biography

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

James A. Hyatt came to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in 2004 as the university's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Hyatt also serves as Executive Vice President of the Virginia Tech Foundation and serves on the boards of other university related corporations. Mr. Hyatt is a member of the Hotel Roanoke Conference Center Commission and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Policy Advisory Board and is the President of the World Institute for Disaster Risk Management, Inc.

Mr. Hyatt received both his bachelors degree in English, and his masters in business administration degree, in accounting and operations and systems analysis from The University of Washington. He began his career in 1976 in the budget and planning area at the University of Washington at Seattle. From 1979 to 1987, he served in a number of positions at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), the professional association for higher education business and finance officers, including Interim Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and as Director of its Financial Management Center, the association's research and policy arm. From 1987 to 1991, he served as Assistant Vice President and chief planning and budget officer at the University of Maryland at College Park. From 1991 to 2004, he served at the University of California at Berkeley as the Associate Chancellor for Budget and Planning, the Vice Chancellor for Resource Planning and Budget, and most recently as the Vice Chancellor for Budget and Finance.

Mr. Hyatt is the author of a number of books on higher education financial management and is a recognized authority on college and university budgeting and cost accounting.