Patrick Hardy is founder and CEO of Dysaster, the largest small business disaster management company in the U.S. A Certified Emergency Manager®, and Master Business Continuity Professional®, he has been a disaster professional for over twenty years. In the summer of 2012, he became the youngest person ever selected as the National Private Sector Representative to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He is now a content creator and YouTuber who takes on the most difficult disaster challenges in the world, such as doing CPR for 28 hours straight, evacuating 240 cats in 90 minutes, and building the world’s first emergency structure out of Lego blocks.

In 2024, Patrick published his first book, Design any Disaster: The Revolutionary Method to Master Your Next Crisis or Emergency  from publisher Benbella Books.