# Joel Hyatt

> Joel Hyatt is Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Globality, Inc., an AI-powered autonomous sourcing platform serving Fortune 500 enterprises. A serial entrepreneur who pioneered affordable legal services through Hyatt Legal Services in the 1970s and co-founded Current TV with Al Gore in 2005 (sold to Al Jazeera for $500M in 2013), Hyatt has spent five decades disrupting incumbent industries. Globality, founded in 2015 with co-founder Lior Delgo, has raised $357M and deploys AI agents to help enterprises reduce procurement costs by 10-20% while capturing 60-90% operational efficiency gains.

- **Role:** Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder at Globality, Inc.
- **Organizations:** Globality, Inc., Current TV, Hyatt Legal Services, Hyatt Legal Plans, VideoSurf, Democratic National Committee
- **From:** United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, History (Phi Beta Kappa), Dartmouth College, Juris Doctor, Yale Law School
- **Known for:** Co-founded Hyatt Legal Services, which became the country's largest provider of employer-sponsored group legal services, Twice named to National Law Journal's list of 100 most powerful lawyers in the US, Co-founded Current TV with Al Gore - won Emmy, Peabody, Webby, DuPont, and Livingston Awards

## Career timeline

- **1975** — Graduated Yale Law School; joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as associate
- **1977** — Co-founded Hyatt Legal Services with wife Susan, offering affordable legal services to working Americans
- **1994** — Democratic Senate nominee for Ohio, lost general election to Michael DeWine
- **2000** — Served as Democratic National Finance Chair
- **2005** — Co-founded Current TV with Al Gore, pioneering user-generated cable television content
- **2007** — Current TV won Emmy Award for Best Interactive Television Service at 59th Primetime Emmy Awards
- **2011** — VideoSurf (Joel Hyatt was chairman) acquired by Microsoft
- **2013** — Current TV sold to Al Jazeera Media Network for $500 million
- **2015** — Co-founded Globality, Inc. with Lior Delgo to build AI-powered enterprise procurement platform
- **2024** — Globality raised $47M Series D; featured at World Economic Forum Davos; named Momentum Award winner at Fall Procurement Tech Roundtables

## Achievements

- Co-founded Hyatt Legal Services, which became the country's largest provider of employer-sponsored group legal services
- Twice named to National Law Journal's list of 100 most powerful lawyers in the US
- Co-founded Current TV with Al Gore - won Emmy, Peabody, Webby, DuPont, and Livingston Awards
- Sold Current TV to Al Jazeera Media Network for $500 million in 2013
- Raised $357+ million for Globality to build AI-powered autonomous sourcing platform
- Lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School
- Globality named Innovative Enterprise Product of the Year at National Technology News Awards 2023

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Globality closed $47M Series D funding round
- **2024-10** — Globality earned inaugural Momentum Award at Fall 2024 Procurement Tech Roundtables
- **2024-01** — Joel Hyatt featured at World Economic Forum Davos 2024 as part of WEF Innovators Community
- **2023-12** — Globality named Innovative Enterprise Product of the Year at National Technology News Awards

## Links

- Website: https://joelhyatt.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-hyatt-7a959943
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/joelhyatt

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Last updated: 2026-05-12