Jeremy Hitchcock

Hitchcock was born in Rochester, New York and grew up in Bedford, New Hampshire. After graduating from Manchester’s West High School Hitchcock attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), graduating with a BS in Management Information Systems.

Hitchcock began his academic career at WPI by studying chemistry but in his sophomore year, he teamed up with fellow students Tim Wilde, Chris Reinhardt and Tom Daly to work on a remote access project. This project became known as Dyn.

Hitchcock started Dyn in his dorm room at Worcester Polytechnic in 2001 and led the Internet performance management company from its headquarters in Manchester, N.H. upon graduation, bootstrapping it for more than 10 years before raising its first funding, a $38 million Series A in 2012 from North Bridge Venture Partners.^[3] Hitchcock resigned from the business in May 2016 ^[4] prior to the Oracle acquisition,^[5] which officially closed on January 31, 2017.

In late December 2010, Dyn made international news when they chose no longer direct traffic to controversial website Wikileaks.org. At the time, Wikileaks was under intense international scrutiny over its disclosure of classified U.S. diplomatic cables and had become the focus of cyberattacks. After consulting with coworkers, customers, and industry experts, Hitchcock made the difficult decision to sever ties with the group, citing its threat to the other 500,000 websites that use its free service.^[6]

In October 2016, Dyn was again in the news after they were at the center of the largest DDoS attack using IoT devices infected with Mirai malware, which temporarily disabled parts of the internet; this caused outages at Twitter, Comcast, Spotify, and Visa, among other major platforms.

Seeing how vulnerable Dyn was after the botnet attacks Jeremy co-founded Minim, an AI-driven WiFi management and Internet of Things (IoT) security platform for service providers.^[7]

Hitchcock served as former Chair of the Board of Manchester Moves, a volunteer organization working to connect the City of Manchester to the rest of the state via rail trails and greenways.  The Hitchcock family also makes charitable donations to the New Hampshire Food Bank and Families in Transition.^[8] With his family, Jeremy established the donor-advised Hitchcock Family Fund through the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, which provides financial support to a range of organizations including several children’s charities.^[9]

Co-Chair for the Workforce Development Committee at the New Hampshire Tech Alliance [9]. He also formerly served as trustee to the Community College System of New Hampshire.^[10]

Jeremy was a leading voice behind the pioneering STEAM Ahead NH initiative that is modernizing public education in New Hampshire. [11]