The Team

Built by operators who lived the problem.

Kai Hoyt

Co-founder

Kai Hoyt

Bio

Kai spent more than a decade in digital health and employer-benefits consulting, building and leading client success teams. His work at Regen8 focuses on the commercial and human operating model: how better context helps people decide, serve customers, and grow relationships.

Javan Ward

Co-founder

Javan Ward

Bio

Javan is a five-time founder whose background spans operating consulting, company building, operating architecture, and agentic systems. His work at Regen8 focuses on turning a company’s operating knowledge into architecture it can own and improve.

Kurt Hopfer

Chief Technology Officer

Kurt Hopfer

Bio

Kurt has spent 20+ years as a chief technologist building enterprise systems that ship and scale. He pairs a deep engineering foundation with a sales executive’s ability to translate technical decisions into business outcomes, a rare combination that lets him operate fluently from the engineer’s desk to the boardroom. At Regen8 he leads the agentic engineering bench, sets the technical architecture for every client engagement, and makes sure the systems we build today are the ones our clients can run tomorrow.

Preston Callicott

Strategic Advisor

Preston Callicott

Bio

Preston is a four-time operator turned founder who built and successfully exited Five Talent Software to Effectual in 2020. His earlier career spanned executive roles at Hewlett Packard, AMD, and Price Waterhouse, where he learned how large organizations actually move and where they get stuck. He calls himself a Tech Humanist: someone convinced that AI and quantum computing can solve daunting problems, but only through a sea change in how companies, teams, and leaders evolve alongside the tech.

Dan Vetras

Strategic Advisor

Dan Vetras

Bio

Dan has spent 30+ years turning B2B technology companies into market leaders. He has been CEO four times over, most recently at Kollective Technology, before that at Visible Technologies, Talisma, and Captura, with earlier executive sales roles at IBM and Lotus. He knows what it takes to build a world-class team, instill an innovative culture, and win Fortune 500 customers. He advises Regen8 on go-to-market strategy, enterprise sales motion, and the operational rigor required to scale from early traction to durable revenue.

Mark Tindall

Advisor

Mark Tindall

Bio

Mark is an enterprise strategist who has spent three decades helping Fortune 500 companies translate digital ambition into operational reality. He has led transformations at scale across telecommunications, financial services, and technology, building customer experience and marketing capabilities that drive measurable business outcomes. His work sits at the intersection of technology strategy, organizational design, and customer-centric operations, in the messy reality of enterprise change where legacy systems, siloed teams, and competing priorities collide. He advises Regen8 on enterprise go-to-market strategy, complex stakeholder engagement, and building solutions that work within the constraints of large organizations.

Also on staff

The dogs.

Revel

Chief Bone Inspector

Revel

Revel is equal parts beauty and havoc. When she steps into the room you better pay attention. Her endless love of flying frisbees and keen attention to Kai make her an irreplaceable asset here at Regen8.

Koa

Dogfather-in-Residence

Koa

Koa plays a pivotal role as the chief energizer. He brings a get it done attitude regardless of the cost. His favorite activities include sprinting full speed for no reason, ball retrieving, and the instigation of total chaos.

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