Chad Hayton

Chad Hayton is Vice President of Technology at Pace Communications, where he leads the team that plans, builds, and operates the agency’s web platforms and digital products. He partners with clients and with creative, content, and analytics leaders to turn brand strategies into high-performing experiences that are easy to run and deliver measurable results.

Chad first joined Pace in 2009 and led the digital practice for nearly a decade, delivering solutions for brands including AAA, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Pepsi, Trulia, Verizon, and Wells Fargo. In 2019, he moved to Seattle for a five-year tour of duty at Amazon Web Services where he led engineering teams for AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS Batch, owning business-critical services running at global scale across 30+ regions. Chad returned to Pace in 2024, where he leads the technology agenda end to end—setting technical strategy, standing up delivery practices, and coaching a high-performing engineering organization. Day to day, he aligns design systems, content operations, and data insights so teams can ship confidently and clients see gains in speed, stability, and impact.