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In 2018, Hatter was awarded the Bark Certificate of Excellence for his life coaching services. As a writer, Hatter has written about life coaching and personal development, and his contributions have featured on Arianna Huffington's ThriveGlobal, Metro and The Good Men Project.
Hatter founded the in-game advertising company, giftgaming. In 2014, giftgaming was named the winner of TechCrunch London Meetup and was a participant on TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 2014. In 2015, he later raised £35,000 via the Seedrs crowdfunding platform.
In January 2015, Sir Paul Judge, founder of Cambridge Judge Business School, led an investment committee that gave giftgaming an £8,000 grant. In March 2017, giftgaming raised a third round of investment at a £1.7 million valuation.
Later in January 2018, Hatter announced that he was resigning as CEO and shutting down the company to focus on life coaching.
Hatter was born in Bristol. From the age of 13-years-old, Hatter gained computer programming skills by creating video games with DarkBASIC, and later, graduated with a First in BSc (Hons) Computer Science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
After graduating, Hatter left Southampton to work for Netcraft as Internet Services Developer. During his time at Netcraft, he discovered a unique phishing attack where the attackers were using live chat to defraud eBay customers. In December 2013, Hatter moved to Cambridge, where he founded in-game advertising company giftgaming and was the CEO for 4 years.
In January 2018, Hatter announced that he was shutting down giftgaming to focus on his life coaching career. In December 2018, Hatter filed a legal claim against estate agency Marsh & Parsons and his previous landlady for just under £10,000 in damages over being allegedly missold a rented flat and “excessive noise” at his home in Notting Hill, London.
