Dennis Hayes

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Dennis Hayes (born 1950) was the founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products, a maker of modems mostly known for introducing the Hayes command set which has subsequently been used in most modems produced to this day.

In the 1970s he met Dale Heatherington (born 1948) at National Data Corporation in Atlanta. Together they developed and marketed the first high-quality IBM PC modem, and built the company named Hayes Communications around it. While Heatherington left the company early to retire, Hayes ran the company until it filed for bankruptcy in 1998 when the technology was incorporated into the products of competitors.

Hayes attended, but did not graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1973.^[1]

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