As president of Helios Consulting, Sam Hill works with very senior executives on the topics of growth strategy, marketing, and brands. In its second full year, Helios reached revenues of $2.5 million. It has a staff of ten, offices in New York and Chicago, and a client list that includes Young & Rubicam, TXY, Compaq, eGM, Alcoa, Brigg's & Stratton, Zebra technologies, and HarperCollins.
Sam spends his time working with clients, writing, and speaking. His work has appeared in Strategy & Business, Estrategia & Negocios, The Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and has been featured in Business 2.0, the New York Times. In 2001, his occasional commentaries for Fortune Small Business magazine will become a column. Sam's first book, Radical Marketing, co-written with Glenn Rifkin and published in 1998, is now in its fifth printing and is being translated into seven languages. It was named one of Fortune's Best Business Books of 1999. In a typical year, he speaks to some ten thousand executives at twenty-five major forums in seven countries.
Before cofounding Helios, Sam was vice chairman and chief strategic officer in New York at D'Arcy, the world's twelth largest advertising agency and chief marketing officer and lead partner at Booz•Allen & Hamilton in Chicago and Sydney, Australia. He began his career at Kraft General Foods as an engineer and later served as director of international strategy. He has a degree in engineering from the University of Georgia and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. He lives with his wife and teenage children in Winnetka, Illinois.