Simon Hill

Sector activity: Industrial – Media & Entertainment – Technology – Real Estate & Construction – Financial Services – Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical & Healthcare – Business & Professional Services – Board Services

Simon Hill, Hill Coates’ Managing Consultant, is fascinated by learning about different businesses though our assignment briefing process and the associated research. He is passionate not just about placing the right leader into the right business but also about finding the right business for the right investor and the right management team to lead it. The same skills of brief-taking, focused research, applied networking, strategic thinking and negotiation are essential for both activities. It is Simon’s realisation of this and his drive that has made Hill Coates such a rare combination of a deal origination and executive search boutique.

Simon recognises executive search’s evolution from management consultancy and sees deal origination, with its emphasis on strategy, as a logical extension of this. Simon leads searches for investee companies and the management teams to run them for both for private equity and private investors.

Leadership and the vital contribution it makes is another passion which Simon was able to see at work in his time with the British Army, principally as a Reservist officer. Simon has continued to support the Services community though, until recently, twenty years as Chairman of The Rifles Officers’ Club (London) and as an active supporter of Combat Stress, the veterans’ mental health charity. Simon is also a director and trustee of the Emmaus Leadership Programme.

Simon is married to Sally and they have a number of interests spanning country sports, the outdoors, food and wine, the arts and their local church. They live with their two dogs in a Georgian farmhouse in Oxfordshire.

Industrial

The British Isles manufacturing output accounts for nearly 80% of its exports although heavy industry, such as steelmaking, has had to become significantly more efficient in order to survive. The British aerospace industry is in the world’s top 3 and the automotive industry is a major employer and exporter with 8 global car manufacturers being […]

Media & Entertainment

Media and Entertainment is exploding as an exciting and fast-growing sector within the UK economy. More people than not have mobile access to the internet and this enables consumers not only to download or stream content but to curate their own music, videos and games collections as well as to shop and receive news updates […]