Richard Hill | Bio
Richard is a social entrepreneur who is Founder & CEO of VoteOurVoice, and Chairman of Hill Industries, an investment company that makes principal investments in privately held companies in manufacturing, construction, and technology industries. He has 20 years combined fixed income trading, investment banking ad consulting, real estate, and business development experience in corporate finance and capital markets. Mr. Hill worked at Citigroup (as a VP in Structured Finance), Barclays Capital (as a bond trader), and CBRE (as an industrial real estate broker). He completed structured finance transactions valued at $16.5 billion, had management responsibilities for trading books valued at over $300 million, and marketed 1.4 million square feet of commercial real estate. He was also a senior partner in the merchant banking firm, Quantum Capital Partners, LLC, where he was the Financial Advisor to Forest City Ratner Companies for their $4.5 billion mixed use project (which includes the 20,000 seat Barclays Center) in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Hill has a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from New York University, an MBA from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Irvine.