Graham Hill

Current

• VP Interactive Planet Green at Discovery Communications
• Talent at Discovery Communications
• Founder, CEO at ExceptionLab Inc.

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Past

• Founder, CEO at TreeHugger Inc.
• General Manager, Director of Information Architecture at Bowne
• Co-CEO at Sitewerks

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Education

• Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
• Carleton University
• Schule Schloss Salem

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Industry

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Graham Hill’s Summary

Highly motivated individual with proven entrepreneurial and design success who has a passion for serving society via impactful, triple bottom line, for-profit businesses.

Graham Hill’s Specialties:

Taking a company from nothing to something.

Graham Hill’s Experience

• VP Interactive Planet Green

  Discovery Communications

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DISCA; Broadcast Media industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  I'm primarily the green web guy. Focused on working with the team to further fuel the momentum of TreeHugger.com and PlanetGreen.com. I also am a host or guest on various programs on the Planet Green channel which reaches 52,000,000 homes.
  
  TreeHugger and PlanetGreen sites reach over 3M unique visitors and 8M pageviews per month making them top visited environmental sites. TreeHugger is one of the top 20 most linked to blogs on the web.

• Talent

  Discovery Communications

  (Public Company; DISCA; Broadcast Media industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Over the past couple of years I have hosted 7 segments on Planet Green's G-Word, been a guest on Supper Club and have appeared in a great number of print, tv and online outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, Time and Vanity Fair. I am currently developing a full length non-fiction show to air on Planet Green. See http://www.youtube.com/dmazone for a handful of clips.

• Founder, CEO

  ExceptionLab Inc.

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years )

  I designed and then obtained an exclusive license to create and sell a ceramic version of the classic New York paper cup. Over 42,000 are sold yearly via 190 high-end design and museum stores worldwide including MOMA. More at http://www.wearehappytoserveyou.com

• Founder, CEO

  TreeHugger Inc.

  (Publishing industry)

  2003 — August 2007 (4 years )

  Conceptualized, funded, started, ran and sold TreeHugger.com to Discovery Communications.
  
  TreeHugger was entirely virtual and was managed from various cities around the world including Barcelona, Bangkok, Buenos Aires and New York.

• General Manager, Director of Information Architecture

  Bowne

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BNE; Printing industry)

  February 1998 — March 2000 (2 years 2 months)

  After Bowne acquired Sitewerks, I co-general-managed the Seattle office for about a year, then ran the Boston office for 4 months before replacing myself and moving to the New York office to run the cross-office Information Architecture group.

• Co-CEO

  Sitewerks

  (Publishing industry)

  May 1995 — February 1998 (2 years 10 months)

  Sitewerks was started mid-1995 by myself and my cousin Tish Hill. It was pre-Netscape browser and very early in terms of the graphical web. We landed a key Microsoft contract, did great work and were able to build the company from 2 to 60 people over the ensuing 3 years on cashflow.
  
  Sitewerks was an award-winning, full service web-shop with skills in design, project management and programming. It was sold to Bowne Inc. in February 2008 after discussions with circa 15 companies.

Graham Hill’s Education

• Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design

  Advanced Studies , Industrial Design , 1994 — 1995

  During Architecture school, I realized would have preferred studying Product Design but after 5 years of Architecture I knew I couldn't handle 4 more years of school. Therefore, I negotiated the ability to start in an upper year and pursued this for 1.5 years before being drawn to the web world in Seattle.
  
  At Emily Carr, I learned a significant amount about Industrial Design and honed my computer skills. One of my first projects was a set of click-in snowboard bindings foreshadowing their later release.

• Carleton University

  Bachelor of Architecture with Distinction , Architecture , 1987 — 1993

  Carleton was a top Architecture school in Canada and known for pushing their students very hard and for their creativity. It was an extremely intense 5 year bachelor program where I learned how to work very hard and the beauty of professions involving both art and science.

  Activities and Societies:

  Student council, Rowing team.

• Schule Schloss Salem

  German Exchange Program 1986 — 1987

  I was born in September and skipped a grade so was very young for my class and upon graduating from 12th grade did not feel confident in my choice of study. At that point, I was given the opportunity to do a free exchange to a high-end private school in a castle in Southern Germany. During my time there I learned German and was able to investigate many areas of interest as well as explore Europe.

  Activities and Societies:

  Photography, Architecture Internship, Track, Handball, Field Hockey, Rock Climbing.

Additional Information

Graham Hill’s Interests:

Squash, Kitesurfing, Surfing, Snowboarding, Skiing, Back-Country Skiing, Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking, Green, Social Entrepreneurship, Travel, Non-fiction Media, Evolutionary Psychology.

Graham Hill’s Groups:

Member of International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, Founding member of New York Alliance for Sustainability, Invitee TED Conferences, Advisory Board Member for Discovery Planet Green, Ponoko, Green Leaders, BetaCup, Sparkseed etc.

Graham Hill’s Honors:

TreeHugger:
Bloggie Nominations 2005, 2006, 2007.
Webby Finalist 2006 and Winner 2007.
Feedster Feed of the Year, Second Place 2006.
Vloggie Winner 2007.
Named Top 5 Blog by Time Inc.
Named 13th Most Powerful Blog by The Guardian.

Sitewerks:

Washington Software & Digital Media Alliance
Most Promising New Company
"Sitewerks Inc." at 1996 Industry Achievement Awards

Washington Software Alliance
Service Provider of the Year
"Sitewerks Inc." at 1997 Industry Achievement Awards

Personal:
Ultimate Green Game Changer Nominee (Huffington Post)
Cradle to Cradle Iceland Trip Invitee.
Cape Farewell Greenland Trip Invitee.
TED Conference Invitee.
Silicon Alley 100 2008.
EarthFirst Top 25 Top Hottest Guys in Green. :)
Governor General Award.
Awarded Exchange to Schule Schloss Salem, Germany.
Australian Outward Bound Scholarship.

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