
Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area
Hugh is a highly accomplished, award-winning Marketing Strategist with over 20 years experience developing and implementing innovative business and marketing plans that drive profitability through customer relationship engagement and management.
He has a proven track record of enabling business growth for brands including Citi, American Express, HSBC, Sears, AT&T, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Shell, GTE, Kraft Foods and Nestle.
His agency experience includes Grey Direct, Ogilvy & Mather, Euro RSCG Worldwide and JWT for whom he has worked and lived in New York City, London, Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago. Before joining Ogilvy (for the 3rd time) in 2009, he was managing his marketing consultancy practice, Marketing Independence, Inc, which he founded in 2005. Hugh is also an Adjunct Professor of Marketing and Advertising at DePaul University primarily because he wants to inspire future generations of marketers.
Hugh is a graduate of Southern Methodist University (’87) and currently lives in Chicago with his wife and two “tween” children. You can follow Hugh on Twitter @hughru.