Alice Hill Takes Helm at Hackbright Academy as New CEO
July 07 2017 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Tech Industry Leader Joins the Bay Area’s
Leading Women’s Engineering School to Accelerate Its Next Stage of
Growth and Advance Gender Equity in Technology
Hackbright Academy, the Bay Area’s leading engineering school
exclusively for women, today announced that Alice Hill has been
named its new chief executive officer. Formerly a senior executive
at acclaimed Silicon Valley companies including CNET, Slashdot,
SourceForge, Dice, and eBay, she assumes her position as Hackbright
continues to build and foster an exceptional experience for
students, alumnae and hiring partners alike. Over the last two
decades, Hill has been a leader in global innovation for the tech
industry, and brings extensive board-level and governance
expertise.
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Hackbright works to increase the number of role models for women
in tech, and Hill understands what it takes to blaze a path to the
top in the male-dominated technology industry. This makes her
uniquely capable of providing insight and direction for those who
wish to pursue careers in technology. Having run large-scale
engineering departments, and led globally recognized tech brands,
Hill has the knowledge and experience to translate strategy into
action and help prepare graduates to meet hiring partner needs. Her
personal passion to change the ratio of women in tech is an ideal
match as Hackbright looks to remove barriers for women to achieve
successful careers in software engineering.
“I am passionate about developing future women leaders in the
field of technology, and Hackbright is a rare place where women can
grow and thrive in an empowering environment,” said Hill. “At a
time when the issue of diversity in tech has never been more
crucial to our future, companies are ready for the tremendous
opportunity that more women engineers represents. An all-women
school amid too few options to learn and develop coding skills
among other bright, ambitious women, Hackbright’s culture stands
out for its focus on the tools, guidance, and mentorship to achieve
great things. Together we’re changing the ratio one woman at a
time.”
Hill has extensive industry expertise with large scale web
development, open source developer communities, online tech media,
product development, and technology recruiting platforms. Notably,
she previously served as CTO for eBay Classifieds’ Incubator
Markets and as head of eBay’s quality assurance center in Shanghai,
and is well known for her past leadership roles at outstanding tech
companies including serving as VP/general manager for CNET Networks
where she launched and ran many of CNET’s flagship online
businesses.
“As our search for a new CEO began, we considered the many
qualities essential in Hackbright’s next leader. Alice Hill stood
out as a visionary, an innovator, and a pragmatic problem solver
who understands both the challenges and opportunities of connecting
a skilled and ready workforce with hiring partners. We are proud to
have her on board,” said Kevin Gilligan, chairman and CEO of
Capella Education Company, the parent company of Hackbright
Academy.
Hill’s past work also includes executive roles with Slashdot
Media where she served as president, managing director at both
Dice.com and at Maker Media, widely known as the publisher of MAKE
Magazine and the producer of Maker Faire, and she headed up the IT
and online operations for Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). She
was a founder of business advice start-up Bizmore.com, a subsidiary
of Vistage International owned by Michael Milken, Thomson-Reuters
and Larry Ellison.
Winner of multiple awards for design, usability, and innovation,
Hill received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and Oxford
University, and is the author of more than 500 published articles
on technology and online media, including technology commentaries
for The New York Times, Businessweek, and dozens of other
technology and business publications.
About Hackbright Academy
Based in San Francisco, Hackbright Academy is the Bay Area’s
leading engineering school for women. Its mission is to increase
the representation of women in tech through education, mentorship
and community. Hackbright’s flagship fellowship is a 12-week
immersive software development program where women learn the skills
to become full-time software engineers. Hackbright alumnae are
represented at companies including Eventbrite, SurveyMonkey, New
Relic, GoDaddy, Amazon, and Pinterest. Hackbright is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Capella Education Company (NASDAQ: CPLA).
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