Hilbrich Group

Acquisition and leadership of marketing communications companies to bring more and better services to clients.

CEO | Founder | Investor l Business Turnaround Expert l Author l Coach

I have combined four decades of experience into instant insight. To help businesses create good times out of bad and to learn from the mistakes I made to help amplify their success.

Executive Coach

Global organization of company Presidents who believe in education, idea exchange and family work/life balance. Have held many officer, day chair and global champion roles.

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The Sandbox Agency

Our vision is to create a global challenger agency. Sandbox not only creates great work and executes flawlessly—we focus on the important and undervalued virtue in the agency business of playing together nicely in the sandbox. After growing from a startup to $62MM in revenue, Sandbox successfully combined with MERGE in March 2020.

Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO

Brandimage - Desgrippes & LAGA

Acquired Brandimage - Desgrippes & Laga, one of the world’s largest design firms, was formed from the combination of Desgrippes Gobé, a global design firm, and laga, a leading American design and innovation agency. With a team of experts in the U.S. Europe and Asia, Brandimage offers holistic services designed to deliver rich emotional brand experiences for consumers, from brand strategy and consumer insight, to brand identity, industrial design, package design, graphics, innovation, interactive, retail experience and architecture in one integrated offering. Brandimage was acquired by Schawk in October 2011.

Owner and CEO

The Marketing Store

Global promotional marketing communications agency with offices in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, U.K., France, Australia and China serving McDonald's, Nissan, Diageo, Vodafone and Coca Cola. Having created the awesome team that grew The Marketing Store Canada from a startup to $25MM in revenue, earned TMS global agency of the year three years in a row and achieved a top 5 independent agency status in Canada, I moved to the role of Global President of the company.

Global President

Leo Burnett

Started my career at Leo Burnett in Chicago and moved on to Burnett offices in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Canada in various senior leadership positions while growing the agency and client business for Kellogg's, Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, Heinz, Fruit of the Loom, Glad and McDonald's. Although I loved working with many major multinational clients, I especially enjoyed successfully leading smaller, more entrepreneurial offices in Leo Burnett International. Having experienced helping clients navigate the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and executing turnarounds in smaller offices in Scandinavia, I developed my deep love of the agency business and the people who work so hard to make it tick.

Senior Vice President

CEO | Entrepreneur | Investor | Author | Executive Coach

Leaders need perspective and broader thinking to create success. I can help you achieve that success. 

After almost three decades as a CEO, entrepreneur and investor, I have navigated organizations large and small, struggled through recessions and successfully managed companies to success who were once drowning in poor management or deeply in debt. I have grown business organically and through acquisition; and I have exited two companies as an entrepreneur.

I have seen a lot. I'm not perfect. I have struggled and laid awake many nights to try to figure out the right answer. 

My passion is to serve. That is why I have combined four decades of experience into days of learning for you. To help you create good times out of bad, to help you learn from the mistakes I made and to help you amplify your success. 

I will engage in your success. I will help you turn your company around. I will sell your company. I will invest in or purchase your company. 

If I have entered the conversation you are already having in your head, I would be privileged to chat with you.

John Hilbrich

Cognizant

Technical Architect

Content Creator

Tata Consultancy Services

> Automating the approval process of thousands of APIs, by integrating Sharepoint, Bitbucket, SwaggerHub, APIGEE, Jenkins, etc. using Java 11, Spring Boot. 
> Understanding the pain points of reusing hundreds of micro-services and providing clients, with appropriate solutions at scale. 
> Automating migration process of open API 2.0 to 3.0.

Senior Software Engineer

> Web application development in Agile team in SAFE/Kanban way, using Java 11, Spring boot for back-end development, Postgres
for database, Docker containerization, and Kubernetes for orchestration using Rancher as a wrapper, Terraform Vault as a secret
manager. Source code maintenance using Git and deployment using Azure DevOps and testing using Junit and Mockito. 
> Taking part in the initial discussion with the client regarding the requirements and designing the solutions with other architects. 
> Helping a team of 14 developers in resolving their queries and reviewing their code in the Azure DevOps platform. Ensuring quality code is delivered after each sprint.

Technical Lead

> Developed various functionalities like Policy History, Policy Reinstatement, etc using Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Angular
8,9,10,11,12,13, Apache Camel, and Postgresql in an agile environment. 
> Optimized Database Performance. 
> Helped team members to achieve their tasks. Reviewed team member's code in Bitbucket/Azure DevOps.

Full Stack Engineer

> Developed various projects using Java 7,8, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Angular 4,5,6,7,8 related to insurance quote and invoice
generation. 
> Directly communicate with the client for requirement gathering to product creation. Managing various applications. Guided team members from design to implementation.
> Created custom no code solution using Angular and SurveyJs.

Developed a Common Kiosk application present at the airport for self-check-in using JAVA, Spring Webflow, and SOAP web services.

Back End Developer

I demystify human behavior | Curious Creative Writer | Senior Associate @Cognizant | Ex TCSer

Pradipta Gure is a curious creative writer. He watches people silently. He loves to see their expressions, their spending pattern, their way of acquiring knowledge, and their path to a specific philosophy. That's why, his content is around human psychology, microeconomics and philosophy. 

Books do help in this process. He loves to receive books from his friends, and he equally enjoy giving books as gifts to those close to him.

He loves to solve business problems with his strong technical skillset. He loves mentoring his colleagues silently, without them even realizing it. Culture is a bi product that he delivers to his organization.

He is trying to be a CEO of his own MIND. His philosophies are inclined with Naval Ravikant, Kapil Gupta, Nithin Kamath and Dr. Kailash Nadh. 

He is exploring what he could be in the future. The goal post keeps on shifting towards something else. He wants to sail along with it.

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