Janet Hill is a special advisor to Berkeley Research Group, LLC. She is a principal in Hill Family Advisors, where she oversees the family’s assets and investments. She retired as the co-owner and vice president of Alexander & Associates, Inc., a corporate consulting firm in Washington, D.C., after 30 years in management and ownership. She provided corporate planning, advice, and analyses to directors, executives, and managers in the areas of human resource planning, corporate responsibility, corporate communications, and government consultation.

From 1978 to 1981, Mrs. Hill was the special assistant to the Secretary of the Army. She advised the secretary on specific positions prior to policy decisions; formulated programs to improve and enhance soldier quality of life; prepared speeches for public presentation and testimony for Congressional hearings; served as a liaison to the office of the Secretary of Defense, the White House, Congress, and other government agencies; and prepared briefing and position papers on issues affecting soldiers, material readiness, and operations and maintenance.

Prior to her work for the Army, Mrs. Hill was a scientist with a private consulting firm in the Washington, D.C. area. She was responsible for data analysis regarding ambient noise levels and shipping distributions; coordination and analysis of technical evaluations of noise levels in the perfection of sonar detection systems; design of ship movement models under contract to the U.S. Navy; the research and editing of environmental regional assessments in the Northeast Pacific and Northeast Atlantic for various Navy intelligence units; and the development of computer programs to evaluate data on Soviet submarine surveillance.

Mrs. Hill is a member of the Boards of Directors of Sprint Nextel, Inc.; Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, Inc.; and Dean Foods, Inc. Mrs. Hill is also a vice president of Hill Ventures, Inc., her son’s real estate investment business.

Mrs. Hill has served on three boards from which she retired at the time of the sale of the underlying companies: Tambrands, Inc. (which was sold to Proctor & Gamble); Security Capital Group, Inc. (which was sold to G.E. Capital); and Houghton Mifflin Company (which was sold to Vivendi International). She served as a public member of the New York Cotton Exchange for four years ending in 1992.

Mrs. Hill is a member of the Board of Trustees of Duke University. She also serves on the Board of the Wellesley Business Leadership Council and the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
 

Education

• University of Chicago
  M.A., Mathematics
• Wellesley College
  B.A., Mathematics