Mr. Hill was appointed as CEO of the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC), now trading as Export Barbados (BIDC) in April 2021. His appointment as CEO has brought a new focus on exports and innovation, with a vision to rethink exports and be laser-focused on export development, promotion, engagement, and expansion, with a purposeful and aggressive approach tailored to build a new export economy in Barbados, which can drive foreign exchange, growth, and transformation for the country.
Shaping Mr. Hill’s vision for the Export Barbados (BIDC) is also his design background and design experience in both the public and private sector, embracing an understanding of design as strategy, well-beyond design as simply styling or process.
The new strategic focus created by Mr. Hill for Export Barbados (BIDC) is to build sustainable, responsible, and impactful investment and innovations, with the transformative direction pivoted on becoming a blue ocean organization. This focus emphasises three economies – Oceans Economy (blue economy), Bioeconomy (green economy), and Design Economy (orange economy); using the 3-part model – Design It, Make It, Ship It for driving exports
Mr. Hill is also the founder of Innogen Technologies Inc. and Biogen Biotechnologies Inc. – two research and development companies in the clean technologies market.
