Steve Hill

Strategy & Leadership Expert

Steve is President & CEO of Thermacell Repellents, a high-growth, global maker of insect repellent devices and refills that provide unmatched protection from mosquitoes. Steve also serves as an outside director at three PE owned companies:  Buffalo Games, EastPoint Sports, and All States Ag Parts.  

Previously, he served as President of Black Flag Brands, a fast growing, CPG company providing household pest solutions.  Steve created Black Flag Brands after engineering the acquisition and financing of Black Flag from Clorox. In 2011, Black Flag was sold to Spectrum Brands (SPB) in a transaction that represented a six-fold increase in enterprise value.

Prior to Black Flag, Steve spent five years with Scotts Miracle Gro where he developed and executed a strategy to enter the insect and weed control markets, later assuming marketing and sales responsibility for the $500 Million Ortho Business Group. Before that, Steve worked for five years at Spectrum Brands where he helped the company triple in size and become the clear #1 or #2 in all of its defined markets.

Steve’s career began at Clorox where he worked on a number of top brands including Kingsford and Match light Charcoals, Combat insect control and Brita Water Filters.