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Jeffrey B. Hecktman

Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Hilco Global
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Hilco Brands
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About Jeffrey

Jeffrey Hecktman is CEO, Founder and a Board Member of Hilco Global. He founded the company in 1987 to conduct business asset liquidations. Today, under Jeff’s leadership, Hilco Global is considered a world class company – having earned this reputation after decades of providing both healthy and distressed companies with valuation, monetization, strategic advisory and capital solutions to maximize the value of their business assets. He is credited for having built the company from a small start-up to a sophisticated global financial services firm with over 700 employees and 11 offices worldwide.  Over the course of his career, Jeff has structured and directed thousands of transactions deploying billions of dollars in capital for M & A, turnaround and restructuring deals. He remains a member of the Secured Finance Network, the Turnaround Management Association, the Association of Corporate Development, American Bankruptcy Institute, and many other leading industry associations.

Jeff is deeply committed to philanthropy and ardently supports many causes often focusing on healthcare, education, and families/children in need. He’s been a benefactor for a major music therapy program and a stem cell research program at the University of Chicago Medical Center and an ardent supporter of the United States Holocaust Museum. He is committed to ensuring that Hilco Global stands for more than just the financial services and capital that it provides to its client base and he is working to create a corporate culture that emphasizes giving back to the community, diversity, tolerance, and inclusion. Jeff has led the organization’s employees to become passionate supporters of educational opportunities for underserved communities in the United States and around the world. To this end he and the firm have donated their time and financial support to several important educational programs for the children around the world, including the Chicago Public Schools; the Chicago Public Library; Youth Guidance mentoring programs that work with over 6000 inner city high school age boys and girls across the US; The All Stars Project – An Arts and Education After School Program in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Dallas; Major disaster relief efforts in Haiti and Puerto Rico following floods and hurricanes, and Impact Israel (formerly Yemin Orde) based in Israel, which provides support to at-risk and immigrant youth from around the world.

Education
  • University of Arizona
    B.A. - Business Administration
  • George Washington University/Nyenrode Business Universiteit (Netherlands)
    International Business Curriculum
Thoughts from Jeffrey B. Hecktman

Independently and in partnership with clients, the leaders of our diverse platform of financial services companies and their teams are fully committed to achieving sustainable growth. Both the long-term stability of the global economy and society’s collective wellbeing depend on it.

Operating Companies
Hilco Global
As a diversified financial services company Hilco Global delivers unsurpassed asset knowledge and expertise to help companies maximize asset value and financial returns at critical inflection points throughout their lifespan.
Hilco Brands
Investing in and Revitalizing Iconic Brands
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Gary C. Epstein

Executive Vice President
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Ernest Fiorante

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
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Eric W. Kaup

Co-Chief Commercial Officer
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Jill G. Zimmerman

Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer
Hilco Global
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