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Hilary Howard Heieck is a strategic communications and marketing executive with over 15 years of experience advising senior leaders and partnering with premier brands across sports, hospitality, and media. She has a proven ability to guide high-impact projects, lead cross-functional teams, and consult on executive communications, brand strategy, and partnership activations. Hilary is recognized for building trusted relationships with C-suite executives and leading initiatives that drive growth, brand equity, and operational efficiency.

As Principal & Founder of Triple H Communications, Hilary provides high-level communication coaching and strategic advisory to leaders, student athletes and emerging talent. Her services include personal branding, media and public speaking training, executive presence, social media strategy, and interview preparation. She has consulted for universities such as Duke University, USC, UC Berkeley, Oregon State, and the University of Kentucky, and advised leadership at Globicon and other private-sector clients.

Prior to this, Hilary served as a Marketing Consultant for Pebble Beach Company, where she drove strategic marketing initiatives, led partnership activations with major brands like Coca-Cola, Avis, and XOJET, and served as Executive Editor of Pebble Beach Magazine. As one of the first 50 employees at Pac-12 Networks, she directed national and regional marketing campaigns.

For more than a decade Heieck was part of the Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee representing Duke University as an alumni interviewer in California; she uniquely understands the college admissions process from the inside out.

She is a former first team All-ACC starting point guard for Duke University who led her team to the program’s first-ever Final Four appearance in 1999. Graduating from Duke as the all-time assists leader, the New York native played professionally in Norrkoping, Sweden before an ankle injury ended her playing career.

Along with her B.A. in History from Duke University, she holds an M.S. in Communications Management from the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse. She resides in Pacific Grove, California with her husband and two children.

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