Our Founder

For more than 25 years, HTB Strategies principal and founder Hillary Brill, has been shaping, building, and teaching in all aspects of policy-making including media, legal, grassroots, and legislative practices.  

Brill started in broadcast journalism with stints at CNN, Meet the Press, ABC News Paris Bureau, AP and Reuters, but soon realized that instead of writing about the news, she wanted to help make the news.  Graduating from Harvard with a degree in Government, Brill went to Washington, DC to attend Georgetown Law and never left.

As communications and technology counsel with Covington & Burlington, Brill drafted one of the first primers on Internet Policy.  She also worked as a lawyer on telecommunications, broadcasting, software licensing, SPAM, intellectual property, privacy, and cybsersecurity issues for clients including TimeWarner, AOL, Microsoft, ABC, NBC, CBS,  and Smithsonian. 

Pursuing her desire to be closer to the policymaking process, Brill left legal practice to work with technology leader Congressman Rick Boucher.  Her portfolio included Internet policy issues such as net neutrality, patent reform, telemedicine, copyright, trademark, DMCA, Section 230, e-commerce, telecommunications, privacy, and cybersecurity policy. 

eBay Inc. drafted Brill to help run its nascent government relations policy affairs for both eBay and Paypal.  During her almost decade there, she worked in several roles including Legislative Counsel, Senior Global Policy Counsel, and Head of Government Relations for eBay and Paypal.

In her professional capacity, Brill has spoken and continues to speak on panels, host workshops, conduct media interviews, and participate at conferences as an Internet policy expert. 

For the past seven years, she has shared her unique perspective and policymaking experience with the next generation of technology leaders as a Professor at Georgetown law, where she developed a curriculum about practicing policy at the intersection of technology and legislation.  Brill also was chosen as Practitioner-in-Residence at American University Washington College of Law focusing on technology and intellectual property issues. 

Her passion remains to help mentor law students and young professionals, and to help ensure that legislation keeps pace with the rapid development of technology. Today, as principal of HTB Strategies, Brill works with a variety of select clients on exciting technology policy matters.