Steve Hilleard

Chief Executive Officer | Nelson Media Ltd (publishers of Office Products International, OPI)
Chief Executive Officer | Stateside Media
Managing Partner | OP Resource

OPI is a media organization dedicated to providing a wide range of information products and services to the global office supplies sector. The company’s flagship title OPI, produced ten times per year, is distributed in print and online to industry participants in over 100 countries. Published since 1991, OPI provides analysis of industry trends and news, and coverage of the sector’s most influential companies, executives and products. Other products and services include: a daily email news digest; a weekly analysis of key developments affecting the industry; special supplements focused on a wide range of topics such as the environment, new products and technology solutions; conferences and awards dinners in Europe, North America and Asia; specialist reports and research studies into various office products markets including Europe, North America and India.

OP Resource provides advisory services to organizations in the school and office products industries. The partners, often in tandem with a network of veteran office supplies professionals, leverage the combined strength of direct industry experience with Hilleard’s C-level relationships at most of the sector’s leading players worldwide. Services include, but are not limited to: Mergers and acquisitions; development of cross-border distribution relationships; brand licensing; executive search; advisory services to the financial community.

Hilleard has worked in the office supplies industry for almost 25 years and has developed a wide base of industry knowledge and senior executive contacts through his work at OPI. He is regularly invited to present his opinions at prestigious office products events the world over, and to moderate industry discussion panels. Hilleard is the Chairman of several awards judging panels in Europe, China and the USA which evaluate and honor outstanding companies, products, initiatives and executives in the office supplies industry.

He is also very involved in a number of charitable endeavors on both sides of the Atlantic, including serving on the Executive Committee for the National Office Products Council’s efforts in support of the world-renowned City of Hope.