April 27, 2021
Hillhouse set to be first entrepreneurship degree awardee
Freshman ECU College of Business student Brady Hillhouse at CAPTRUST Financial Advisors (photo by Cliff Hollis)
When the spring ’21 commencement exercises are completed May 7, the College of Business and the Miller School of Entrepreneurship will have awarded its first entrepreneurship degree to Waxhaw, North Carolina’s Brady Hillhouse.
Ask anybody within the College of Business and the Miller School of Entrepreneurship, Hillhouse’s name, along with Taylor Walden’s name, will forever be linked to both the College and the Miller School. The first Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge saw Walden take first place. Hillhouse’s legacy will be linked with taking a full-throttle approach to what ECU, the College of Business and the Miller School of Entrepreneurship provide to future leaders.
Here’s a fun fact about Brady. He founded his first company, FX Tips and Signals, in 2015 as a junior in high school. He later sold that company as a COB freshman in May 2018.
Dr. Mike Harris, Miller School’s director, will tell you Hillhouse is a high bar that will be tough to beat. Hillhouse’s experiences both within and outside ECU have made him someone where future entrepreneurs and leaders can find inspiration.
Want to learn more about Hillhouse? Check out his student profile by ECU News Services.
Want to see all that Hillhouse has accomplished as a student Pirate? Check out the list below.
Professional Experience:
- May 2018, first internship at AccruePartners in Charlotte
- May 2019, second internship at CAPTRUST in Raleigh
- May 2019, started work on a new startup company FreeBo (hopefully piloting at ECU this semester)
- Sept. 2019, third internship with RISE29 at ECU
- Dec. 2019, fourth internship with Cadrillion Capital in Charlotte
- Jan. 2020, fifth internship with RISE29 at ECU
Leadership in Student Organizations:
- Investment Club, fall 2017 – Present
- Fall 2017 – spring 2018, VP of Foreign Exchange and Crypto
- Fall 2018, VP of Foreign Markets
- Spring 2019 – fall 2019, executive vice president
- Spring 2020 – president
- Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO), fall 2017 – Present
- Fall 2017 – spring 2018, VP of Finance/Treasurer
- Fall 2018 – fall 2019, chapter president
- Spring 2020 – student advisor
- College of Business Dean’s Student Leadership Council (CoB DSLC), fall 2018 – Present
- Fall 2019, chairperson (First Person to be Chair)
- Fall 2019, chairperson (First Person to be Chair)
Awards:
- Fall 2017, The Intersect Group STEM Scholarship Award ($3,000 award for freshman year, https://www.theintersectgroup.com/news/4-students-kick-off-the-school-year-with-the-intersect-group-stem-scholarship)
- March 2018, East Carolina University/MSoE Student Entrepreneur of the Month (still a freshman)
- Fall 2018, ECU/CoB Bob Plybon Entrepreneurship Scholarship Award
- Nov. 2019, CEO Chapter Leader of the year Award
Other Programs:
- Fall 2019, Future Founders 2019 Fall Residency Bootcamp. One of 31 18-30-year-olds selected across the nation to participate.
- Fall 2019, Future Founders 2019 Fall Residency. One of 19 selected from the group of 31 in the boot camp to join as a Resident of the program. (https://futurefounders.com/news-article/future-founders-announces-fall-2019-residency-cohort/)
- Jan. 2020, Harvard Business School Online’s Certificate of Entrepreneurship Jan. 2021 Cohort (runs from 1/22 –
- May 2020, Startup Island. Startup Island is an alternative spring break program with entrepreneurial-minded students from 30+ other universities (Wharton, MIT, Babson, UNC) (https://www.joinstartupisland.com/springbreak)
The future is wide open for Hillhouse after May 7. Since we build leaders at the College of Business, Hillhouse is well-positioned to utilize the leadership skills honed in the Miller School.
His story will continue to unfold, and we can’t wait to read more.
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