Brian Hill

Brian Hill is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist, the founder and the former executive chair of Vancouver-based clothing company Aritzia. After the opening of its first location in 1984, the company grew steadily in its forty years of operation, servicing a demographic of young Canadian women and employing more than 2,300 people. Throughout his adolescence, Hill worked in his father's retail store. He learned the retail business under the mentorship of his father and his uncle, Forbes Hill. Aritizia's six private in-house brands—Wilfred, TNA, Talula, Sunday Best, Community and Babaton accompanied by their two accessory brands SIXELEVEN and Auxiliary—are responsible for generating 80 percent of the company's sales. Aritzia has continuously expanded to 105 locations across North America after being in business for four decades.

Philanthropy In 2007, Hill's wife, Andrea Thomas Hill, founded the organization Cause We Care, a foundation designed to provide support to single mothers in the Vancouver area who may be struggling to provide for their children. Aritzia is a sponsor and advocate of the organization. Hill and his wife support the BC Children's Hospital Foundation and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Personal Life As of December 2024, Forbes reported that Brian Hill is a billionaire. Hill met his wife, Andrea Thomas Hill, at the end of 1990s and started a family together.