About us

The two partners in Hilldino, Duncan Hilleary and Albert Scardino, have worked together in several businesses over a period of some 20 years.

Duncan Hilleary – Managing Partner has been an entrepreneur for most of his working life. Prior to Hilldino, he and Albert founded the e-commerce platform auctionair.co.uk , where Duncan served as Chief Executive from 2002 to 2013. Prior to this Duncan founded the inflight media business Spafax Airline Network, which over a 12 year period he expanded to an annual billing turnover of a little over US$100m. That company is now owned by WPP. Duncan was also also closely involved through his family in the formation of The Edinbane Estate Wind Farm Company – in which he retains a significant shareholding and serves as a director on its board. EEWFL launched one of the UK’s first wind farm applications and now has a 41.4 MW capacity site running Enercon 2.3 MW turbines on its land on the Isle of Skye, operated by Vattenfall. This triggered Duncan’s interest in wind energy.

Albert Scardino – Partner is a journalist and media investor. His journalism has been part of The New York Times, The Guardian, Oxford Analytica, the BBC and Sky News. He was a founder and the editor of a group of weeklies in the US where he won a Pulitzer Prize. He has taught and lectured widely on journalism, media and politics. He served as Press Secretary to the Mayor of New York and as an adviser to the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the charity world, he has been active in the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Institute for Philanthropy and a number of educational institutions. He was until recently, Executive Chairman of the Immunovaccine Inc, a trustee of The Media Standards Board and a trustee of Tree Council.