an eye for business

With over 40 years of hands-on experience, Hughes offers clients business knowledge and insight. His perspective is as diverse as his resume - spanning design / construction /development, 3D virtualization / marketing / branding, retail and tech. He has started and run his own companies, worked for corporations, and consulted to start-ups, growing companies and Fortune 500 clients around the world - across a range of verticals: from real estate to IT, from retail to entertainment, from telecommunications to media.

The focus of Hughes’s work has been bringing ideas to life. He has worked with a wide range of diverse clients with unique requirements designing, prototyping, building, and commissioning projects - or introducing product or business concepts through incremental development and testing into the market - or creating strategic frameworks to organize, track and optimize growth of new (or old or re-purposed) ideas in the real world. Hughes brings a flexible and collaborative approach to working with clients and their consultants to define success and the paths to significant outcomes.

Hughes is married , a proud Dad to two successful adult women. Hughes enjoys working with tools - analog and digital. He prototypes ideas, develops apps, and new business concepts. His passions include blue water sailing, biking, skiing, jazz music, and reading.