Nike Honors CEO’s Milestone with Phillip H. Knight Campus Dedication

Elliott Hill celebrates his first year as CEO of Nike. The U.S. sports equipment company will rename its headquarters, located in Beaverton, Oregon, to Phillip H. Knight Campus, in honor of one of its founders, as part of Elliott Hill’s first year as president and CEO.

“This is more than a name change, it is a tribute to the man whose vision created a global movement,“ Hill said in a statement on the occasion of his first year at the helm of the company.

The new CEO, who started as an intern within the company and retired in 2020 before his return this year to take the reins at Nike at one of the most complex times in the swosh giant’s history.

Elliott Hill wrote an in-depth analysis of Nike while studying kinesiology

Elliott Hill was born in 1964 in Austin, Texas, where he grew up in a family headed by a single mother, and his love for Nike, which he made clear in his first analyst conference after taking office, goes back a long way. His love for Nike, which he made very clear in his first conference with analysts after taking office, goes back a long way. As a student, he wrote an in-depth analysis of Nike and, a month later, an executive from the multinational gave a talk at his school.

With a degree in kinesiology (the medical discipline that studies body movement to prevent injuries) from Texas Christian University (TCU) and a master’s degree in sports management from Ohio University, he is a graduate of the University of Texas Christian University (TCU). The executive was able to get Nike to make a place for him in the company by interning as a sales intern at the company’s showroom in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1988.

Hill, unknown to the general public until last year but highly respected at Nike, then began a meteoric and long career at the sports multinational, rising from intern to sales manager, with promotions year after year until he became director of the team sports division in 1998.