Hil Davis (John Hilburn Davis IV) is a consumer brands 🏷️#entrepreneur and, as of 2026, the chief executive of Digital Brands Group, a Nasdaq-listed company (DBGI) that acquires and operates apparel and e-commerce brands. He joined the company in 2018 to rebuild its supply chain, has led it as chief executive since 2019, and took it public in 2021.
Davis founded the made-to-measure menswear company J.Hilburn in 2007 and ran it as chief executive until 2013, growing annual revenue to about $55 million in six years. He then founded BeautyKind, an online beauty retailer that directs a share of each purchase to a charity the customer chooses, and led it from 2013 to 2018. Earlier, from 1998 to 2006, he was an equity research analyst covering publicly traded consumer and luxury companies at Thomas Weisel Partners, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, and Citadel Investment Group. He holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology from Rhodes College. His background is detailed in Digital Brands Group's SEC filings.
