Leadership
hesketh.com's team of seasoned professionals has grown together since the early 1990s. With a strong drive for excellence, the leadership team has decades of combined expertise in business and Web solutions. Their diverse backgrounds, talents, and experience are essential ingredients in our user-centric design approach and our customer-centric style of service delivery.
Heather Hesketh
Chief Executive Officer
In 1995, Heather Hesketh founded hesketh.com, forging ahead in a new era of Web site and application development services. Heather's industry insights and business instincts have grown hesketh.com from a one-person consultancy to a thriving full-service agency whose clients include BlueCross BlueShield of NC, Oxford University Press, Duke University, and the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED). The success of hesketh.com coupled with the reputation they've earned for client satisfaction has attracted a lot of attention, landing Hesketh on the pages of The Business Journal , Entrepreneur magazine, and Triangle Lifestyle magazine and garnering awards such as The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce Pinnacle Award for Excellent Customer Service, The Business Journal's 40 under 40 and Women in Business Awards, Business Leader's Women Extraordinaire Award, and CED's Entrepreneurial Excellence Award for Community Service. Hesketh is a graduate of North Carolina State University's Aerospace Engineering program.
Steve Champeon
Chief Technical Officer
Steven Champeon has been involved in the Internet for over fifteen years. He is the founder of the webdesign-L online community which is nine years old and 2200+ members strong. Champeon's widely-respected status as a "Web guru" is evidenced by his impressive list of publications and speaking engagements. Champeon is a contributor to Unix Power Tools, 3rd edition, Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content From Presentation, now in its second edition, as well as the author of the groundbreaking Building Dynamic HTML GUIs.
As a technical editor, Champeon has contributed his expertise in XML, XHTML, CSS, Unix, MacOS X, Apache, and related topics for books published by O'Reilly and Associates, Apress, Macmillan/New Riders, John Wiley and Sons and several other publishers. He has written, contributed to, or edited over three dozen books over the past decade. He is also a frequent contributor to online and print magazines for Web professionals, including Webmonkey, the O'Reilly Network, Apple's Internet Developer, and many others.
A highly sought after speaker at trade conferences, Champeon has donated his expertise to the advisory boards of South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive and the CMP Web conference circuit in addition to over a dozen speaking engagements at those and other conferences. Champeon has also been a guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and is an invited guest lecturer of North Carolina State University's College of Management MSM program. Champeon is a graduate of Syracuse University.
