Our Team: Fred Dillon

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Fred Dillon

Director, Product Development

Fred Dillon provides planning and project management leadership in the development of HopeLab’s products to improve the health and quality of life of young people with chronic illness. He leads interdisciplinary teams of HopeLab staff, vendors, and external collaborators to develop and refine HopeLab innovations in an iterative, customer-focused process. Fred works closely with HopeLab’s Research unit to ensure that HopeLab product development is linked with high-quality scientific evidence and that HopeLab customers, young people themselves, are involved every step of the way.

Fred oversees the ongoing development of HopeLab’s Re-Mission video game for teens and young adults with cancer. He also leads the organization’s obesity-related product development programs. Fred managed HopeLab’s international Ruckus Nation idea competition, which launched in September 2007 and engaged participants from 71 countries and all 50 U.S. states to generate more than 400 ideas for products to increase physical activity in young people. Fred also oversaw HopeLab’s Zamzee, an activity meter and online rewards platform powered by physical activity.

Fred has over 15 years of public policy, communications and project management experience. Prior to joining HopeLab in 2006, he served as Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Communications at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF), where he oversaw all aspects of the agency’s government affairs and communications efforts.

Fred is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Social Welfare and Public Policy.

Photo credit: Evan Pilchik Photography