Montel Hill, CPA

Montel R. Hill is the founder and managing principal of LegacyOne Group, LLC (formerly known as H&R Consulting), a strategic advisory firm that specializes in low cost real estate financing and mission management services. Montel has served as a trusted advisor to nonprofit organizations for more than two decades.

After graduating with honors from Morgan State University in May 1984, Montel began his professional career at Ernst & Young (E&Y), where he interned during the Summer and Fall of 1983. During Montel’s career at E&Y he primarily provided auditing and consulting services to Fortune 500 banks and insurance companies. Montel developed a specialization in credit card securitizations, ADC (acquisition, development and construction) real estate transactions and loan loss analysis. Montel was directly involved in over $4 billion of debt and equity financings and headed several E&Y engagement teams that reviewed and criticized the adequacy of loan loss of commercial real estate portfolios of bank and insurance clients.

During Montel’s leadership of LegacyOne Group, LLC, the firm has:

• Secured in excess of $ 1 billion of low cost financing on behalf of churches and nonprofit organizations, including construction, acquisition and development financing.
• Helped many churches and nonprofit organizations in the United States grow their revenue and donor base.
• Assisted many nonprofit organizations in the successful restructure of their operating costs to capitalize on unique opportunities and in multiple cases avoid foreclosure.
• Helped nonprofit organizations diversify their operations via the ownership of media properties (e.g., TV and radio stations), community development organizations and other innovative structures.
• Saved their nonprofit clients tens of millions of dollars in interest and opportunity costs.

Montel is a frequent speaker in national church conferences and community development forums. He has served as a keynote speaker for the National Baptist Convention, USA, COGIC, Full Gospel Baptist Convention, various economic summits in West Palm Beach, Chicago and Baltimore. He has also served as a panelist for the Miami Chamber of Commerce conference on Economic and Community Development.

Montel attends Bridgeway Community Church and is a member of the Maryland Association of CPA’s. He has served on the boards of International Bible Games, Maryland Office on Aging, Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation, the African Relief Mission and the Association for Sickle Cell Education, Research & Treatment (ASSERT).