Hugh Simpson

Hugh has spent 24 years in the Preparedness and Survival consulting business authoring numerous books.

Hugh was a Y2K consultant to numerous media outlets including Fox News, CNN, WGST Radio Atlanta and the syndicated radio talk show Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell.

He has since made numerous appearances on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and been a guest columnist for Survivor’s Edge.

Hugh began his career as first a rock DJ and then went into radio news in Gainesville, Florida. He was selected to become an intern by the prestigious Post Newsweek TV Group’s WJXT in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. He then became their first consumer reporter and then an investigative reporter.

In 1970 he left WJXT to finish his studies receiving a BS in Sociology at Florida State University. After taking an advertising course at FSU and interning in a Tallahassee based public relations consulting business, Hugh attended the University of Illinois graduating with an MS in Advertising and Public Relations in 1973.

Hugh decided to return to Jacksonville, where he followed in the steps of his mentor the late Barry Horenbein opening his own public relations consulting business. His first main client was the late William Thourlby, the Original Marlboro Man. Hugh became his publicist, which led to Mr. Thourlby’s best selling classic You Are What You Wear.

Hugh relocated to Atlanta where in addition to handling Mr. Thourlby’s consulting he consulted Maggie Hughes, an award winning certified kitchen designer; Christian ultra marathoner Stan Cottrell for both his Run Across America and China Wall Run; entrepreneur the late Robert Taylor and author of Paradigm and OpsTime; DragonCon the largest USA sci-fi/pop convention and the late Nelson McGhee MD, who created an instructional game on sickle cell anemia later purchased by a major pharmaceutical company.

It was while in Atlanta that Hugh became a certified Comcast TV producer while co-owning Galaxy Video Productions, who did productions for Road Atlanta, the late Ron Rice’s first Hawaiian Tropics beauty pageant and other Atlanta nightclub events.

He co-produced for Comcast the award winning Today’s Health. He also co-produced the largest spy related fan convention SpyFest 2003 on the Queen Mary featuring over 60 stars of TV and film including Robert Culp, George 007 Lazenby, Maude Adams, Lana Wood, David “Kill Bill” Carradine, etc.

As a Christian he was involved in 1970s in the Jesus Revolution through St. Peters Episcopal Church in his hometown of Jacksonville with guests from the Charismatic Movement like George Otis and Kathryn Kuhlman.

Most recently he has become involved at Discover Church in Franklin, North Carolina.