Jill Schmieg is Founder & Chief Strategist at Sol de Naples Marketing, a B2B marketing services firm specializing in strategy, communications, demand generation, marketing automation and ROI.  Today, she actively works with B2B firms of all sizes, helping them build unconventional, savvy and focused ways to reach their markets.  

Prior to her current role at Sol, Jill held the position of Senior Director of Brand Strategy & Communications at Ryder, a Fortune 500 leader in transportation and logistics (Miami, FL).   Early in her career Jill also worked as a marketing assistant to a Top Sales Agent at the Charles Reinhart Co. (Ann Arbor, MI), as she paid her way through college, graduating in 2001 from Eastern Michigan University with highest academic honors.

In 2015, Jill Schmieg founded Sol de Naples Marketing.

When Jill started Sol, she did so with an eye towards an entirely new challenge with a distinct priority to give back to the industry and the up-and-coming professionals in it. To this end, Jill serves on the Board of Directors at the Transportation Marketing & Sales Association (TMSA), and current Chairperson of the Membership Committee. She was the inaugural recipient of TMSA’s Volunteer of the Year award in 2011 and received its Affiliate Member of the Year award in 2019. She and her clients are the recipients of numerous Trailblazer Awards (formerly Compass), whereby TMSA recognizes leadership and the highest levels of in sales and marketing excellence.

In addition to helping her clients grow their businesses, Jill commits 20% of her professional time and talents pro-bono to advancing the mission of non-profits in the greater Naples area and across the country. She currently serves as Secretary, Board of Directors at Educational Pathways Academy, a private school that specializes in helping children with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD and dyspraxia. Additional volunteer roles have included Chairperson of the Children’s Council at North Naples Church, Communications Lead for the PTO at Veterans Memorial Elementary (Naples, FL) and Digital Marketing and Communications Lead for the PTO at North Naples Middle School (Naples, FL).

Jill holds an B.B.A in International Business and a B.A. in Spanish from Eastern Michigan University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2001. She returns regularly to the College of Business at EMU as a guest lecturer.