AMBASSADOR CHAIR
Ree Hamlin
Owner
Neighbors of Webster Groves
Ree is a visionary leader and a community-oriented entrepreneur. She is Founder and CEO of Neighbors of Webster Groves a Best Version Media Publication. Best Version Media is one of the fastest-growing print media companies serving residents and local businesses across the United States and Canada. With over 27 million magazines distributed in 2019 and still counting, Ree’s goal is to bring people together by helping small businesses grow through micro-targeted community marketing.
Ree is also the Founder and Business Consultant of HL Consulting LLC, a company dedicated to providing consultative, health and career coaching services to individuals and businesses. As a professional pharmaceutical sales leader and development consultant, Ree has an unwavering commitment towards empowering and redefining the pharmaceutical market and the healthcare sector at large. Through HL Consulting LLC, she implemented the CPESN strategy for ClaritasPSM in AR, MO and NE, as well as helped develop a preferred Pharmacy Network to work directly with hospices in their community areas. HL Consulting LLC has provided marketing and HR support to The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacies in St. Louis for the last few years.
Prior to setting up her own consulting business, Ree held sales leadership positions in the Independent Sales Force of Cardinal Health and two other key Pharmaceutical Wholesale Companies. After years of sales and leadership experience in the pharmacy industry Ree found her home at Cardinal Health. Starting as a Sales Consultant in 1997 she helped Cardinal Health establish a foot hold in the St. Louis/MO/IL and Arkansas regions. After holding many key positions in the Cardinal Health organization Ree became a Sales Director in the Mid-America Region and successfully managed and promoted three sales teams in the Central Region.
A reputable professional in her field, over the years, she has built an outstanding reputation for herself. Ree has been the recipient of prominent awards in the pharmaceutical industry like MO Pharmacy Association Traveler’s Award (2017), Diabetes Journey Award (2016), Generation RX Champion of The Year (2011), and MO Pharmacy Association Terry Mungle Award (2011).
Ree holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management and Communications with a minor in Human Resources from Concordia University.
On the personal side Ree is married to the love of her life Tom Lewis who is retired from Ameren Electric where he was a Plant Operating Engineer. Tom is a jeweler by trade and continues to take care of his jewelry customers and can be found on the golf course at least three times a week. Ree and Tom have three grown children who are all married and have six children between them. Ree’s husband, children, grandchildren
and the rest of her extended family, nieces, nephews, siblings, friends, her 88 year Mom and dog Gigi K are the most important people in her life.
Ree and her husband enjoy time with family and friends, traveling – especially to Michigan where both her parents were raised. You will most likely find Ree at a soccer game, basketball game, football game or a water polo match watching her grandchildren.