Our Team
Jeff Hiltunen
President
Jeff Hiltunen joined West Suburban Limousine in 2005, after a thirteen-year career with Honeywell. His father, Ray Hiltunen (1939-2010) founded the Chicago limousine company in 1966, and Jeff returned to become the second generation to helm the business. Hiltunen attended the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology (Tulsa, OK), before transferring to DeVry, where he graduated with a degree in Electronics Engineering Technologies. He began his career building panels for Electronics Data Instruments, before they merged with Honeywell. After the merger, Hiltunen moved into a supervisor role with the Honeywell office in Acton, Massachusetts, working with the sales team and engineers tasked with designing custom safety and automatic controls for stamping presses.
Scott Simkus
General Manager
Scott Simkus has been part of the West Suburban Limousine family since 2002. He began his career as an Executive Chauffeur, moved up to a Lead Dispatcher and was eventually promoted to VP of Operations at the beginning of 2014. Prior to joining the WSL team, Simkus had worked as an account executive with the Minolta Corporation (Downers Grove) and Monarch Marketing Group (Chicago), before starting his own consulting firm, Main Street Marketing. He’d also worked as a free-lance writer and is the author of one book, Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, published by Chicago Review Press in 2014. He has been interviewed, or written about, by WGN-TV and Radio, NPR, Sports Illustrated, the USA Today, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, among others. He published an online magazine devoted to baseball history for three years, the archives of which have been preserved in the National Baseball Library at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Simkus attended Western Illinois University, but left early to found Prestige Cleaning, Inc., a small cleaning service which he owned and operated for five years. He is married with two children. Scott can be reached at ssimkus@westsublimo.com
Guy Snell
VP of Operations
Guy Snell joined West Suburban Limousine in 2017 and has worked his way up from Senior Dispatcher to VP Operations in 2024. He is currently in charge of the fleet, as well as the dispatch staff. Prior to joining WSL, Snell was in logistics and management with a major auto parts retailer. Before getting into the auto parts industry (and later WSL), Snell was an accomplished commercial illustrator who ran his own successful business for many years. He lives in the Chicago suburbs. Guy can be reached at gsnell@westsublimo.com.
