EXPERIENCE

Douglas Hileman is president of Douglas Hileman Consulting LLC (“DHC”) and is the primary resource for DHC projects. Mr. Hileman has over 40 years of experience, in many aspects that provide value to our clients.

• Variety of Client situation and needs: We have helped clients with needs including: compliance management; prevention; investigation; transaction; integration; monitoring/ oversight; reporting; stakeholder response and strategies; performance improvement; and training.
• Well-Rounded Employment Experience: Mr. Hileman has worked in industry, management consulting, a Big 4 accounting firm, and as an entrepreneur. He also served on the Volkswagen Monitor Team, an effort required to fulfill requirements imposed by the US Department of Justice. DHC brings a distinct, diverse set of experience and perspectives that add value to our work.
• Industry sectors: DHC has experience in many industry sectors. These include: automotive, chemicals, energy, government, hospitality, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, professional services, technology, transportation, utilities, and waste management.
• Communications Skills: Mr. Hileman has excellent written and verbal communications skills. He delivers well-structured, readable reports. He is a go-to speaker for Institute of Internal Auditors chapters, other professional organizations, and vendors and other professional services firms. He has designed and delivered training on a range of ESG topics and to a range of audiences. These include risks of Non-Financial Reporting to Internal Auditors, environmental compliance training to Operations, and environmental fraud training to environmental and legal professionals. When in industry, he developed a following company-wide for concise, readable updates on regulatory updates, with practical content tailored to each of nearly 30 chemical plants.
• Standards and Frameworks: Mr. Hileman is familiar with many frameworks for compliance management, risk management, non-financial reporting, and auditing. This include SASB COSO Enterprise Risk Management framework, ISO 31000, ISO 14001, GRI (Sustainability reporting), the IIA’s International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF), the IIA’s Three Lines of governance model, EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive, Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals, GAO Yellow Book, (U.S. and international) accounting standards for contingent liabilities. He has followed changes to many standards, submitted comments, and contributed content for comments submitted by professional organizations. Doug’s been called a “standards wonk” – he pleads guilty.
• Working Across the Enterprise: Mr. Hileman has worked for / with departments all across the company. This includes: Compliance, Environmental, Health & Safety, Internal Audit, Investor Relations, Legal, Operations, Risk, Quality, and Supply Chain. Clients find this experience invaluable, since so many ESG risks, opportunities and issues span many parts of the organization.

DHC draws from a network of other senior professionals. Contact us if you – or someone you know –might be a good fit.

HOW WE WORK

DHC has promoted innovative ways for efficient, effective, and cost-effective ways to fulfill client needs, including those below.

• Traditional engagements: DHC performs a project, provides a deliverable.
• Advisory: DHC supports Client effort, with limited written deliverables.
• Collaboration/ Team: DHC supports a collaborate team effort, often managed by another professional services firm.
• Co-sourcing: Projects involve Client and DHC resources, enabling clients to be part of the solution, and implement new systems more quickly and effectively.

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

Mr. Hileman has been active in professional organizations for over 30 years.

• Institute of Internal Auditors: Member since 2008. Co-chair of programming for IIA 2019 International Conference (2,200+ attendees). Served on a global committee 5 years, publishing Practice Advisories, focusing on topics including engagement planning for fraud testing, and Internal Audit and Second Line of Defense, and Internal Audit charter. He was an officer in the local chapter for many years and developed the program for multi-day conferences.
• EHS Audit Center: Now a part of the IIA, Mr. Hileman has been involved in this and legacy organizations since the late 1980s. He has been on boards, chaired national meetings, published thought leadership, and represented EHS audit profession at other professional organizations.
• Frequent attendee: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; National Association of Corporate Directors; Internal Management Accountants Association.

GIVING BACK

The ESG space is not just a profession – it is a lifelong commitment. As a consultancy, and as a firm, Doug Hileman gives back to the community to make a difference. Examples are listed below.

Professional association support: Doug has sponsored IIA conferences for Southern California chapters and district. He regularly attends and supports events by other associations including National Association of Corporate Directors, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Information Systems Security Association, and Internal Management Accountants.

Professional association volunteer involvement: Doug has been an officer in the IIA Los Angeles chapter for eight years. He served on the IIA’s Guidance Development Committee for five years, contributing time/ effort/ expense towards writing supplemental guidance for the Internal Audit profession. He is on the Advisory Board of the IIA’s EHS Audit Center and has been a driving force in efforts to provide guidance and content for the changing needs around EHS and ESG auditing. He was on the board of the legacy (EHS) Auditing Roundtable and the (Environmental) Auditing Forum. He chaired five national meetings and has contributed content for decades.

Regulatory and Standards Input: Mr. Hileman keeps pace with they dynamic world of laws, regulations and standards. He has submitted comments many times, with some resulting in substantive changes to the proposed standards. He submitted comments on the SEC’s draft conflict minerals rule, with the result that the SEC agreed that non-CPA auditors could perform Independent Private Sector Audits. More recently, he submitted comments to GRI on Universal Reporting Standards. Comments also on IFRS Consultation Draft on Sustainability Reporting, and SASB’s Proposed Changes to Conceptual Framework & Rules of Procedure. There’s nothing like reading the primary documents.

Minority, WBE and Veteran Resources: DHC has consistently provided opportunities for minority, WBE and veteran contractors. DHC’s webmaster is a black-owned, veteran-owned business. When DHC had an urgent need for an independent benchmarking effort to support an assurance engagement, we turned to a woman-owned, black-owned enterprise. The majority of subcontractor support has been directed towards black-owned, minority-owned and/or women-owned resources. DHC also took the initiative to engage a promising graduate student in a paid internship to support an audit; through this project and Doug’s coaching, the graduate began his first job with experience his bosses did not have.

Neighborhood Involvement: Douglas has sponsored the Valley Glen Neighborhood Association for nearly 20 years and has participated in the Greater Valley Glen Neighborhood Council. He is a regular fixture in formal and informal “clean-up patrols”, filling bags with litter on nightly walks to prevent stormwater contamination. He provides an example for the neighborhood in how to turn small spaces into pesticide-free habitats with drought-tolerant plants that support pollenators.

Awards: Douglas Hileman received a President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2009 [Obama], in recognition of volunteer service in cooking food and serving the homeless for over a decade.