Douglas J. Beeuwsaert, MBA CIA

Practice Leader – Governance, Risk and Compliance

Douglas (Doug) J. Beeuwsaert is a Practice Leader with Lyndon Group serving clients that have needs with various governance, ethics and compliance projects. He has over 20 years of progressive experience including serving as the Chief Audit Executive and Chief Ethics Officer of public and privately held companies. He has implemented and directed several innovative and highly respected corporate governance functions and has the ability to quickly identify opportunities to align ethics and compliance initiatives with organizational objectives thereby improving stakeholder returns.

Education & Professional Certifications

Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA): Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
National University: MBA, Finance
California State University, Fullerton: BA, Accounting

Experience

Mr. Beeuwsaert has successfully assisted Lyndon Group clients with:

• An assessment of the ethics and compliance processes and controls  for a $1 billion food manufacturing company
• An assessment of the compliance program at a healthcare organization
• Evaluations of Codes of Ethics/Conduct to ensure compliance to regulatory requirements and best practices
• Implementations of whistleblower hotlines and related case management systems , improving effectiveness and efficiency of the overall process

Before leading Lyndon Group’s Governance and Compliance practice, Mr. Beeuwsaert was the Vice President, Performance and Assessment of the non-profit think tank Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG). OCEG provides objective standards, guidelines and online resources to help organizations Drive Principled Performance™ by integrating governance, risk management, internal control, compliance and ethics processes. Mr. Beeuwsaert was responsible for Enterprise member development in the internal audit, ethics and compliance communities and assisted with the development of various ethics and compliance related materials and tools.

Prior to OCEG, Mr. Beeuwsaert was the Vice President, Internal Audit and Loss Prevention at Anchor Blue Retail Group, Inc., where he established the Internal Audit function for this $400 million retail chain which had over 250 stores in 35 states and over 4,000 employees. Additionally, he initiated and led the Sarbanes-Oxley readiness effort, including implementation of a new whistleblower hotline, a revision of the code of ethics and implementation of improved pre-employment screening processes.

Mr. Beeuwsaert previously served as the Vice President, Internal Audit and Loss Prevention, Chief Ethics Officer at PETCO Animal Supplies (NASDAQ: PETC), a $2 billion public specialty retail company with over 750 stores in 47 states and 17,000 employees, where he implemented the internal audit function. He also initiated and directed the ethics and compliance program which included an employee hotline, improved code of ethics, an ethics committee, and a company-wide ethics awareness program. He was also a member of various corporate governance committees focusing on SOX 404 compliance, corporate disclosure, inventory record accuracy and physical inventories. Mr. Beeuwsaert was also involved with security of customer information, customs compliance and retail store weights and measures compliance. At PETCO, he became involved with OCEG, serving on the OCEG Leadership Council.

At HomeBase (NYSE: HBI), later becoming known as House2Home, Mr. Beeuwsaert was the Assistant Vice President, Internal Audit where he established a proactive corporate audit department for this $1.6 billion home improvement retail which had 89 stores in 10 states. Mr. Beeuwsaert also initiated a formal corporate compliance program that included a code of conduct, employee hotline, pre-employment screening policies, and fraud reporting mechanisms.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Beeuwsaert was the Manager of Internal Audit at Furon Company and his accounting and audit career began at Rockwell International and Mitsubishi Motors of America.

Professional Organizations & Community Involvement

Mr. Beeuwsaert is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and volunteer member of the IIA’s Quality Assessment Program. He has been the Vice President of Programs and Board of Governors member for the IIA Orange County Chapter and Academic Relations Chair for the San Diego Chapter. He is also a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and has spoken at PricewaterhouseCoopers, National Retail Federation (NRF) and IIA events as well as featured in articles in Compliance Week, Chain Store Age, OCRegister.com and LATimes.com. He has assisted the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and has participated in volunteer efforts at elementary schools in the Placentia-Yorba Linda School District. Doug resides in Yorba Linda, California with his wife and two children.