A Dallas senior paralegal and healthcare compliance and regulatory expert witness, retained through counsel in federal matters nationwide, drawing on three decades of prior healthcare operations, now concluded.
Andrew Jonathan Hillman is a Dallas senior paralegal and healthcare compliance and regulatory expert witness, retained through counsel in federal matters nationwide, drawing on three decades of prior experience building and operating FDA-regulated healthcare companies, now concluded. He maintains a private family office, Hillman Ventures, whose activities are kept private. Born and raised in Oak Cliff and South Dallas, he grew up working in the family businesses from the age of six and finished high school at Highland Park, class of 1995, a self-made arc that still shapes how he builds. He has since completed Harvard online courses in Jewish studies.
Four areas define the practice today, each grounded in three decades of healthcare operations and compliance.
Policy lifecycle management, SOP drafting, board reporting, and internal controls, conducted under retaining counsel.
How it works →Triage, document-retention playbooks, and internal compliance review across Stark, Anti-Kickback, and HIPAA matters, under counsel.
How it works →Evidentiary review, subpoena compliance, and expert-report support for white-collar and regulatory defense, under retaining counsel.
Advisory services →Operator testimony on healthcare operations and compliance, retained through counsel in federal matters nationwide.
Advisory services →Selected writing on commercialization, the FDA pathway, manufacturing, and the science behind modern medicine.
The real reasons behind commercialization breakdown, from clinical odds to capital and manufacturing.
Read the essay →A founder's guide from the IND to approval, including 351(a) biologics and expedited pathways.
Read the guide →Why process and manufacturing, not the molecule alone, decide which healthcare companies win.
Read the essay →A plain-language guide to current approaches in oncology, for education only.
Read the guide →Across three decades, now concluded, Andrew Jonathan Hillman co-founded, operated, and exited companies across surgical hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, clinical laboratories, pharmacy, and medical devices. That operating experience now informs his healthcare compliance and expert-witness work. Hillman Ventures, his family office founded in 1995, remains private.
The complete, source-cited account, public filings, recognitions, and federal records, is maintained independently at andrewhillmanrecord.com. Investment activity is detailed at Hillman Ventures, and community work at andrewhillman.org.
A selection from 89+ ventures across three decades, with locations. The full portfolio and exits are documented on the record.
Andrew Hillman's private family office. Its activities and holdings are kept private by design.
Hillman Ventures →The Andrew Hillman Family Room at the Lamplighter School, the Scholarship for Entrepreneurs, and the Grant for Biotech.
Service record →The Hillman Letter, notes on healthcare regulatory strategy, compliance, and enforcement.
The Hillman Letter →Andrew Hillman has helped take healthcare companies private and public, and has bought and sold healthcare businesses across multiple sectors. His portfolio includes Bone Solutions, Inc. (Southlake, Texas), an orthobiologics company with eight FDA 510(k) clearances.
The Apothecary Shop pharmacies (formerly Over the Counter, OTC) and Digimed.
Dynacq Healthcare (NASDAQ: DYII). The former Victory Hospitals, acquired by Nobilis Health Corp. (HLTH). Vista Hospital (Dallas, Texas, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas), a past hospital ownership. Andrew Hillman states Vista Hospital ranked number 2 on a 2002 Forbes list. That distinction reflects his account and is not independently verified here.
Medical groups, anesthesia groups, chiropractic groups, MRI and imaging centers, clinical laboratories, and pharmacies.
Andrew Hillman is the author of a white paper on Wharton's Jelly-derived mesenchymal stem cell exosomes, examining the underlying science, the FDA Section 351(a) biologic classification, cGMP manufacturing, and the regulatory pathway for cell-free regenerative medicine.
Exosome and mesenchymal stem cell derived extracellular vesicle products are not approved by the FDA for any indication. The work referenced here describes published scientific literature. It does not describe an available treatment.
Exosome and mesenchymal stem cell derived extracellular vesicle products are not approved by the FDA for any indication. The work referenced here describes published scientific literature. It does not describe an available treatment.
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Exosome and mesenchymal stem cell derived extracellular vesicle products are not approved by the FDA for any indication. The work referenced here describes published scientific literature. It does not describe an available treatment.
Andrew Hillman enjoys mentoring young people in business, an interest that pairs naturally with the Andrew Hillman Scholarship for Entrepreneurs. He is also a donor to and supporter of community and charitable organizations, including the Altus Foundation in Houston, the charitable foundation affiliated with ZT Corporate. His giving also includes family memorial gifts: a room named at Temple Emanu-El in loving memory of his grandmother, Fannie Bella Levine, and a nursing station at Methodist Dallas Medical Center in memory of his grandfather, Henry Bergman Levine. He also supports the Heroes for Israel Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting Israel's border communities and volunteer first responders, with a $100,000 gift in 2025.
Dated, verifiable milestones in community giving. Each entry is documented on this site or a third-party record.
A $300,000 gift established the Hillman Family Room at The Lamplighter School in Dallas. The Hillman Family Room is a named technology and robotics space for students.
Annual donations to Parish Episcopal School in Dallas, Texas, every year from 2020 through 2026.
A Dallas father of two, devoted family man, and proud American who keeps a disciplined, drug-free and alcohol-free routine, the gym, the Katy Trail, and road and pedal cycling, across Colorado, Dorado, Puerto Rico, and the people and places that have shaped a long career.
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Exosome and mesenchymal stem cell derived extracellular vesicle products are not approved by the FDA for any indication. References here describe published scientific literature. They do not describe an available treatment.
