| Joe Steakley is Senior Vice President – Internal Audit
Department for Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA, one of the nation’s
leading providers of healthcare services. HCA operates over 170
hospitals, has approximately 190,000 employees and generates over
$25 billion in revenue. In November 2006, HCA was involved in a $33
billion leveraged buyout. He joined HCA in 1997. Prior to joining
HCA, Joe was a partner at Ernst & Young, where he worked for 22
years.
Joe oversees HCA’s Internal Audit Department, which is
responsible for auditing facility financial statements, ensuring
audit compliance and providing business office support. He is also
responsible for the Enterprise Risk Office and Business Continuity
Planning of HCA.
He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and the Tennessee Society of Certified Public
Accountants. He has served as a member of the Statement of Position
Task Force (SOP 99-1) that issued, in May 1999, guidance to
practitioners in conducting and reporting on agreed-upon procedures.
Joe is a member of the MTSU Accounting Advisory Board and a member
of the Advisory Board to the Center for Continuous Auditing based at
Texas A&M University. Community activities include being an
executive board member of the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy
Scouts of America, past president of Community Nashville, board
member of the Tennessee Repertory Theatre, past member of the
Campaign Cabinet of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, and
past President of the Nashville Downtown Lions Club.
A native of Nashville, Joe earned a bachelor’s degree in
accounting from Middle Tennessee State University in 1975. Joe and
his wife, Brenda, who also attended MTSU, have two children, Blair
and Nathan. |
