About Andrew Hillman, Dallas
Andrew Hillman is a Dallas healthcare compliance expert witness and senior paralegal, retained through counsel, with three decades operating healthcare companies.
Andrew Jonathan Hillman is a Dallas senior paralegal and healthcare compliance expert witness, retained through counsel in federal matters nationwide. He is not an attorney. He is the principal of Hillman Ventures, the Dallas family office he founded in 1995, which invests personal capital in FDA-regulated healthcare and biotechnology. He has more than thirty years of co-founding, operating, and exiting companies in FDA-regulated healthcare. He advises founders, owners, boards, and investors on growth, regulatory strategy, and capital. The advice comes from work he has been accountable for.
Four chapters.
Operating years (closed)
For three decades he built and operated FDA-regulated healthcare companies, including surgical hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, clinical laboratories, pharmacy operations and medical-device businesses. Named companies include Bone Solutions, Inc. and Cornell Pharmacy, and several of his companies exited to Next Health.
Expert practice (open)
Since 2020 he has served as a healthcare compliance and regulatory expert witness in federal matters nationwide, retained in writing through counsel. He is also a senior paralegal, not an attorney, and does not give legal advice.
Writing and podcast
He writes The Hillman Letter, a weekly letter on Substack, publishes essays on Medium, and posts research papers with permanent Zenodo DOIs linked to his ORCID. The Hillman Letter Podcast is educational only, not legal advice.
Ventures
He is principal of Hillman Ventures, a private Dallas family office founded in 1995. Its activities and holdings are kept private by design.
What he will not do: take an expert engagement outside retaining counsel, or begin one before conflicts are reviewed. Scientific questions are addressed against the peer reviewed literature rather than advocacy.
What do you actually do in an engagement?
I advise companies that operate under FDA and CMS oversight. In an engagement I go deep on the business. We look at revenue, operations, regulatory pressure, and leadership. The aim is better decisions.
You get one view of your situation that connects the business to the rules it answers to. What the regulator permits decides what you sell and when.
When I take on an engagement, I say which role I am in and where Hillman Ventures sits. If I advise you as a consultant, I tell you how any investment interest touches the work. If I advise you as an investor, I tell you where my role ends and where your team or outside counsel takes over. You get an honest view with nothing held back, from three decades in FDA-regulated healthcare.
The advice rests on a documented operating history.
The companies, the operating history, and the public record are published in full on the sites below. Where a primary source confirms a claim, it is cited.
Who do you work with as a strategic advisor?
I work with operators, founders, and investors who run or back healthcare, biotech, and other complex service businesses.
On the operator side, that includes clinics, hospitals, diagnostics groups, telehealth and medical-adjacent services, and other teams dealing with real patients, real compliance, and real cost pressure. On the founder side, it includes biotech, frontier health, and data-driven ventures building products or services that live under FDA, CMS, privacy, or similar oversight.
On the investor side, I work with private investors, family offices, and funds looking at healthcare, biotech, and complex service portfolios. I help you understand how growth plans, regulatory risk, and execution reality line up with your capital decisions. You get a view that respects both the business and the investment thesis.
If you run or back a regulated business and want sharper growth, regulatory, or portfolio decisions, I can help. I work best with people who carry real responsibility and want direct guidance.
Two services.
Start with a diagnosis, not a pitch.
New clients start with a short, paid Diagnostic Advisory Engagement. A brief qualifying exchange comes first, so we both know it is the right use of your money.
The Diagnostic Advisory EngagementMedia and booking
Journalists, producers and counsel can book a meeting on Calendly, read The Hillman Letter on Substack, or find media resources on the press and media page.
Who is Andrew Hillman Dallas?
Andrew Hillman Dallas is Andrew Jonathan Hillman, a Dallas Senior Paralegal and Healthcare Compliance Expert Witness retained through counsel on federal matters nationwide. He is not an attorney. He is the principal of Hillman Ventures, a private Dallas family office founded in 1995. His work covers healthcare compliance, healthcare regulatory education and FDA biologics regulation, and his papers are listed on ORCID and deposited on Zenodo.
Citations
- ORCID 0009-0001-5396-321X (publication list)
- Structured review, Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21209815
- Narrative review, Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23574345
- Spine disc paper, Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20978822
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes from Wharton's Jelly, Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20974697
- The Biologics Paradigm: Section 351(a) vs. Section 361, Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21142612 (also on Issuu)
Investigational literature only. Exosome and MSC-EV products are not FDA-approved for any indication.
Scholarship and grant proof.
Andrew Hillman funds two live nationwide $1,000 undergraduate essay awards from personal funds. Program sites and coverage:
- Andrew Hillman Scholarship for Entrepreneurs · also on andrewhillman.org/scholarship-2026/
- Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech (2027 cycle open)
- Press: National Law Review · Yahoo Finance · The Globe and Mail (Newsfile)
LinkedIn Experience titles for the same person: Healthcare Compliance Expert Witness, retained through counsel. Principal, Hillman Ventures. Senior Paralegal (healthcare fraud and regulatory). Founder, Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech. Profile: linkedin.com/in/andrew-hillman-dallas.