Catherine Hastings
CPA, CIA
Senior Director, Internal Audit, BioMed Realty
Catherine Hastings is currently the Senior Director of Internal Audit for BioMed Realty Trust. BioMed is a commercial REIT focused on providing real estate to the life science industry. They acquire, develop, own and operate laboratory and office space for their tenants. She has served as Senior Director, Internal Audit since joining BioMed in 2009. Cats primary responsibilities are leading the internal audit function to examine and evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of the Companys internal control structure, risk management and governance processes. Her experience includes assessing risk, developing and prioritizing projects to execute within the internal audit plan, overseeing compliance reporting by all employees, managing the SOX reporting process on behalf of management and coordinating the overall enterprise risk assessment with management.
Cat is a Certified Internal Audit and a Certified Public Accountant. She holds an undergraduate degree from UC Irvine and a Masters in Accountancy from San Diego State University. Cat began her career at KPMG, where she left as a senior manager in audit after taking BioMed public in 2004. She then spent 4 years at the Corky McMillin Companies as Director of Financial Accounting and Audit prior to joining BioMed. She serves as an audit committee member for the County of San Diego since 2009 and serves the San Diego Chapter of the IIA (Secretary and Board of Governor) since 2011.