Philip Woodlief joins Hillman board

Cincinnati, Ohio-based The Hillman Companies, Inc., a distributor of fasteners and various other hardware items, has named a new director to its board.

Effective Feb. 10, Philip Woodlief was appointed to the Hillman board of directors, as well as to the Hillman Audit Committee.

Woodlief is an independent financial consultant and an adjunct professor of management at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Business, where he teachers financial statement research and analysis.

He was also an adjunct professor at Belmont University last year, where he taught integrated accounting principles.

Prior to his time in academia, he was VP and CFO of Doane Pet Care, and VP and corporate controller of Insilco Corporation before that.