Today Compliance Week begins the first of an ongoing series of weekly conversations with executives at U.S. public companies who are currently involved in establishing and developing compliance programs. Our first conversation is with Jay Haberland, vice president of business controls at $30.7 billion United Technologies Corp., who describes the type of internal control testing being conducted by his 90-person internal audit department.

You were named vice president of business controls in May 2003. How did that job come to be created at UTC?