Fred Whittlesey is a Senior Consultant with Hay Group. He specializes in compensation strategy, director and executive compensation, and equity-based compensation. He is co-founder of the Global Equity Organization (GEO), a Founding Member of the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, past Chair of the Advisory Board for the Certified Equity Professional Institute, and a current member of the Executive Compensation Task Force of CompensationStandards.com. Fred is a faculty member and certification course developer for WorldatWork’s “Accounting and Finance for HR Professionals” and basic and advanced “Executive Compensation” courses in both classroom and webcast formats. He has conducted hundreds of presentations, seminars, course sessions, and webcasts on the topic of compensation.

Fred received his MBA from UCLA and graduated from San Diego State University with a BA in industrial/organizational psychology. He earned the Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation from Santa Clara University and the Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation from WorldatWork.