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| A little bit about our host... |
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| Fred Whittlesey | ||||||||||||||||
| Fred Whittlesey is Founding Principal of Compensation Venture Group, Inc., a Seattle-based consulting firm specializing in compensation strategy, 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. |
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| GUEST: Sri Ramamoorti, partner in the National Corporate Governance Group of Grant Thornton LLP |
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"Corporate Governance and Equity Compensation: Fraud, Failure, and Folly"The term "corporate governance" seems to enter every discussion of equity compensation but the concept is often limited to accounting fraud, internal controls, or perceptions of overpaid executives. Corporate governance is the set of systems, processes, laws, and institutions intended to ensure that the providers of capital get an appropriate return on their investment through resolution of the "principal-agency problem" and ensuring economic efficiency. Which brings us to equity compensation, often blamed as a source of fraud, a cause of corporate failures, and a questionable use of corporate resources. The designers of share plans, and the recipients of share-based payments, reside at opposite ends of the governance spectrum, with many intervening processes and systems in between. Fred's guest is Sri Ramamoorti, partner in the National Corporate Governance Group of Grant Thornton LLP and member of the Advisory Board of the CEP Institute. Fred and Sri discuss the multi-faceted nature of corporate governance as it applies to designing and managing equity compensation plans, and how we can position them as the solution to corporate governance aspirations rather than the problem with corporate governance today.
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| GUEST: Charles Haggerty, Chief Executive Officer of Le Conte Assoc., LLC |
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""Sitting in the Hot Seat, Lightning Rod Included: Driving Compensation Governance"Fred interviews Charles Haggerty, retired Chairman and CEO of Western Digital Corporation and currently a member of the Compensation Committees of five public US companies. Mr. Haggerty shares his views on the new SEC disclosure rules, the challenges of balancing compliance and strategy, the difficulty of properly interpreting market data, and the current proxy advisory and political environment. Having just emerged from the most intense proxy season ever, Mr. Haggerty’s insights and comments are of value to all equity compensation professionals as we find an increasing number of constituencies imposing their views and influence on pay practices worldwide. Biography of Charles A. Haggerty
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| GUEST: Anne C. Ruddy, CCP, CPCU, President, WorldAtWork |
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"Around the World of Work - So little time, so much to know"(Free drink at GEO Conference to first person to cite the source of that tag line)Fred interviews Anne Ruddy, President of WorldatWork, "The Total Rewards Association." Their discussion focuses on two growing themes in the field of pay: the notion of "total rewards" and the spread of US-based pay concepts outside the US. Is the notion of total rewards - including "work-life" - compatible with the "work hard, create value" culture encouraged by equity compensation? Can the two co-exist in an organization? What is the impact of total rewards thinking in the highly technical field of equity compensation? And given the spread of equity-based pay around the world over the past decade, will these total rewards concepts catch on as well? Should the US continue exporting compensation ideas, or perhaps try to strike a better balance of trade? Do equity professionals need the broader perspective promoted by the total rewards movement? How can we keep up with the simultaneous broadening and deepening of the topic of pay? Biography of Anne C. Ruddy, CCP, CPCU
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