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    Boardroom Comp Under COVID-19

    By Kristin Kentra

    Pre-pandemic, board compensation practices had become static and homogeneous, even as the role of non-employee directors continued to expand—but that was before the pandemic launched a global economic crisis. CBM recently spoke with Jim Heim, a lead consultant with Meridian Compensation Partners, about how the market downturn, coupled with a clear desire on the part … Continued

    Compensation Committees: What to Do With 2020 Bonus Plans?

    By Kristin Kentra

    At the onset of COVID-19, the popular advice for adjusting annual bonus pay was to “wait and see.”  Now several weeks in, some companies have begun restructuring bonuses. What actions are they taking? In this episode, Chris Havey, Partner & Lead Consultant with Meridian Compensation Partners, explains what he’s witnessing across corporate boardrooms right now: … Continued

    Director Compensation: Key Considerations During COVID-19

    By Kristin Kentra

    Much like executive compensation, director pay will be met with institutional shareholder scrutiny in the months ahead. Investors and proxy advisors will scrutinize stock option awards, meeting fees, and whether board pay remains steady amid lay-offs and revenue declines. How should compensation committees navigate the challenges ahead? In this episode, Meridian Partner Bob Romanchek shares his … Continued

    Compensation Committee Challenges Amid COVID-19

    By Kristin Kentra

    Most compensation committees finalized executive compensation plans, targets, and awards at the end of February, never expecting that COVID-19 would come next. Now boards are left to navigate a crisis environment with a very unpredictable future. In this episode of Inside America’s Boardrooms brought to you by Diligent, Meridian Partner Bob Romanchek speaks with TK … Continued

    Emerging Topics for Compensation Committees

    By Kristin Kentra

    Executive compensation continues to be a major focus for institutional investors, yet the conversation is shifting. Compensation committee agendas have expanded to include topics like human capital management, company culture, ESG, and succession planning—all factors that are increasingly tied to CEO pay. In this episode, Virginia Rhodes, Partner with Meridian Compensation Partners, outlines several of … Continued

    How Should Boards Handle Involuntary CEO Retirement?

    By Kristin Kentra

    In the first quarter of 2019 alone, more than 20 CEOs of large public companies announced their resignations. This uptick in C-level departures, which included several “involuntary retirements,” has compensation committees rethinking their approaches to officer-level severance pay. CBM recently spoke with Jonathan Szabo, lead consultant with Meridian Compensation Partners, about the conversations taking places … Continued

    How to Structure a Fair Executive Severance Agreement

    By Kristin Kentra

    Few things cause shareholder or media outrage like a poorly structured executive severance agreement. When a CEO is terminated for poor performance and walks away with tens of millions in severance payments, it’s understandably a hard pill for company stakeholders to swallow. So how can boards avoid the fall-out around severance pay following an executive … Continued

    Trends in Compensation: Committee Chairs & Lead Directors

    By Kristin Kentra

    Compensation trends for lead directors and committee chairs have been interesting to follow in the years after Sarbanes-Oxley. Audit committee chairs were the first to be rewarded with higher pay; compensation committee chairs quickly followed suit as issues like Say on Pay came to the forefront. Yet, we still see a significant gap in pay … Continued

    Long-Term Incentives: Compensation Committee Challenges

    By Kristin Kentra

    [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZ-8hhjzuI[/embedyt] While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has brought some positives to the economy and certainly to select individuals, it has also brought some challenges to compensation committees as they try to figure out the correct balance for long-term incentives as part of the executive pay package. In this episode, Bob Romanchek, partner … Continued

    Hot-Button Board Compensation Issues

    By Kristin Kentra

    Board compensation is always a hot topic for directors, with outside director compensation, lead director compensation, equity grants, the actual value of outside director pay and instances where companies have been sued for excessive outside director pay all front-burner topics. In the video above, Corporate Board Member recently sat down with Bob Romanchek, partner with Meridian Compensation Partners to talk … Continued

    Five “Must Know” Aspects of the Compensation Committee Process

    By Kristin Kentra

    [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8eqctYRuBM[/embedyt] Episode Summary Serving on the compensation committee has become a formidable challenge for most directors regardless of one’s background or career. Not only do compensation committees have to navigate a host of regulations and complex terminology, but over the last several years, shareholders have made a significant push towards transparency on how decisions … Continued

    Bob Romanchek on Inside America’s Boardrooms

    By Kristin Kentra

    Serving on the compensation committee has become a formidable challenge for most directors regardless of one’s background or career. Not only do compensation committees have to navigate a host of regulations and complex terminology, but over the last several years, shareholders have made a significant push towards transparency on how decisions are made. Bob Romanchek, … Continued

    Should Boards Reconsider the Benefits of Stock Options?

    By Kristin Kentra

    Meridian Partner Jamie McGough joins TK Kerstetter, host of Inside America’s Boardrooms, to discuss “Should Boards Reconsider the Benefits of Stock Options?” Watch Jamie explain why the use of stock options has diminished and why he thinks companies might want to reconsider stock option plans in their executive pay packages. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYeZNUFiRZQ[/embedyt]  

    Compensation Committee Best Practices: Pay Increases & Goal-Setting

    By Kristin Kentra

    Meridian Partner Matthew Isakson joins TK Kerstetter, host of Inside America’s Boardrooms, to discuss “Compensation Committee Best Practices: Pay Increases & Goal-Setting.” [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRPVdmcqfyo[/embedyt] Get more insight into compensation committee goal setting from Matt Isakson and Boardroom Resources here: “4 Guiding Perspectives for Compensation Committee Goal Setting.”

    Meridian Consultant Talks Compensation Timelines with NACD Online

    By Kristin Kentra

    [su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvlKEgotvE&feature=youtu.be” width=”700″ height=”420″ responsive=”no” rel=”no” fs=”no”][youtube_channel][/su_youtube_advanced] In this video from NACD Online, Meridian Compensation Partners lead consultant Matt Isakson sits down with Christopher Y. Clark, publisher of NACD Directorship magazine, to discuss executive compensation timelines as part of the Leading Minds of Compensation (West) event. View the entire panel here.

    Three Issues That Should be on the Compensation Committee Agenda

    By Kristin Kentra

    [su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMVEeD7uRmc” width=”700″ height=”420″ responsive=”no” rel=”no” fs=”no”][youtube_channel][/su_youtube_advanced] In this video, Meridian Partner Jared Berman sits down with TK Kerstetter of “Inside America’s Boardrooms” to discuss three issues that should be on the compensation committee agenda.

    Jim Wolf on Bonus Programs

    By Kristin Kentra

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