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Sweeping Executive Compensation Reforms Explored
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Mark A. Borges
Principal
Compensia
MARK A. BORGES is a principal with Compensia, Inc., a management consulting firm providing executive compensation advisory services to compensation committees and senior management of knowledge-based companies. From April 2003 until September 2007, he was a principal for Mercer in the firm’s Washington Resource Group in Washington, DC. Previously, Mr. Borges was a Special Counsel in the Office of Rulemaking, Division of Corporation Finance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Before that, he was General Counsel for ShareData, Inc. Mr. Borges practiced law with the firms of Ware & Friedenrich (now DLA Piper) from 1987 to 1992 and Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop) from 1982 to 1987. From 1981 to 1982, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Marion T. Bennett of the United States Court of Claims in Washington, DC.
Mr. Borges is the author of SEC Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules, published in June 2008 by the American Bar Association, and a co-author of the Lynn, Romanek & Borges’ Executive Compensation Disclosure Treatise and Reporting Guide, published in the Fall of 2008. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching a course of the securities law aspects of executive compensation.
A California native, Mr. Borges graduated from Humboldt State University in 1976. He received his J.D. from Santa Clara University in 1979 and an L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University in 1981. He is a member of the American Bar Association.
James D. C. Barrall
Partner
Latham & Watkins
Jim Barrall is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins and specializes in employee benefit and executive compensation matters. He is the Global Chair of the firm's Benefits and Compensation Group and Chair of the Los Angeles office Tax Department.
Mr. Barrall has more than 30 years of experience in representing companies and others in designing, negotiating and documenting employment agreements and executive compensation and benefit arrangements of all types in many contexts. He specializes in representing Boards of Directors, Compensation Committees and senior executives on corporate governance and compensation matters and in negotiating their compensation arrangements. Mr. Barrall joined Latham & Watkins in 1986 and has served on the firm's Associates Committee, Recruiting Committee and Investments and Benefits Committee.
J. Henry Oehmann III
Director, National Executive Compensation Services
Grant Thornton LLP
Henry is Director of the National Executive Compensation Services practice in Grant Thornton’s
Raleigh office. Henry has more than twenty-five years of executive compensation consulting experience.
Henry works extensively with compensation committees of public companies on executive
compensation and corporate governance issues. Prior to joining Grant Thornton LLP, he was Vice-President of Executive Compensation Services at Clark Consulting, a Principal and compensation practice
leader at Arthur Andersen and at Buck Consultants in Atlanta. In addition, he was Director of
Compensation and Employee Benefits at Progress Energy. His in-depth experience in the banking and
financial services industry is coupled with a wide-range of consulting engagements including both domestic and international clients across various industries.
Henry has provided consulting expertise in a variety of industries. He has substantial experience in banking and financial services. He has worked closely with boards and management of a number of public and private companies. He has assisted companies in developing the pay and performance link in stockbased compensation programs and cash incentive compensation arrangements, executive benefit and perquisite development and CIC and post-employment analysis. He frequently works with boards and compensation committees in matters involving executive compensation trends, the changing
regulatory environment and corporate governance matters.
Pearl Meyer
Senior Managing Director
Steven Hall & Partners
Pearl Meyer, Senior Managing Director of Steven Hall & Partners, has served for more than 30 years as independent advisor to Boards, Compensation Committees and senior management, here and abroad, in matters of executive and Board compensation, corporate performance and governance, organization and selection. Mrs. Meyer co-founded Steven Hall & Partners, as well as Pearl Meyer & Partners. She is known for the creation of groundbreaking, innovative compensation strategies that translate corporate goals into managerial results and rewards.
Mrs. Meyer and her Partners are retained as outside independent counsel by the Compensation Committees of Boards of Directors in the discharge of their responsibilities. She has played an integral role in developing many of today’s most widely used Board and executive compensation programs and arrangements. As a recognized authority on corporate governance and compensation, she also serves as expert witness in executive compensation litigation.
Mrs. Meyer is regularly quoted by major news organizations and is a frequent contributor to business periodicals. She has served as Chairman and keynote speaker for The Conference Board, the National Association of Corporate Directors, WorldatWork and the American Management Association, as well as for seminars at Harvard, Yale and other leading business schools.
A cum laude graduate with Ph.D. studies at the New York University Stern Graduate School of Business Administration, Mrs. Meyer received her initial training in executive compensation at Kraft.
She is listed in Who’s Who in America. Her memberships include: The Sedgewood Club, The Women’s Forum, The Women’s Executive Circle, WorldatWork, The National Association of Corporate Directors, The Conference Board, The Economic Club of New York and the NASPP. She has been honored by Mercy College, Legal Momentum, UJA Federation and The Directorship Institute as one of the “100 Most Influential People on Corporate Governance and in the Boardroom” for her contribution to the profession. She is scheduled to be inducted into The Directorship Institute Corporate Governance Hall of Fame in November 2010.
Thomas Quaadman
Executive Director for Reporting Policy and Investor Opportunity
U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness
Thomas Quaadman is the executive director for Reporting Policy and Investor Opportunity at the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. The Center was established in March 2007 to advocate legal and regulatory policifor the U.S. capital markets to advance the protection of investors, promote capitaformation, and ensure U.S. leadership in the financial markets in the 21st century.
Quaadman develops and executes strategic policies to implement a global corporate financial reporting system, address ongoing attempts of minority shareholder abuse of the proxy system, communicate the benefits of efficient American capital markets, and promote an innovation economy and the longterm interests of all investors.
Prior to joining the Chamber, Quaadman was chief of staff to Congressman ViJohn Fossella Jr. (R-NY) from 1997 to 2008. In that capacity, he helped establithe Republican Policy Committee Task Force on Capital Markets, Economic, and Information Security to develop a legislative program on economic competitiveness. Quaadman also worked on the passage of the Investors Capital Markets Fee Relief Act. This act reduced SEC transaction fees, representing a savings of billions of dollars for investors.
Quaadman graduated cum laude from New York Law School and is a graduate of the College of Staten Island. He is a member of the New York and Connecticut state bars. Quaadman and his wife, Tara, and their children, Creighton and Alexandra, reside in Alexandria, Virginia.
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