For institutional investors and proxy advisory firms alike, environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) related concerns have become an increasingly important topic for companies. As such, incorporation of goals related to ESG objectives have made there way into executive compensation programs. This presentation will go into ESG-related trends for executive compensation programs, and what we expect for the future.
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Speaker Bios:
Vance Yudell:
Vance Yudell is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Executive Compensation and Benefits Practice. Vance provides advice to corporate clients for executive compensation matters, including issues related to stock options, restricted stock, non-qualified retirement plans and deferred compensation. Mr. Yudell partners with clients to navigate issues to improve key human resource practices, provides customized compensation and benefits solutions from executives to broad-based employees, pay structure design, organizational analyses, performance management, and job analysis. He has led project teams through the short- and long-term incentive design process and provided background and expertise when structuring market comparator groups. He also has significant experience analyzing and developing key employee incentive programs (KEIPs) and key employee retention programs (KERPs) for companies in bankruptcy. Vance is a Certified Executive Compensation Professional (CECP) through the WorldatWork organization.
J.D. Ivy:
J.D. Ivy is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Executive Compensation Practice. Mr. Ivy assists clients with issues related to stock options, restricted stock, non-qualified retirement plans, deferred compensation, global compensation strategies, golden parachute rules and the one million-deduction limitation. Included within is designing compensation programs for executives and members of a company’s board of directors, as well as bankruptcy compensation (Key Employee Incentive Plans (KEIPs) and Key Employee Retention Programs (KERPs) and emergence grants). Mr. Ivy received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Abilene Christian University and a master's degree in business administration from Texas Tech University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) through the WorldatWork organization.