Operational Excellence in Equity Plan Administration – Automation, Data Driven Management, and AI Emerging Trends
This session will focus on areas that drive operational excellence and emerging trends:
1) Improving the participant experience through data visualization
2) Error tracking and plan improvements
3) Streamlining repetitive monthly business processes
4) Communication to senior leadership (in a consistent, timely, and visual way).
5) Emerging Tech – AI in Equity
Matt McKittrick, CEP
Partner, Moss Adams LLP
Matt has over 30 years of consulting experience providing a wide range of business process automation and data analytics solutions to help his clients address regulatory and compliance challenges.
Over the last 18 years, Matt has dedicated much of his career to solving complex employee stock-based compensation operational, accounting and tax challenges. He is a Certified Equity Professional and has deep experience working with the major equity broker, HRIS, and payroll platforms. ). Matt leads a diverse team of equity and HR focused business analysts, software development professionals and data scientists to help companies assess and streamline their equity and HR business processes and reporting functions. Over the last six years, Matt has also spearheaded the utilization of advanced data visualization tools in the stock-based compensation industry. These tools have helped his clients further unlock the value of their data by enabling them to quickly monitor trends and risks as well and identify and correct gaps and errors within their underlying data platform. Matt is on the board of the Seattle Chapter NASPP, serving as a VP of Marketing.
Kody Adams
Director of Shareholder Services, Domo Inc.
Kody has been in the Equity Compensation field since 2006, earning his full CEP certification in 2009. During his nearly 20 years in the industry, Kody has had the opportunity to work with E*TRADE Financial, Sallie Mae Bank, Qualtrics and Domo Inc. During his time in the industry, Kody has seen and worked on about every imaginable situation dealing with equity. Kody has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Business Administration from the University of Alabama and is currently working as the Director of Stockholder Services for Domo.