An executive compensation consultant and expert witness with more than 30 years of experience, this professional specializes in executive compensation, director compensation, corporate governance, human resources, and performance-based rewards. More than 25 years of expert witness experience includes consultations, deposition testimony, courtroom testimony, expert work product, and arbitration-related assignments. Litigation experience encompasses wrongful discharge, pay inequity, reasonable compensation, bankruptcy compensation, golden parachutes and severance, employment agreements, non-compete agreements, shareholder matters, and disputes involving board and executive compensation practices.

Professional credentials include Compensation Committee Certification, Certified Compensation Professional, Certified Benefits Professional, Global Remuneration Professional, and Certified Executive Compensation Professional. Educational attainment includes a Bachelor of Business Administration with concentrations in marketing and finance and a Master of Business Administration with concentrations in management and human resources, supplemented by continuing education in board governance. His compensation and human resources work includes analyzing, designing, and implementing programs for directors, CEOs, senior executives, and employees; evaluating pay-for-performance relationships; and advising on compensation planning associated with mergers, acquisitions, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, start-ups, and corporate turnarounds.

Leadership experience includes service as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of an executive compensation and corporate governance consulting practice, as well as outside director positions with public and private companies. Board responsibilities have included compensation committee chairmanship and service on governance and audit committees, with oversight involving executive performance, financial reporting, regulatory compliance, ethics, risk management, board composition, and outside advisors. His broader advisory work addresses executive selection and mentoring, succession, organizational resources, strategic human resources, compensation committee guidance, and corporate governance.

Recognized professional roles include faculty service with WorldatWork, technical advisory responsibility for equity-compensation education, participation in commissions addressing stock-option accounting, ethics, and human resources policy, and advisory work concerning long-term incentive valuation for a federal economic statistics committee. He is also a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and has authored extensively on executive compensation, long-term incentives, corporate governance, ethics, and director pay. This combination of compensation design, board oversight, regulatory and governance experience, professional education, and expert testimony supports analysis of executive and director compensation, employment arrangements, reasonable compensation, pay practices, and corporate governance issues in disputed matters.