Summit Speaker Biographies

Marc Baranski, Semler Brossy Consulting Group
Managing Principal

Marc has worked with Board members and senior leadership for over 15 years to optimize business performance through addressing significant people issues that result from expansion into new businesses/geographies, mergers, changes in management, or change management initiatives.

His work with clients is focused on developing leadership talent and reward strategies, identifying performance measurement and management systems, and designing annual and long-term incentive systems for executives, sales professionals, and other key employees.

Prior to joining SBCG, Marc was a Principal at Mercer, in the human capital consulting business, serving as the investment management segment leader for the Global Financial Services Network. Before Mercer, Marc spent 12 years at Sibson, where he helped start and then led that firm's London office, and also managed the Financial Services Industry Practice and Princeton office.

He received a BA in economics and engineering from Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude, and as a Fugua Scholar with an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Marc also serves on the National Board and Executive Committee of the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, and on the Board of the Nassau Nursery School in Princeton.



Timothy J. Bartl, Center on Executive Compensation
Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Tim Bartl is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the Center of Executive Compensation, a Washington, DC-based research and advocacy organization dedicated to providing a reasoned perspective on executive compensation. In that role, he is responsible for overseeing all of the Center's operations. The Center is a division of HR Policy Association, which represents the Chief Human Resource Officers of 260 of the leading companies, and the Center's 60 Subscribers are HR Policy members.

Mr. Bartl has significant experience in executive compensation policy, and has been active in advocating for clearer disclosure of pay and performance, approaches for addressing incentives and risk, clawbacks and opposition to a mandated say on pay. He is a frequent speaker and writer on executive compensation policy.

Mr. Bartl has served as the Assistant General Counsel and Vice President of Corporate Affairs at HR Policy Association since 2000. In that role, was responsible for helping develop and articulate the association's positions on legislative and regulatory changes involving executive compensation taxation, disclosure and governance. He is the author of Executive Compensation in Competitive Markets: The Transformation of Executive Pay and What It Means for Shareholders, Policymakers and the General Public, a monograph which details the substantial changes in governance and executive compensation that occurred between 2000 and 2005.

Mr. Bartl formerly served as Legislative Director and Counsel to former Rep. Steve Gunderson (D-WI), and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School.



Irv Becker, Hay Group
National Practice Leader—Executive Compensation

Irv Becker is the National Practice Leader of Hay Group's Executive Compensation Practice. He works with Boards and senior management in the design and development of reward programs to align executive efforts and results with the success of the company. His financial background provides him with a grounded perspective on performance measurement and performance management. Irv was named to the 2009 and 2008 Directorship 100, a list published by Directorship magazine recognizing the most influential people who are shaping agendas and corporate governance issues in boardrooms across America.
Previously, he was the Executive Compensation National Practice Leader at a "Big 4" accounting and tax firm. He also has 10 years of corporate experience heading up the compensation and benefits functions at Goldman Sachs, Bank One/First USA Bank, The Home Depot, and Young & Rubicam.

Becker has authored and co-authored a number of thought leadership articles on executive compensation and is co-editor of the recently published book, Understanding Executive Compensation: A Practical Guide for Decision Makers. Becker holds a BBA from University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Columbia Business School.



Mark A. Borges, Compensia, Inc.
Principal

Mr. 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, first published in June 2008 by the American Bar Association, and a co-author of the Lynn, Borges & Romanek Executive Compensation Disclosure Treatise and Reporting Guide. 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.



Melissa Burek, Compensation Advisory Partners LLC
Partner

Melissa L. Burek is a Partner in Compensation Advisory Partners in New York. She has over 18 years of experience, consulting with CEOs, boards, and company management. She has significant experience in the insurance, automotive and consumer products industries. She consults in all area of executive compensation, including strategy, incentive plan design, performance measurement linkages, governance/regulatory issues and director compensation. She has overseen best practices studies with Fortune 100 companies and is a frequent speaker on executive compensation issues and trends.



Roel Campos, Cooley Godward Kronish
Partner In Charge
Former Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission

Roel Campos is the partner in charge of Cooley's Washington, DC office. He is a member of the Litigation Department and joined the firm in 2007.

Mr. Campos' practice consists of advising corporate management teams and boards of directors with respect to enforcement, internal investigations, prosecutions, securities and international regulation, and corporate governance. Mr. Campos is a highly sought after orator and regularly serves as lead speaker for prestigious legal and business conferences around the globe.

Mr. Campos was recently named to President Barack Obama's Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board. Prior to joining Cooley, Mr. Campos was a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was sworn in as a Commissioner of the SEC on August 22, 2002. On June 2, 2005, he was nominated by President George W. Bush for a second term, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 29, 2005.

Mr. Campos served for four years as the Commission's liaison to the international regulatory community. During his time at the SEC, Commissioner Campos became one of the best known regulators in the world. As the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissioners, he developed productive relationships with securities regulators in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. Mr. Campos also facilitated the development of international auditing and accounting standards through his work as Chair of the Monitoring Group, which oversees the setting of International Standards of Audit.

Mr. Campos has presided over hundreds of complex enforcement cases, applying the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. He also has extensively participated in the crafting and adoption of many of the SEC's recent major regulatory initiatives, including: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, mutual fund governance and compliance rules, and the new National Market System. In addition, Mr. Campos has spoken and published extensively in the areas of the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate governance, director liability, corporate penalties, international accounting and auditing standards, Securities Act reform, SRO and market reform, retirement investment protection, research analyst conflicts, and the internationalization of the securities markets.

Prior to being nominated to the Commission, Mr. Campos was one of two principal owner-executives of El Dorado Communications, a radio broadcasting company, at its headquarters in Houston, Texas. However, he began his career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. After attending Harvard Law School, he worked in Los Angeles, California for major law firms as a corporate transactions/securities lawyer and litigator. Beginning in 1985, Mr. Campos served as a federal prosecutor for five years in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. He successfully prosecuted complex and violent narcotics cartels and, in a celebrated trial, convicted defendants for the kidnapping and murder of a DEA Agent. He also investigated and prosecuted major government contractors for fraudulent conduct. He then returned to private law practice for several years before co-founding El Dorado Communications, Inc.

Mr. Campos has been recognized as one of the top Latino leaders in America. He is a founding member of the New America Alliance, a Latino initiative for raising awareness of investment opportunities in the Latino sector in the United States.



Ben Carter, Texas Instruments
Director, Global Compensation

Ben Carter is the Global Compensation Director for Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas. In this role, Ben has responsibility for all areas of compensation, including corporate compensation, sales compensation, executive compensation, market pricing, and stock programs. Ben also manages the Payroll and Global Mobility programs at Texas Instruments.

Prior to joining Texas Instruments in 2000 as part of an acquisition, Ben managed the compensation practices at Burr-Brown Corporation, an analog semiconductor company in Tucson, Arizona. Ben has spent his full career in compensation after graduating from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. He currently serves on the Equilar Advisory Board, and is an active member of the Conference Board and WorldatWork. Ben resides in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Jennifer, and three daughters.



Peter T. Chingos, Compensation Advisory Partners LLC
Senior Partner

Present Responsibilities
Peter Chingos is a nationally recognized executive compensation consultant and senior founding partner of Compensation Advisory Partners LLC (CAP) in New York. He consults with CEOs, boards of directors, and numerous company managements in all major industries on a wide range of executive compensation and human resources issues. Peter was actively involved in research focusing on the relationships between executive pay and company performance, particularly pay practices in high-performing companies. He also teaches executive compensation courses in WorldatWork's certification program.

Experience
Peter has over thirty years of experience in designing innovative executive compensation programs. Prior to founding CAP in 2009, Peter led Mercer's Executive Compensation Consulting Practice. Peter joined Mercer through the acquisition of KPMG's Executive Compensation Consulting Practice, where he was the senior partner. He has been a consultant to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Internal Revenue Service on a variety of regulatory issues related to executive compensation. In 1998, hewas awarded WorldatWork's Keystone Award for his many outstanding contributions to the compensation profession. Peter is widely published. He is editor of Responsible Executive Compensation for a New Era of Accountability (John Wiley) and Paying for Performance: A Guide to Compensation Management (John Wiley). He has contributed chapters to several publicationson the subjects of CEO pay, employee stock compensation, incentives, and executive compensation issues in a restructuring. He also co-authored Executive Pay and Company Performance, a study of high-performing companies sponsored by WorldatWork. Peter has been quoted in over fifty publications, including Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He is also a frequent public speaker. Peter is a member of WorldatWork's Executive Compensation Council and Technical Advisory Team. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals.

Education
Peter has a BA in Psychology from St. Francis College and an MS in Accounting from the Stern School of Business at New York University.



Jeffrey M. Cunningham, Directorship LLC
Chairman, CEO, Editorial Director

Jeffrey M. Cunningham is chairman, CEO, and editorial director of Directorship LLC, publishers of www.directorship.com and the magazine, NACD Directorship, the leading sources of boardroom intelligence and corporate governance information for public company directors. He has also served as non-executive chairman or board director of 10 public companies including Schindler Holdings, TheStreet.com, and Sapient. His career span includes publisher of Forbes magazine, president of CMGI, and managing director of Schroder Ventures. He is a frequent commentator, writer, and speaker on corporate governance and the boardroom.



Robbi Fox, Exequity
Senior Advisor

Robbi is a Senior Advisor with Exequity and is located in our Libertyville, Illinois offices. Prior to joining Exequity, Robbi was a Principal and member of the leadership group of a large, multi-national consulting firm where she managed that firm's Executive Compensation Center of Technical Expertise for over 20 years. The Executive Compensation Center of Technical Expertise had global responsibility for all technical areas impacting executive and director compensation, corporate governance, and corporate restructurings.

Robbi has almost 25 years of experience in consulting on director and executive compensation and corporate governance issues. Robbi specializes in program design work (e.g., short- and long-term incentive plans, executive supplemental retirement and deferral plans, and change-in-control, severance, employment contracts and retention plans), interface with boards of directors, technical issues related to executive and director compensation (e.g., tax, accounting, and securities rules and regulations), corporate governance issues, and executive compensation issues related to corporate restructurings, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, spin-offs, and divestitures.

Robbi is a well-known and frequent lecturer at numerous legal and business seminars and is the author of several articles. Most recently, Robbi served on the Technical Advisory Group to the Conference Board's Task Force on Executive Compensation. The Conference Board released the Conference Board Task Force on Executive Compensation Report in the Fall of 2009.

Robbi is a certified public accountant and received her B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.



Douglas J. Friske, Towers Watson
Managing Principal

Douglas J. Friske is a Towers Perrin Managing Principal and Executive Compensation and Rewards Global Practice Leader, based in Chicago.

Mr. Friske heads the firm's North American Executive Compensation and Rewards practice. His primary focus is developing executive remuneration programs that align management and owner interests, as well as providing organizations with effective means of communicating values and objectives. His assignments involve ongoing advisory work with senior management and outside directors on a variety of topics, including incentive plan design, employment contracts, change-in-control agreements, executive benefits and outside director pay.

Mr. Friske has worked with numerous Fortune 500 corporations and private organizations. A recognized expert on executive compensation, he frequently speaks at industry forums and conferences, and has published many articles in Workspan, Directors & Boards, Shareholder Value and other industry publications.

Mr. Friske has a BS in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and an MM in finance and marketing from the J.L.Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

M. Alan Gardner, Verizon Communications
Vice-President - Total Rewards, Corporate Human Resources

M. Alan Gardner is Vice-President — Total Rewards for Verizon's Corporate Human Resources Organization. Alan has global responsibility for the strategic development, planning, design, implementation, communication and administration of Verizon's broad-based compensation programs. He also has responsibility for international compensation and benefits, executive compensation and benefits and support to the Human Resources Committee of the Verizon Board of Directors.

Alan has also held leadership positions in other Human Resources areas such as HR Systems, Safety & Environment, HR Operations, HR Strategy & Planning, Leadership Development and Workforce Performance.

Alan began his career with Verizon in the Information Technology Organization. While in IT, he held positions as a Systems Analyst and in Project and Program Management. His career at Verizon has also included assignments with responsibility for Sales Operations and Training, Sales Territory Assignment and Sales Support. Prior to joining Verizon, he held positions at General Dynamics, Computer Associates, and American Express.

Alan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of North Texas, a Management Certificate from the University of Texas at Austin and is a graduate of the Executive MBA program at the Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business.

Todd M. Gershkowitz, Farient Advisors LLC
Senior Vice President

Mr. Todd Gershkowitz is a seasoned leader, manager and strategist with over 20 years of corporate and consulting experience. Prior to joining Farient Advisors, he was Managing Director and co-founder of Three Lens Advisors, a firm that provides independent analysis to help companies align compensation with business strategy, corporate culture and shareholder interests and which merged with Farient Advisors in January 2009. He has held senior corporate positions at Citibank, GE, IBM and UBS and also worked at Sibson Consulting, advising companies in the financial services, professional services, and technology and life sciences sectors.

In addition, Mr. Gershkowitz sits on the boards of two private companies: Oxford & Hill, a manufacturer of environmentally safe home products based in Miami, FL; and Vigix, an automated retail technology development firm based in Cambridge, MA. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Society of Sloan Fellows, an alumni advisory board at MIT Sloan.

Mr. Gershkowitz received his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and his Master of Science degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, MA. He has spent half of his professional career living and working internationally in Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.



Sam Guess, Wal-Mart
Vice President, Compensation and Human Resource Technology

Mr. Guess oversees the strategy, design, communication, and administration of the compensation programs and arrangements for executives and home office support associates, global equity plans, corporate relocation programs, and corporate human resource information systems. In addition, he participates in the preparation and presentation of materials to Walmart's Board of Directors; the Compensation, Nominating and Governance Committee (the "CNGC"); and the Equity Compensation Committee ("ECC").

He joined Walmart in 2002 as a Division Counsel in Employment Litigation and later, served as the Associate General Counsel of Corporate Governance, where he advised and served as secretary and counsel to the CNGC and ECC; administered the corporate secretary functions; managed periodic reporting to the SEC and NYSE; oversaw the preparation of the annual proxy statement; and provided legal support and advice to the Global Compensation Department and the Retirement and Savings Plans Department.

Prior to joining Walmart, Mr. Guess was in private practice and served as the Supervising Judicial Commissioner of Knox County, Tennessee and as a Special Judge for the Knox County General Sessions Court.

Education
University of Tennessee: B.S. 1991, MAcc. 1992, J.D. 1995



Steven E. Hall, Steven Hall & Partners
Managing Director

Steven Hall is a founding Partner and Managing Director of Steven Hall & Partners. He has consulted for over 30 years with senior management and Compensation Committees in planning and implementation of senior executive compensation programs and incentives for corporations, subsidiaries, business units, and divestitures.

His strong technical background in tax, accounting and finance is of major importance in the design of innovative remuneration programs. In addition to managing the Firm, Mr. Hall personally leads SH&P's practice among global corporations and in the health care, real estate, financial services, regulated utility, energy and retail sectors. He also serves as expert witness and consults with corporations and law firms on litigation matters.

Mr. Hall is a member of the faculty of NAACD where he teaches courses on executive and director compensation, and best practices in compensation committee governance. He is the co-author of the book Executive Compensation Best Practices and was identified by Directorship as a Top 100 Influential in Corporate Governance. Additionally, he is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, and Business Week and has been interviewed on Good Morning America, ABC's World News, CNBC, Fox Business and NPR.



Kevin F. Hallock, Cornell University
Professor of Labor Economics and HR Studies
Director, Institute for Compensation Studies (ICS)

Kevin F. Hallock is Professor of Labor Economics and of Human Resource Studies, Director of the Institute for Compensation Studies (ICS) and Director of Research for the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) in ILR School at Cornell University in Ithaca NY. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Senior Fellow for Executive Compensation, Board Compensation and Board Practices at The Conference Board and a member of the Board of Directors of WorldatWork.

His research is focused on compensation and labor markets. His work has been published in a variety of outlets and research has been supported from various sources, including the National Bureau of Economic Research, the United States Department of Labor, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His work has been discussed in various national and business publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Barron's, Business Week, and Newsweek. He has taught executives, undergraduates, professional master's students, and Ph.D. students.

Hallock earned a B.A. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.



Michael J. Halloran, Mercer
Worldwide Partner

Mike Halloran is a Senior Partner specializing in executive compensation. He has consulted on executive compensation and benefit issues for over 25 years, with a focus on: providing advice and direction to compensation committees on the levels, design and administration of total compensation packages for executives; strategizing with management teams on critical compensation issues, including the use of equity and design of total compensation programs; and designing executive incentive plans, with an emphasis on performance metrics and goal setting. He has extensive experience with companies in a wide variety of industries in the U.S. and Europe, working with a number of companies in the Fortune 250. He joined Mercer in the fall of 2001 when his prior firm, SCA Consulting, was acquired by Mercer. At SCA, he was a Senior Partner with responsibility for the firm's Dallas office. Before moving to Dallas, he was the managing partner of the New York office. Mr. Halloran has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School, specializing in finance and accounting.



Edward A. Hauder, Exequity
Senior Attorney

• Senior advisor: Ed has consulted with hundreds of companies in all areas of executive and director compensation. Ed focuses on keeping public companies out of the penalty box with shareholders and the media and helps companies understand and find practical solution for technical matters impacting compensation, e.g., financial accounting, securities, tax, and corporate governance issues. His expertise includes RiskMetrics Group (formerly ISS) compensation modeling and policies, which enabled him to create the Flexible Share Authorization to maximize equity plan flexibility.
• Articles and quotes on compensation issues: Ed has recently written articles that have appeared in The Corporate Board, workspan Weekly, BNA's Executive Compensation Library and Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal. Ed is often quoted in publications such as Forbes, HR Magazine and The NASPP Advisor.
• Background and education: Before joining Exequity, Ed was employed as a Principal at Buck Consultants where he managed the Technical Solutions and Innovation Team. Prior to that Ed was a member of Hewitt Associates' Executive Compensation Center of Technical Excellence. Ed received a B.A. in International Relations from Juniata College, a J.D., cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law, and an LL.M. (Tax), with honors, from IIT-Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Robert Jackson, Jr., U.S. Department of the Treasury
Office for TARP Executive Compensation

Robert Jackson, Jr, is currently serving as an advisor on executive compensation and corporate governance to senior officials at the Department of the Treasury and as Deputy Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation. Prior to joining the Treasury, Mr. Jackson practiced in the Executive Compensation Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Mr. Jackson is currently on leave from the faculty of Columbia Law School, where his research projects emphasize the empirical study of corporate governance questions. His prior work has been the subject of rulemaking commentary before the Securities and Exchange Commission. His most recent project, which he developed during his tenure as Terence M. Considine Research Fellow in Law and Economics and a Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, provides the first comprehensive study of executive compensation in firms owned by private equity investors.

Mr. Jackson has previously worked in investment banking and as a consultant to financial institutions. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School; an M.A. in Public Policy from Harvard; an M.B.A. from the Wharton School; and a B.A. in philosophy and Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, after studying at Oxford University.



Blair N. Jones, CCP, Semler Brossy Consulting Group
Managing Principal

Blair Jones joined Semler Brossy Consulting Group as a Managing Principal in 2005 after 15 years at Sibson Consulting where she was an SVP and Practice Leader for Leadership Performance and Rewards. Blair began her professional career at Bain & Company, helping clients develop pricing and marketing strategies. She has been published in many journals including Directors and Boards, World at Work Journal, Workspan, and The Corporate Board, and has authored chapters in three books on executive compensation. Her views have been sought by and quoted in publications such as The New York Times, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, and HR Executive. Blair holds a bachelor's degree with highest honors from Williams College.



Ira T. Kay, Pay Governance LLC
Managing Partner

Ira Kay, one of the nation's foremost experts on executive compensation, is the director of Watson Wyatt's North American compensation practice. In addition, Mr. Kay is a noted author of several books, frequently quoted source for major U.S. media and leading researcher on the relationship between executive pay and company performance.

Mr. Kay works closely with the boards and management of the world's best-known companies to help them develop executive compensation programs that increase shareholder value.

Mr. Kay offers valuable insights into performance-based pay, stock ownership and the value of stock options through his leading-edge and highly regarded research. He is the originator of the concept of realizable pay (vs. pay opportunity) that is now commonly used to assess the alignment between executive pay and performance. He has helped numerous companies to use their proxy disclosure to tell the "pay for performance story."

A long-time analyst of the executive pay model, Mr. Kay writes and speaks regularly on executive compensation issues. His most recent book (co-authored with Steven Van Putten) Myths and Realities of Executive Compensation, was published in Fall 2007 by Cambridge University Press. A dynamic speaker, Mr. Kay has presented analysis of executive compensation issues before the Federal Reserve Board, the SEC, the FASB and a U.S. Senate subcommittee. He is often quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, The Economist and other leading publications.

Mr. Kay has a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in economics from Wayne State University.



Thomas J. Kelly, Pearl Meyer & Partners
Managing Director

Tom Kelly, Managing Director in the Charlotte office, joined Pearl Meyer & Partners in 2009. He has more than 15 years experience consulting on executive compensation programs at public and private companies throughout the world.

Mr. Kelly's areas of expertise include incentive plan design and financial modeling; competitive assessment of compensation levels; utilization of stock-based incentives; proxy disclosure; and compensation issues related to business restructurings. He also has extensive experience with management compensation and with incentive plans for subsidiaries, joint ventures, privately-held companies, new business ventures and autonomous business units within existing corporations, as well as with policy issues raised by institutional investors and proxy advisory firms.



Dan Laddin, Compensation Advisory Partners LLC
Partner

Dan Laddin is a Partner in Compensation Advisory Partners in New York, with over 10 years of experience consulting to management and compensation committees, prior to which he was a CPA. He works with Boards and management, consulting in all areas of executive compensation, including annual and long-term incentive design, performance measurement, target-setting, regulatory/compliance, as well as outside director compensation programs. He has experience working with both private and public companies across industries with a focus in financial services and consumer products/services.



Dennis T. Leonard, Western Union
Senior Vice President of Global Compensation, Benefits & HR Operations

As senior vice president of Global Human Resources Operations, Mr. Leonard is responsible for the Global Total rewards strategy, including compensation, benefits, payroll and HRIS for Over 6,000 people in 50 countries. He is based in Englewood, Colorado at Western Union's global headquarters.

Prior to joining Western Union in April 2002, Mr. Leonard served as vice president and director, Financial Planning, Broker Transfer - Branch Operations and the Retirement Group, for Merrill Lynch from 1997 to 2002. In addition, he held the role of management consultant for Ernst & Young, LLP from 1996 to 1997. From 1990 to 1996, he held increasingly responsible management roles at Teachers Insurance Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF).

Mr. Leonard holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Central Connecticut State University and a M.B.A. in Corporate Finance from the University of Dallas. In addition, Mr. Leonard has obtained the following professional designations: Senior Professional Human Resources (SPHR), Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS), Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP).

Justin Levis, Council of Institutional Investors
Senior Research Associate

Justin Levis is a senior research associate with the Council of Institutional Investors. He works with Council board members to review and update the organization's corporate governance policies, which are used by the Council to determine whether and how to respond to actions taken by corporations, regulators and other actors in the capital markets. He also designs and implements educational and advocacy initiatives relating to the policies, and writes and speaks on corporate governance topics.

Before joining the Council, Levis reported on Capitol Hill hearings, briefings and press events for International Business-Government Counsellors Inc. and the National Association of Manufacturers.

Levis graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a B.S. in business. He is currently pursuing an M.B.A. from The George Washington University, where he is also an educator, a Marvin L. Kay Fellow in Finance and a Phi Delta Gamma Endowment fellow. Levis is a graduate of Toastmasters International's "Competent Communicator" program.

Karen Macke, The Hartford Financial Services Group
Senior Vice President

A frequent speaker for the Conference Board, The Economist, UN Development Programs, and WorldatWork, Karen's most recent topics have included:

• Use of Equity on a Global Basis — Cultural Considerations
• Addressing AIDS and the business impact in Africa
• The Challenge of Underwater Options
• Benefits and the Link to Total Rewards
• Managing Compensation Issues in the Asian Economic Downturn
• Remuneration Considerations in China and India
• Managing for both Growth and Returns
• Merger Integration — Overcoming Cultural Differences Between Two Companies
• Compensating Hot Skills in Technology
• Blue Ribbon Ethics Panel Member
• Change Management in Changing Organizations

In her current role, Karen is a Senior Vice President for The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG). Her responsibilities include the management of all executive compensation/ business compensation programs, benefits programs, and HR Operations as well as playing a key leadership role in the transition of the Human Resources team into a key strategic function within the business. Founded in 1810, The Hartford has over 29,000 worldwide employees and is a leading provider of investment products, life insurance, group and employee benefits; automobile and homeowner's products; and business insurance.

Prior to joining The Hartford in 2003, Karen was the Vice President of Worldwide Compensation Benefits, and Labor with responsibilities including executive compensation, all global compensation and benefit programs for the 35,000 employees at The Coca-Cola Company. From 1992 through 1999, Karen held a variety of executive roles at GE Capital with her most recent being the Director of Compensation responsible for the pay programs for 120,000 employees worldwide. Additionally, Karen held the Director of Compensation and Benefits for Continental Airlines and was a HR Manager at American General.

Karen has a Masters of Business Administration with focus in Finance and Marketing from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University.

Kelly Malafis, Compensation Advisory Partners LLC
Partner

Kelly Malafis is a founding partner of Compensation Advisory Partners LLC (CAP) in New York. She has over twelve years of executive compensation consulting experience, working with Compensation Committees and senior management teams. Kelly has worked with both large and small publicly traded companies in a variety of industries, including financial services, pharmaceutical, retail, insurance and publishing. Kelly's areas of focus include compensation strategy development, evaluating the pay and performance relationship for senior executives, annual and long-term incentive plan design, compensation program governance and board of director compensation.

Allison McBride, International Paper
Manager, Executive Compensation

Allison McBride joined International Paper in May 2000 as Manager, Executive Compensation. In 2001, she received the Human Resources Global Award of Excellence. Under her leadership, International Paper was awarded the 2002 "Best Use of Technology for Communication and Administration of a Global Stock Option Program" award by the Global Equity Organization. Allison has contributed to several seminars speaking on topics regarding executive pay and equity compensation – namely Performance Shares, as International Paper was the first Fortune 100 Company to make the bold move in LTI to 100% performance shares.

Prior to joining International Paper, Allison spent almost 10 years with Promus Hotel Corporation (now Hilton Hotels) where she held positions in both Human Resources and Finance following her employment with Ernst & Young. She has served as President of the Memphis chapter of the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals and has served on the Board of Directors of the Junior League of Memphis as the Treasurer. Allison continues her committment the West Tennessee Board of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation where she has been heavily involved for the last decade.

Allison received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Arkansas State University and she currently resides in Memphis, TN with her husband, Brian and two sons, Andrew and William.

Robert McCormick, Glass Lewis & Co.
Chief Policy Officer

Bob manages the analysis and drafting of 18,000 Proxy Paper research reports on shareholder meetings of public companies in 80 countries. Before joining Glass Lewis in September of 2005, Bob McCormick was the Director of Investment Proxy Research at Fidelity Management & Research Co., which he joined in 1997. At Fidelity, he managed the proxy voting of more than 700 retail and mutual fund accounts, holding 5,000 global securities worth in excess of $1 trillion. Prior to joining Fidelity, Bob was a staff attorney at Keenan, Powers & Andrews and Prudential Securities, both in New York City. Bob earned his law degree from Quinnipiac University School of Law after graduating with honors from Providence College. He serves on the board of the Northern California Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the International Corporate Governance Network's Shareholder Rights committee. Bob frequently speaks at industry conferences and has appeared on Marketwatch.com, CNBC television, Fox Business News television and Bloomberg television. Bob was named one of the 100 most influential people on corporate governance by Directorship magazine in 2008 and 2009. Bob was a panelist on the Public Consultation panel on Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis at the OECD.

Patrick S. McGurn, RiskMetrics Group
Special Counsel

Patrick S. McGurn is Special Counsel at RiskMetrics Group's ISS Governance Services unit (ISS). As the recognized standard in financial risk management, RMG has earned the trust and respect of over 2,300 institutional investor clients, including a broad range of investment managers, advisory and private wealth managers, mutual fund complexes, hedge funds and pension funds.

ISS is the world's leading provider of proxy voting services and corporate governance research. It recommends votes on ballot issues for more than 40,000 shareholder meetings across 115 markets around the globe.

Prior to joining RMG/ISS in 1996, Pat was director of the Corporate Governance Service at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a not-for-profit firm that provided governance research to investors. He also served as a private attorney, a congressional staff member and a department head at the Republican National Committee. He is a graduate of Duke University and the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the bar in California, the District of Columbia, Maryland and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Pat serves on the Advisory Board of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Pat is frequently cited by business publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Fortune. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, Bloomberg Radio and TV, BBC Radio, CBS Evening News, CNBC, CNN, Marketplace, NBC Nightly News, Nightly Business Report, National Public Radio, Tech TV and ABC's This Week. He is a frequent presenter at conferences.

Michael Melbinger, Winston & Strawn LLP
Chair, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice

Mike Melbinger is a partner in the law firm of Winston & Strawn LLP, and global head of the Firm's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Mike is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law and Northwestern University School of Law.

Mike is the author of the CCH treatise Executive Compensation, now in its Second Edition, the American Bankers Association's Compliance Guide to Employee Benefit Trusts, and dozens of articles on executive compensation and employee benefits topics. He also writes the popular "Melbinger's Compensation Blog" for CompensationStandards.com.

Mike practices exclusively in the area of executive compensation and employee benefit issues for corporations, partnerships, executives, boards of directors and fiduciaries. He also handles the benefits and compensation issues in litigation, bankruptcy, change in control, and public offering situations.

Mike was elected as a fellow into the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel in 2005. For years, he has been named a Leading Lawyer for Business by Chamber & Partners and one of the top 100 lawyers in Illinois by "Illinois Super Lawyers." Mike received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1980 and a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1983.

Suzan Morno-Wade, Hess Corporation
Vice President, Global Compensation

Suzan Morno-Wade is Vice President of Global Compensation for Hess Corporation. She is based in the company's headquarters in New York.

In her role, Suzan is responsible for formulating a global compensation strategy and developing programs and practices which attract, reward and retain top talent. In addition, as a member of Hess' Human Resources Leadership Team, she participates in setting a strategy to help build a strong HR function and deliver first-quartile programs.

Prior to joining Hess Corporation, Suzan spent most of her career in Silicon Valley's technology sector. For many years, she worked at Quantum Corporation, a global computer data storage company, where she led the company's worldwide compensation and benefits practice. While her first love is compensation, she has worked in various HR areas.

Suzan started her career in the finance field and an unexpected opportunity led her to choose a career in compensation -- to the amazement and chagrin of her professional colleagues!

Suzan earned a bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois. She is also a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) and a graduate of General Electric's Financial Management Program (FMP).

Suzan is a fitness enthusiast and enjoys exercising regularly. She also enjoys gourmet cooking, reading and travelling to new places. She is married and currently lives in New Jersey.

Tomoeh Murakami Tse, The Washington Post
Reporter

Tomoeh Murakami Tse is a New York-based financial reporter with The Washington Post. She has written about Wall Street banks, the economy, financial markets, government policy and corporate governance matters as part of the Post's team coverage of the global financial crisis. She is the Post's lead reporter on executive compensation. Tse joined the Post in 2006 as a real estate writer in Washington. She has also worked as staff writer covering retail, commercial real estate and minorotiy businesses, as well as schools, crime and government for Newsday, The Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She is a native of Japan and graduated from Stanford University.

Peter Oppermann, Mercer
Partner

Peter Oppermann is a Partner in Mercer's Human Capital business in its New York office, specializing in executive compensation, incentive compensation, and director compensation. He provides these services for various technology, consumer, manufacturing and service organizations including companies in retail, software, insurance, retail, Internet, manufacturing, and professional services organizations.

Mr. Oppermann has over 25 years of consulting experience. Before joining Mercer, he was a partner in the Performance and Compensation consulting practice of KPMG where he developed and managed executive compensation assignments. Prior to that, he was a principal in the Wyatt Company. Mr. Oppermann's corporate experience includes compensation and benefits management for SIAC, a subsidiary of the New York and American Stock Exchanges, and wage and salary administration for Sperry Corporation. His compensation experience includes designing and developing annual and long-term incentive compensation programs for executives, directors and senior management, developing compensation and retention programs for companies that are restructuring, spin-off companies, organizations going through an IPO and companies in bankruptcy.

Mr. Oppermann frequently speaks on compensation issues to local and regional compensation and human resource organizations. Recent topics have included, "Putting Performance in Your Stock Option Plans," "Paying for Performance in a Volatile Market," "Current Trends in Executive Compensation," and "Accounting for the Human Resource Professional." He is the author of a chapter on Director Compensation in Paying for Performance, a book by John Wiley and Sons and a chapter on Director Compensation in Responsible Executive Compensation for a New Era of Accountability published by Wiley.

He is a member of WorldatWork and NASPP.

Mr. Oppermann received his B.A. degree from Lafayette College and his M.B.A. from SUNY at Albany.

Jenny Ostendorf, Procter & Gamble
Associate Director, Global Compensation

Jennifer R. Ostendorf, CCP is Associate Director, Global Executive Compensation at The Procter & Gamble Company's world headquarters. She began her career in compensation 25 years ago as a Compensation Analyst at Burke Marketing Services in Cincinnati – arriving a week after the HR department's first PC. That meant she spent hours becoming the department PC resource, learning everything that Lotus 1-2-3 could do. In that assignment she eventually computed and graphed regression analysis (before it was simply a push of the button!) for the new compensation system she assisted in developing from scratch. Since then, that early PC experience led to assignments in HRIS along with other compensation roles at Burke and Cincinnati Children's Hospital before joining P&G in Research and Development HR in 1992. Jenny's current responsibilities include the design and delivery of executive compensation and equity awards to employees in more than seventy countries globally. She is the primary Human Resources representative for executive compensation reporting, including the annual proxy statement. She received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Ohio State University.

Sanjay Patel, Kraft Foods
Senior Director, Executive Compensation

Sanjay Patel is the Senior Director, Executive Compensation for Kraft Foods, Inc. In his role at Kraft Foods, he leads the compensation function in all program design and execution related to global executive compensation and stock-based incentives.

Prior to joining Kraft Foods, Sanjay spent over 10 years at Watson Wyatt & Company (now Towers Watson). His most recent role at Watson Wyatt was Practice Leader for compensation consulting in the Chicago office. In this role, he assisted clients in all areas of executive compensation, including competitive pay, annual- and long-term incentive valuation and design, employment contracts, severance and change-of-control, pay governance, and Board remuneration. Sanjay consulted with over 150 clients in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, high technology, financial services, and health care.

Sanjay has spoken in various capacities on topics related to executive and Board compensation. He has a B.S. in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Rob Patterson, Tesoro Petroleum
Managing Director, Compensation & Benefits

Rob Patterson is Managing Director, Compensation and Benefits for Tesoro Corporation, a Fortune 150 independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products based in San Antonio, Texas. He has been responsible for all executive and employee compensation and benefit for the past two years and led teams designing and administering executive compensation programs for over ten years at both Tesoro and AT&T. He holds a CPA license and has diverse background in financial reporting and auditing. Rob is a native of Oregon and graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans.

George Paulin, Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

George Paulin is Chairman and CEO of Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc. He has been a consultant specializing in the areas of executive and employee compensation for more than 25 years, and is nationally known as an advisor to board compensation committees and management.

He joined Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc. in 1982. He was named president of the firm in 1994, and assumed his current responsibilities in 2001. He opened the firm's Chicago office in 1983, and in 1987 he opened the office in Los Angeles where he currently resides. During the past two years, the Cook firm has served more than 50% of the current Fortune 200 companies, and over 1,800 major U.S. companies since the firm was founded as an independent organization owned by its principal consultants in 1973.

Mr. Paulin has ongoing advisory relationships with a diverse list of companies. Examples of those where he is retained as the independent board compensation committee advisor include Apple Computer, Baxter, Cisco Systems, Gap, Hewlett-Packard, 3M, Northrop Grumman, Pfizer, Pritzker Trust, Procter & Gamble, Qualcomm, Starbucks, Wells Fargo, and Yahoo!.

Mr. Paulin has a master's degree from the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois, where he has been active in alumni affairs and received their Distinguished Alumni Award in 1990.

Stephen Pennacchio, Pfizer
Senior Vice President, Executive Compensation Strategy & Programs

Steve leads Executive Compensation and serves as the Secretary to the Compensation Committee of the Board. He is a member of the company's senior management team and the HR leadership team, playing a key role in developing and driving a culture that recognizes and rewards high performance.

Prior to joining Pfizer on January 2008, Steve was Vice President, Global Compensation and Benefits for Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) where he was responsible for compensation design and strategy including policies, practices and all elements of remuneration.

His past experience includes compensation and benefits leadership roles in large organizations such as KPMG, Texaco and Merrill Lynch. At KPMG, he was a partner for 9 years serving a variety of clients on tax, compensation and employee benefit matters. At Merrill Lynch as First Vice President, Global Benefits and Executive Compensation, Steve led the executive compensation and global benefits functions.

In addition to being recognized as a leader in his field, Steve is a CPA, a member of the NY State Bar and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration. He holds his BS in Accounting from the University at Albany (magna cum laude) and a JD from Fordham University.

Michael Powers, Meridian Compensation Partners
Managing Partner

Michael is the Managing Partner for Meridian Compensation Partners. He was formerly Hewitt's global practice leader for executive compensation and corporate governance consulting prior to the spin-off of Meridian. Michael has almost 25 years experience consulting on executive compensation design issues, including substantial experience at the board of director level. Michael has testified to Congress, the SEC and the FASB on executive pay and governance issues. Michael also served on Hewitt's stockholder committee for the four years following Hewitt's IPO.

Clients Michael has recently served include: 3M Company; Baxter International Inc.; Cargill Incorporated; Dow Chemical Company; FMC Technologies; Hallmark Cards Incorporated; Illinois Tool Works, Inc.; Kraft Foods Inc.; The Procter & Gamble Company; Target Corporation; and W.W. Grainger, Inc. Michael is a frequent lecturer at national conferences and author of many articles, including in The WorldatWork Journal, Journal of Compensation and Benefits, and Directors & Boards magazine. Michael also co-authored a chapter on executive compensation in the book Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out.

Michael is an attorney and was a licensed certified public accountant. Michael has a JD and master's degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign.

Michael is located at the company's headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Stewart Reifler, Veddar Price
Head - NY Executive Compensation

Stewart Reifler is a shareholder with the law firm of Vedder Price P.C. and is based in New York City. He heads the firm's Executive Compensation Practice Group in New York. He negotiates and structures executive employment, executive severance, and executive compensation arrangements on behalf of both executives and companies. He represents Fortune 500 companies and their senior executive officers, boards of directors, and compensation committees. Mr. Reifler specializes in all aspects of executive compensation, including equity-based compensation, cash incentive compensation, deferred compensation, retirement and welfare-benefit arrangements, and director compensation. He has extensive experience in employment and severance agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance, and has been involved in many high-profile transactions.

Mr. Reifler is co-author of the Compensation Committee Handbook, 3rd edition, published by John Wiley & Sons. He speaks often on executive compensation and equity-based compensation topics, and has presented at national and local conferences of the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), American Lawyer Media, the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries, the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP), the New York State Employee Benefits Conference, WorldatWork and Wall Street Transcripts. He has been quoted in BusinessWeek, Fortune, Journal of Accountancy, International Tax Review and Practical Accountant. In addition, his articles on executive compensation have appeared in the National Law Journal, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, The Tax Executive, The Journal of Compensation and Benefits, Mergers and Acquisitions, Director's Monthly, Directors & Boards, Securities Regulatory Update, Corporate Business Taxation Monthly, Estate Tax Planning Advisor, and The Journal of Taxation of Employee Benefits.

Mr. Reifler is a licensed attorney in New York and Connecticut, and has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the United State Tax Court. He is a member of the ABA, the New York State Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and NASPP. Mr. Reifler is also a member of the AICPA Executive Compensation Steering Committee and the CompensationStandards.com Executive Compensation Task Force and serves on the Advisory Board of Corporate Business Taxation Monthly. In addition, Mr. Reifler is listed in Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and New York Super Lawyers.

Haroon Saeed, Prudential Financial
Vice President, Compensation

Haroon Saeed is the vice president of the Corporate Compensation at Prudential Financial. In this role he manages the enterprise-wide compensation plan and provides consulting services for business-specific programs on a global basis. He also provides design and analytical support to senior management and the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors.

Saeed's previous work experience includes senior compensation roles with CIGNA, American Express, Colgate-Palmolive, and Shearson Lehman Brothers. At American Express, he was part of the steering committee that led the design, communication, and implementation of a new company-wide compensation program. He also has extensive experience in executive compensation, compensation consulting, and international compensation.

Saeed began his professional career at Organization Resources Counselors (ORC), a human resources consulting firm based in New York. At ORC, he was responsible for developing subscription services and client consulting projects.

Saeed obtained his B.S. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh and received a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Daniel Scheinkman, Freddie Mac
Vice President, Executive Compensation

Daniel E. Scheinkman is the Director of Executive Compensation at Freddie Mac where he is responsible for the strategic design and management of all executive compensation and equity programs. In his role, Dan oversees compliance with established legal, accounting, regulatory, and governance requirements and develops short- and long-range strategies that shape the development of the total reward strategy.

Prior to joining Freddie Mac, Dan was a Manager in the Human Capital Practice at Ernst & Young LLP and a Senior Associate in the Human Capital Services Practice at Arthur Andersen LLP. He earned his B.S. in Human Resources and Management from Washington University.

Theodore Sharp, Pearl Meyer & Partners
Managing Director

Theo Sharp, Managing Director and executive compensation consultant in the Boston office, specializes in incentive plan design, deferred compensation, benchmarking, golden parachute design and evaluation, and the tax and accounting treatment of equity compensation. Mr. Sharp also has extensive experience in the design, implementation and legal aspects of retirement programs, welfare plans and benefits.

F. Daniel Siciliano, Stanford University Law School
Faculty Director, Arthur & Toni Rembi Rock Center for Corporate Governance
Associate Dean for Executive Education and Special Programs

F. Daniel Siciliano '04 is a legal scholar and entrepreneur with expertise in corporate governance, corporate finance, and immigration law. He assumes a variety of leadership roles at the law school, including faculty director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, associate dean for executive education and special programs and co-director of Stanford's Directors' College. He is also the co-originator of the OSCGRS (Open Source Corporate Governance Reporting System) Project. Previously, Siciliano was a teaching fellow for the law school's international LLM degree program in Corporate Governance and Practice and executive director of the Program in Law, Economics and Business. He is the senior research fellow with the Immigration Policy Center and a frequent commentator on the long-term economic impact of immigration policy and reform. His work has included expert testimony in front of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Prior to joining Stanford Law School, Siciliano co-founded and served as executive director of the Immigration Outreach Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He has launched and led several successful businesses, including LawLogix Group—named three times to the Inc. 500/5000 list. Siciliano serves as a governance consultant and trainer to board directors of several Fortune 500 companies and is a member of the Academic Council of Corporate Board Member magazine.

Matt Stinner, Pearl Meyer & Partners
Managing Director and Office Director

Matthew T. Stinner is a Senior Managing Director and head of the Boston office of Pearl Meyer & Partners. He advises clients on compensation strategy and governance philosophy and implementation, as well as in all areas of executive and employee compensation and benefits. He has expertise working with Fortune 1000 companies in a variety of industries, including professional services, insurance, life sciences, financial services, technology, industrial and consumer products.

Charlie Tharp, Center on Executive Compensation
Executive Vice President for Policy

Charlie Tharp is the Executive Vice President for Policy of the Center on Executive Compensation. In that role, Dr. Tharp is responsible for setting overall policy positions and research initiatives undertaken by the Center and representing the Center in public forums. He is also an instructor at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

Tharp has over 25 years of corporate experience, including key human resource positions with General Electric, PepsiCo, Pillsbury, CIGNA and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Most recently, Tharp served as the interim Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Saks, Incorporated. He has also served as an executive compensation consultant for the global consulting firm of Towers Perrin.

Tharp holds a Ph.D. in Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University, J.D. from the Quinnipiac School of Law, a Masters in Economics from Wayne State University and a BA from Hope College where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a Baker Scholar. In 1998, Tharp was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He previously served as President of the Academy, is currently a member of the NAHR Board of Directors and has served as a past Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of HR Policy Association.

Stephen Wallenstein, Director's Institute, University of Maryland
Director

Professor Stephen Wallenstein is a recognized expert in corporate governance and best practices for publicly traded companies in the US and abroad. He is the Director of the Directors' Institute at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, where he joined the finance faculty in 2009. From 1998 to 2009 he was a professor at the Fuqua School of Business and Duke Law School, founded the Duke Directors' Education Institute (DEI), and established the Duke Global Capital Markets Center (GCMC), a collaborative venture between Fuqua and Duke Law, serving as its Executive Director.

Professor Wallenstein created the DEI in 2002 to address corporate governance best practices with the support of the NYSE and SEC. The Directors' Institute brings together senior executive officers and board members of public companies with institutional investors, regulators, policy makers, experts from the legal and financial services industry, and academic authorities.

As a former practicing securities and corporate finance attorney, Professor Wallenstein understands the complexities of global capital markets and the issues facing Fortune 500 companies. He was a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of International Nickel Company (INCO) and its successor company, CVRD – INCO (Canada). From 2007-2009, he served as an Advisor on Corporate Governance issues to the Management Committee of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (VALE).

Steve is a frequent presenter at programs for corporate directors. He has lectured to the Boards of Directors of Activision Blizzard, Curtiss Wright, Albermarle, RH Donnelly, VALE and CVRD-INCO (Canada) on board structure and independence, the roles of chairman and lead director, the role and duties of the CEO, tone at the top, board committees and director evaluation, and the role of the Board in strategy, risk management and succession planning.

Professor Wallenstein holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a M.A. in government from Harvard University where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a B.A. from Cornell University, elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year.

Doug Wilson, Dover Corporation
Vice President, Human Resources

Doug joined Dover Corporation earlier this year as its first Global Leader of Compensation & Benefits. Doug is part of the team creating a centralized HR function covering Dover's 32,000 employees across a global portfolio of 40 operating companies in four business segments. Over the past 13 years, Doug has advised companies on compensation-related matters from both senior-level consulting and corporate roles. Prior to entering the human resources field, Doug spent seven years overseeing corporate financial restructuring projects as part of a Big 4 accounting firm.

Brit Wittman, Intel
Director, Global Compensation Corporate HR

Brit leads a global team responsible for the design, implementation and administration of all variable, equity and executive compensation programs for the 80,000+ employees of Intel. Additionally, Brit is responsible for the relationship with the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Intel in 2008, Brit was the Director of Executive Compensation for Dell, Inc. During his tenure at Dell, Brit was integral in shaping the HR strategies required to ameliorate the impact to the 80,000+ employees that resulted when the company failed to remain current in its regulatory filings with the SEC. He has also held executive compensation positions at Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and AT&T Corp.

Brit is a member of the faculty for WorldatWork. He is a former Board member of the National Center for Employee Ownership, and is a frequent speaker at a variety of Compensation & Benefits organizations events, such as: The Conference Board, WorldatWork, IQPC, NCEO and Fulcrum.

Brit holds a B.A. in History from Rutgers University.

James Woodrum, Exequity
Senior Advisor

Jim is a Senior Advisor with Exequity, and is located in the firm's Libertyville, Illinois offices. Jim has significant experience as an adviser to Compensation Committees and Boards of Directors. He has 25 years of human capital consulting experience, having served as a leader within the Executive Compensation practice of a large, global consulting firm. Jim spends the vast majority of his consulting time focusing on executive compensation and other governance matters. Jim's clients span a variety of industries, including a number of large and well-respected manufacturing, retail, and technology companies.

In addition to his role with Exequity, Jim is a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is the Associate Dean of the Executive and Evening MBA programs within the Wisconsin School of Business, and also teaches courses on strategy, leadership, and talent management. Jim has a unique perspective on the issues facing Compensation Committees, as he is a member of the Board of Directors – and the Compensation Committee – of Packaging Corporation of America, a producer of containerboard and corrugated products with 2009 revenues of more than $2 billion.

Jim received an M.B.A. in Finance and Industrial Relations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as a B.S. in Finance from Millikin University.