This elite group, comprised of experts in the field, personally nominates all invitees and develops the Agenda, which forms the basis of our discussions.
Forum Overview
Dates: September 25 - 27, 2024
Location: Atlanta, GA
For the past nine years, the Forum has brought together 48 corporate executive compensation leaders, lawyers and consultants representing the largest corporations and renowned firms from across America, to exchange ideas, share experiences, and validate strategies on the evolving shareholder, business, and regulatory pressures on executive pay.
Using candid, peer-driven discussion, this Forum explores key trends and developments in executive compensation demands, design and disclosure, to discern best practices that balance stakeholder interests.
2024 Steering Committee
Committee Co-Chairs
Kristen is responsible for Total Rewards, Performance, Global Talent Acquisition and HR Business Insights at Microsoft. This includes the global strategy and execution of employee compensation, benefits, relocation, performance management, global talent acquisition, M&A, stock design & administration and HR Business Insights. Kristen is a 20-year Microsoft veteran who spent the first half of her career in corporate finance controller positions in Office, Windows, Server and Xbox. She moved to HR in 2002 to lead University Recruiting and transitioned to Engineering Line leader roles in the Windows, Platforms and Services Division, Online Services and Devices organizations.
Committee Members
Irv Becker is a Vice Chairman in Korn Ferry’s Executive Pay & Governance business. He partners with boards and management teams to create sustainable organizations and enhance the effectiveness of the board/CEO relationship. As part of this effort, he works with these groups 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. Since 2008, Mr. Becker has been included almost every year on the Directorship 100, a list published by NACD Directorship magazine recognizing the most influential people who are shaping agendas and corporate governance issues in boardrooms across America.
Mr. Becker has worked with major public and private corporations across multiple industries. His clients range the spectrum from Fortune 100 companies to pre-IPO start-ups. He has worked with companies involved with initial public offerings, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as helped organizations develop new reward philosophies and approaches to support a major change in business direction.
Mr. Becker is a frequent speaker on executive compensation topics and has been quoted in numerous notable publications. He is often asked to contribute opinion pieces to the various Board magazines. He is also the co-author/editor of one of the most highly regarded books on Executive Compensation: Understanding Executive Compensation and Governance: A Practical Guide – Fourth Edition.
Mr. Becker received his Master’s of Business Administration in finance from Columbia Business School and has a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in accounting from the University of Massachusetts. He is a licensed CPA in New York State.
Nathan is the Vice President of Global Compensation for Cardinal Health. He is responsible for Cardinal Health’s compensation philosophy, maintaining market competitive pay for its approximately 48,000 employees worldwide. Nathan also is responsible for designing and administering strategic solutions for the organization’s broad-based, sales, and executive compensation programs, including both cash and stock-based incentives. He and his team are responsible for the design and administration of the organization’s pay equity processes, including information contained in the annual ESG report filing. He owns preparation of all materials used for the Board of Directors’ HR & Compensation Committee meetings and all compensation information disclosed in the Company’s annual proxy statement filing. Nathan also has oversight responsibilities for the global assignment program and providing mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures due diligence support for Total Rewards in partnership with Benefits leadership.
Vijay Iyer is SVP, Associate General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Booking Holdings Inc. Vijay has been with the company for 8 years, including serving as General Counsel of its KAYAK & OpenTable brands. He was previously with Sullivan & Cromwell for 8 years, in its New York and Tokyo offices.
Betsy Oliphant is senior vice president and managing counsel of State Street Corporation’s global human resources legal team. She leads a team of attorneys and legal professionals to advise State Street on employee relations, human resources, compensation, and benefits matters.
Marc Treviño is the co-head of Sullivan & Cromwell’s corporate governance practice and the managing partner of its executive compensation group. He joined the Firm in 1993 after graduating from Yale Law School (J.D., 1993) and summa cum laude from Princeton University (A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, 1990). Mr. Treviño is a recognized leader in structuring and counseling senior executives and boards in significant matters involving reputation, overlapping regulatory regimes, fiduciary conflicts and multiple jurisdictions, with a particular emphasis on matters involving financial institutions. Mr. Treviño teaches Corporate Crisis Management at the Yale Law School and is a co-author of The Public Company Deskbook (The Practising Law Institute), which has been hailed as “the bible for securities lawyers” by Fortune. For over twenty years Mr. Treviño has represented prominent institutions and individuals in their most public and challenging transactions. His clients have included AIG, Anthem, Bank of Butterfield, Bank of New York Mellon, Barclays, Cheniere, CIT Group, The Clearing House Association, Evercore, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Fortress, Goldman Sachs Group, ISS, JPMorgan Chase, Kodak, Lending Club, Microsoft, Moody’s, New York Stock Exchange, Priceline, RBS Citizens Financial Group, SandRidge Energy, Sotheby’s, UBS, UNFI, Vector Group, Verily Life Sciences, Volkswagen, Waymo and Wells Fargo & Company. Many of his most important matters are resolved without public attention.
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