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| A little bit about our host... |
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| Fred Whittlesey | |||||||||||||||
| Fred Whittlesey is a Principal and leader of the West Region Compensation practice of Buck Consultants. He specializes in compensation strategy, director and executive compensation, and equity-based compensation. He is co-founder of the Global Equity Organization (GEO), a Founding Member of the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, past Chair of the Advisory Board for the Certified Equity Professional Institute, and a current member of the Executive Compensation Task Force of CompensationStandards.com. Fred is a faculty member and certification course developer for WorldatWork’s “Accounting and Finance for HR Professionals” and basic and advanced “Executive Compensation” courses in both classroom and webcast formats. He has conducted hundreds of presentations, seminars, course sessions, and webcasts on the topic of compensation. Fred received his MBA from UCLA and graduated from San Diego State University with a BA in industrial/organizational psychology. He earned the Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation from Santa Clara University and the Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation from WorldatWork. | |||||||||||||||
| GUEST: Michael Bendorf, Executive Director, GEO | |||||||||||||||
| JULY 2008 | |||||||||||||||
"Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? An Introduction "As GEO approaches its 10th anniversary a leadership change is underway. Fred interviews Michael Bendorf, the new Chief Executive/Executive Director of GEO and discusses his background, his deep history in equity compensation, GEO’s value proposition for issuers and providers, how next year’s Conference in Paris might be different that those in the past, and where GEO might be 5 or 10 years from now.
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| GUEST: Dr. Sandy Jacoby, UCLA Anderson School of Management | |||||||||||||||
| JUNE 2008 | |||||||||||||||
"What Ever Happened to Theory Z?"In the early 1980s, there was a suggestion that Japanese-style management was the solution to America’s waning productivity and global competitiveness. More than 25 years later, not only has this premise been tested and refuted, but in an environment where corporate governance is a central issue Japan is at the tail rather than the head of progress. But complex historical, social, and cultural issues make it difficult to compare and contrast American and Japanese business environments, governance practices…and equity compensation approaches. Fred interviews Sandy Jacoby of the UCLA Anderson School of Management whose professorship in the business, history, and public policy departments provides a unique perspective on these issues. Dr. Jacoby’s latest book The Embedded Corporation provides an interesting point of departure for understanding why corporate governance and equity compensation are complex topics not easily reconciled between the two nations.
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| GUEST: Warren Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson | |||||||||||||||
| MAY 2008 | |||||||||||||||
"Taking it Public: Equity Compensation and Venture Capital"The business environment is full of mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, IPOs, private equity deals, and joint ventures - transactions have become the norm rather than the exception. Combined with equity market volatility, the value of equity compensation for employees has never been more uncertain. Despite all of this and the softening of the markets, Initial Public Offerings are still the big news for employees with pre-IPO stock options. After the IPO is another story – issues of haves and have-nots, brain drain, companies moving from stock options to restricted stock early in their post-IPO life cycle – all hot issues for equity professionals. But pre-IPO little has changed – a focus on large allocations of stock options to all employees may be the one constant we have seen during the turmoil of the past few years. Fred’s guest is Warren Packard, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a global venture capital firm. Hear Warren’s views on how the venture capital world continues to see the use of all-employee stock option programs as the key to attracting and retaining the smartest people, and how he thinks companies should be dealing with post-IPO issues.
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