About the Event:
Designing Executive Compensation with Governance in Mind: From Concept to Approval offers a practical, end-to-end look at how executive pay programs are developed, evaluated, and approved within a strong governance framework. Moving beyond theory, this session walks compensation professionals through the real-world process of translating business strategy into pay design, incorporating key governance considerations across annual and long-term incentives, employment arrangements, and change-in-control provisions.
Attendees will gain insight into aligning pay with performance while managing risk, leveraging peer groups and benchmarking effectively, and anticipating the questions and expectations of Compensation Committees. Through an interactive case study, sample committee dialogue, and live polling on common judgment calls, participants will leave better equipped to design, defend, and implement executive compensation programs with confidence.
Location:
USI Offices, 3110 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 1000, Falls Church, VA 22042
Agenda:
10:30 am - 11:15 am - Presentation on Executive Comp framework and Governance
11:20 am - 11:45 am - Breakout and Exercise or Client Business Case discussion
11:50 am - 12:15 pm - Readout
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm - Q & A
*Snacks will be provided
Speakers:
Alexander Yaffe, Managing Director, Pearl Meyer
Alexander is a managing director at Pearl Meyer. He is the former president and CEO of Yaffe & Company and a second-generation executive compensation expert with two decades of experience in the field. As the leader of Yaffe & Company, he oversaw its geographic expansion from 10 to 37 states, development of complementary service lines, and worked with clients whose net revenues ranged from $10M to greater than $1B, allowing for a varied perspective on similarities and differences based on geography, size, and organizational design.
Alexander has assisted hundreds of tax-exempt boards and their leadership teams in assessing executive compensation programs, executive performance evaluation methods, retirement plan designs, leadership transitions, succession planning, and retention planning. Additionally, he works with hospitals and integrated health systems to develop comprehensive physician compensation governance practices, assess current-state compensation and productivity relative to the market, and develop next-generation plan designs. A common theme across his consulting engagements is aligning data, relationships, and circumstances to drive mutually beneficial outcomes for organizations, individuals, and affected stakeholder constituencies.
Alexander has participated in expert panels on these topics, given presentations, and led board education programs nationally. He published his second monograph with the AHA Center for Healthcare Governance titled The Health System-Physician Relationship Continuum: What Boards Need to Know (Oct 2015).
Alexander graduated from Full Sail University in 1999 with a degree in film/television production. In 2012, he continued his studies at Columbia University, pursuing a degree in economics and philosophy.
Steven Hall, Principal, Pearl Meyer
Steven Hall is a principal at Pearl Meyer. He has over 20 years of experience advising domestic and international clients on executive and board compensation. Steven partners with his clients to develop executive pay programs that motivate, attract, and retain top-quality talent with the goal of driving long-term growth for shareholders. Steven advises clients of varying sizes, organizational structures, and industries, including Fortune 500 organizations, privately held companies, and pre-IPO ventures.
Prior to joining Pearl Meyer, Steven was a principal at a global HR consultancy for four years, and prior to that, he worked at a boutique executive compensation firm based in New York for 16 years.
Steven is a Certified Executive Compensation Professional and holds a BS in business administration from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University.
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