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June 7, 2010 - New York Stock Exchange and NACD Directorship "New Director Summit"

Given the rapid pace of change in the regulatory and legislative areas, incoming board members will face far greater challenges in carrying out their responsibilities than their predecessors.  The June 7th New Director Summit brought together a highly esteemed group of 50 recently appointed directors, committee chairs, corporate secretaries, lead directors, and CEOs who participated in a series of roundtables on corporate governance best practices.  Farient Advisors' Executive Chair, Robin Ferracone, and Senior Vice President, Todd Gershkowitz, hosted roundtables on new directives in compensation.  The most discussed topics during the roundtables included:

  • Pay and performance alignment - more important than ever
  • Short-term vs. long-term performance
  • Board of Director compensation
  • Pay design and structure vs. how a compensation committee functions (consistency)
  • Compensation Consultants - part of the problem, or part of the solution

May 16-19, 2010 - World at Work Total Rewards Conference

Robin A. Ferracone, Executive Chair of Farient Advisors, and Laurie A. Siegel, Senior Vice President Human Resources, Tyco International, co-presented on Aligning the Interests of Executive Shareholders - How to Walk the Talk.  Download the presentation here

May 13, 2010 - Forbes.com Forbes Video Network

In this interview with Forbes.com, Robin Ferracone encourages employees to differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack.

May 13, 2010 - Bloomberg.com - Chief Exeuctive Officer's Pay is Shattering the Glass Ceiling

Farient Advisors  Executive Chair, Robin Ferracone and senior vice president Todd Gershkowitz, share insights on rising pay for women CEOs.

May 6, 2010 - Bloomberg.com

CBS Overpaid Moonves $28 Million in Study of Chief Executives

Robin Ferracone  is quoted on  the misalignment between shareholder value return and CEO pay .

May 6, 2010 - MSNBC

Bailed Out Homebuilders

While workers faced massive layoffs, housing execs raked in the dough. Robin Ferracone featured in this article attributes homebuilders' outsized pay to a quirk of the industry: the involvement of founders and their sons.

April 2010 - Human Resource Executive Online

New government data finds that executive-pay limits did not cause a mass exodus of senior executives at the five troubled companies under the pay regulator's watch, contradicting what had been the popular thinking on Wall Street.  Todd Gershkowitz, Senior Vice President with Farient Advisors, weighs in on Pay Limits Didn't Provoke Mass Exodus.

April/May, 2010 - Directorship Magazine

Robin A. Ferracone and Todd Gershkowitz participated in an executive roundtable designed to help new board members understand the ins and outs of  executive compensation.

April 23, 2010 - Human Resource Executive Online

Robin A. Ferracone quoted in the Human Resource Executive Online article "Lowering the Bar on Performance"

April 19-20, 2010 - Infohrm's Workforce Analytics and Planning Conference

Robin Ferracone was featured as a keynote speaker at Infohrm's Workforce Analytics and Planning Conference on "Aligning the Interests of Executives with those of Shareholders...How to Walk the Talk with Analytics."
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