2. Authors and Editors
Eric Hosken, Partner
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Eric Hosken is a Partner at Compensation Advisory Partners LLC (CAP) in New York. He has over 25 years of executive compensation consulting experience working with senior management and compensation committees on all aspects of executive compensation, including total compensation review, annual and long-term incentive design, performance measurement and director compensation. He has worked with public and private companies across multiple industries, including financial services, manufacturing, professional services, pharmaceutical and telecommunications. Eric is a frequent speaker on executive compensation topics and has written articles for numerous publications, including CNBC.com, Executive Counsel, HR People & Strategy and WorldatWork’s workspan.
Bonnie Schindler, Partner
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Bonnie Schindler is a Partner at CAP in Chicago. She has over 30 years of combined experience in consulting, human resources, and human resource communications. Bonnie helps clients design and communicate compensation programs for executives, boards of directors, and employees. Bonnie works in a variety of industries, including financial services, technology, manufacturing, and professional services. In addition to working with public companies, she works extensively with privately-held and family-owned businesses and with tax-exempt organizations. Bonnie co-leads CAP’s private company research surveys and is a certified executive compensation professional (CECP), as designated by WorldatWork.
Assistant Author and Editor
Grace Tan
Grace Tan is a Senior Analyst at CAP in New York. Grace has co-authored and provided research to CAP’s research reports on executive compensation trends, such as annual incentive and long-term incentive payouts, moonshot awards, and long-term incentive goal disclosure. Her research for CAP has been published by Agenda and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
Our Partners
Roman Beleuta, Partner
Roman Beleuta is a Partner and Northwest Market Co-Lead in CAP’s Seattle office. He has over 10 years of experience working with public and private companies on a broad range of executive and board of director compensation issues. Roman’s work includes developing competitive compensation levels for senior executives, annual and long-term incentive plan design, board of director compensation, board of director self-evaluation surveys, equity plan proposals, pay for performance analyses, and benchmarking. He has worked with clients in various industries, including insurance, financial services, food distributors, healthcare, energy, retail, and consumer brands.
Shaun Bisman, Partner
Shaun Bisman is a Partner at CAP in New York. He has over 15 years of experience consulting to management and compensation committees. Shaun provides compensation consulting services to both public and private companies, assisting with corporate governance, peer group development, performance measurement, pay-for-performance validation, incentive plan design, and director compensation.
Michael Bonner, Partner
Mike Bonner is a Partner at Compensation Advisory Partners in New York. Since joining CAP in 2013, he has worked with compensation committees and senior management teams to address a wide array of executive and non-employee director compensation issues. His typical projects include incentive plan design, executive and non-employee director compensation benchmarking, and performance measurement. Mike has experience working with both public and private company clients across industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, and retail. He also has experience working with companies on executive compensation matters in special situations, including mergers and acquisitions and IPOs.
Melissa Burek, Partner
Melissa L. Burek is a Partner at CAP in New York. She has over 25 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 areas 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.
Peter T. Chingos, Partner Emeritus
Peter T. Chingos is a nationally recognized executive compensation consultant and is a Partner Emeritus at CAP in New York. He consults with CEOs, boards of directors, and company management in all major industries on a wide range of executive compensation and human resources issues.
Kyle Eastman, Partner
Kyle Eastman is a Partner and Northwest Market Co-Lead in CAP’s Seattle office. With over a decade of experience, he advises board compensation committees and senior management teams on executive and non-employee director compensation matters. He delivers innovative solutions that align pay with performance, support strategic business objectives, and consider broader human capital management issues, including talent strategy and organizational design.
Margaret Engel, Partner
Margaret Engel is a Partner at CAP in New York. She has provided board and management executive compensation consulting services for over 30 years. Margaret has broad experience, with particular experience in retail, consumer products and telecom industries. She has consulted in all aspects of executive compensation and program design, including IPOs, mergers, spin-offs and other corporate transactions. The chapter on compensation in mergers and acquisitions is based on an article Margaret wrote for CAP.
Dan Laddin, Partner
Dan Laddin is a Partner at CAP in New York, with approximately 25 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 issues/compliance, as well as outside director compensation programs. He has experience working with both private and public companies across industries.
Kelly Malafis, Partner
Kelly Malafis is a Partner at CAP in New York. She has over 25 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 across a variety of industries, consulting on all areas of executive and board of director compensation. Kelly has also provided advice on compensation issues for privately-held companies and companies with special circumstances such as spin-offs and IPOs.
Lauren Peek, Partner
Lauren Peek is a Partner at CAP in New York. She has over 15 years of experience in advising compensation committees and senior management on executive compensation strategy development, evaluating pay and performance relationships, annual and long-term incentive plan design, board of director compensation, the proxy and CD&A, and corporate governance issues.
Rose Marie Orens, Partner Emeritus
Rose Marie Orens is a Partner Emeritus at CAP in New York. She has consulted on executive and director compensation issues for over 20 years, with a focus on tying executive compensation to business strategy and enhancing the linkage between performance measurement and rewards. She specializes in working with company management, compensation committees and boards across industries, with particular expertise in the financial services industry.
Susan Schroeder, Partner
Susan Schroeder is a Partner at CAP in Los Angeles. She has more than 25 years of experience advising Boards and company management on compensation strategies, performance measurement customization, and short and long-term incentive plan design. Susan’s experience includes work for Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller public, private, and not-for-profit organizations across many industries, including commercial and investment banking, investment management, manufacturing, professional services, real estate, and technology. Over the years, Susan has developed a particular expertise in developing incentive plans that reward for long-term value creation where publicly traded stock is not available.
Matthew Vnuk, Partner
Matt Vnuk is a Partner at CAP in New York. He has 20 years of experience advising boards and management in all areas of executive and director compensation, across a wide range of public and private companies, with a focus on the high-tech companies, as well as the insurance, payment processing, manufacturing and apparel industries. Matt is a frequent speaker on executive compensation topics and has been quoted by or written articles for numerous publications, such as Agenda, Corporate Board Member, Directorship, Fortune, WorldatWork’s workspan and The Wall Street Journal.
Compensation Advisory Partners (CAP) is a leading, independent executive compensation consulting firm. We specialize in executive and director compensation and related corporate governance matters. Our consultants serve as independent advisors to boards and senior management at many leading publicly traded companies. Since being founded in 2009, CAP has helped hundreds of clients with compensation strategy and pay program design, while ensuring sound corporate governance principles. We work across industries, and with publicly traded, privately held and tax-exempt entities of all sizes.
Please contact us at (212) 921-9350 or [email protected] if you have any questions about the issues discussed in this book or would like to discuss your own executive compensation issues. You can access our website at capartners.com for more information on executive compensation.
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