Executive Compensation: Hot Buttons to Consider

Patrick has 10 years of experience consulting on all aspects of executive compensation strategy and design, as well as governance matters. His particular areas of focus include incentive design, pay-for-performance relationships, tax and accounting implications, and financial goal setting. Patrick co-leads Meridian’s accounting valuation team, serving as a firm-wide resource on valuation models for equity incentives (e.g., Monte Carlo). Patrick also assists clients across the firm as part of Meridian’s Performance Measurement Team, which does considerable research and analysis on metric selection, value creation, and goal setting.

He has experience working with companies in a variety of industries, including technology, industrial manufacturing, media/advertising, retail, energy, automotive, cryptocurrency, and real estate. His clients range in size from small start-ups to S&P 500 companies. He has also worked with private companies, including those that are financed through private equity. 

Patrick is a frequent writer and speaker on emerging issues in executive compensation. He has spoken at numerous conferences, including those held by the Corporate Board Member and Equilar. 

Patrick holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Patrick is located at the company’s New York, NY office.

Jessica has more than 10 years of experience advising corporations regarding executive compensation. She has assisted organizations with benchmarking, corporate transactions, equity plans, severance arrangement and incentive design. She also has drafted reasonableness opinions for tax exempt entities. 

Jessica works with organizations in all industries including health care, insurance, manufacturing, and technology. She works with large cap and small cap companies and also leads Meridian’s tax exempt team. 

She has published articles in the NACD Directorship magazine and has been a speaker for World at Work. She is a member of the American Bar Association. 

Jessica has a JD and and an LL.M in employee benefits from The John Marshall School of Law. Prior to becoming a consultant, she was an attorney with the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration. 

Jessica is located at the company’s Lake Forest, IL office.

Sue Stoffer is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP’s Atlanta office practicing in executive compensation and employee benefits law. Sue has spent more than 30 years, including many years with a large international law firm based in New York, counseling clients on equity and non-equity incentive plans and complex retirement plan and health and welfare plan compliance issues. Sue also served as the in-house employee benefits counsel for Time Warner Inc., assisting the company with challenging merger and acquisition issues as they related to a multitude of compensation and benefits arrangements covering a wide-spectrum of employee classifications.

Sue is the co-author of the Executive Compensation Answer Book (Wolters Kluwer) and an active member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Labor and Employment section of the American Bar Association. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law.

Tim is Co-Partner in Charge of EisnerAmper LLP's Personal Wealth Advisors Practice and Co-Chair of the Asia Practice Group and Family Office Services Group. He is also Vice President of  EisnerAmper Wealth Management Corporate Benefits. He has served on the firm’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining EisnerAmper, he was a Partner with a Big 4 accounting firm and served as Partner-in-Charge of their New York Metro and Northeast Area Private Client Advisory Practice. He holds an undergraduate degree in Business (Beta Gamma Sigma) and Master’s Degree in Taxation from Widener University, is a CPA (Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and the Houzhou China Institute of Certified Public Accountants), a Personal Financial Specialist from the AICPA, Investment Advisor Representative, and Selected Employee Benefits and Tax specialist.  He holds a Certificate in Financial Management for Family Offices from Pepperdine University.