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Agenda* - Day 1 -
January 11th, 2005
8:00 am
Conference Registration and Continental
Breakfast
8:50 am
Chairman's Opening Remarks
9:00 am
Executive Compensation: What's Going On?
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Current trends
• Are executives being paid too much?
• Evaluating whether forms of pay are inappropriate
Speaker: Stephen C. Zoellick,
Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
9:30 am
Legislative & Regulatory Review
• New tax legislation
• Changes in accounting rules
• Securities law update
Speaker: Michael Segal, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
10:15 am
Morning Break
10:30 am
Delineating Compensation Committee
Duties and Obligations
• Changes in compensation committee responsibility
• Potential Liabilities of the Compensation Committee and the Board of Directors
• Proxy Statement Disclosure
• Compensation committee reports
• Form 8-K
• CEO Pay and Perquisites
Speaker: Michael Melbinger, Partner and Head of Executive Compensation Practice,
Winston & Strawn LLP
11:15 am
Key Principles of Executive &
Director Accountability
• Determining what constitutes a conflict of interest
• Potential exposure for directors and senior managers
• Monitoring compensation
• Role of a lead director
12:00 am
Luncheon for Delegates & Speakers
1:00 pm
The Strategy: Moving Beyond the Stock
Option
• The current environment for executive pay
• What's happening with salaries, bonuses, deferred compensation, and most importantly, stock-based incentives
• How do employees value stock options? Results from a special study
• Strategies for moving beyond the stock option
Speaker: Ira Kay, National Director of Compensation Consulting,
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
1:45 pm
Rebalancing Long-Term Incentive
Plans
• Forms of executive compensation
• Modifying the components of executive compensation
• Current trends in granting CEO stock options
• Long-term compensation policies
Speaker: Peter Lupo, NY Compensation Practice Leader, Sr. Vice President,
Aon Consulting
2:30 pm
Making a Case for Performance-Based
Executive Compensation
• Aligning pay with company performance
• Are performance based incentives working?
• Strengthening the link between CEO pay and performance
• Developing performance based compensation arrangements
• Balancing pre-determined formulas and discretion
Speaker: Alan Johnson, Managing Director, Johnson Associates, Inc.
3:15 pm
Afternoon Break
3:30 pm
Exploring the Evolving
Committee-Consultant Relationship
• The role of the executive compensation consultant
• Determining how much to pay
• Implementing best practices
Speaker: Beverly Aisenbrey,
Managing Director, Frederic W. Cook & Co.
4:15 pm
Board of Director Compensation
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Trends in director compensation
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Evaluating committee chair and member fees
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Equity compensation; options vs. full value shares
Speaker: Annette Leckie, Executive Compensation Consultant, Hewitt Associates
5:00 pm
Conference
Day One Concludes
*agenda subject to change
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