Pay Governance LLC is an independent firm that serves as a trusted advisor on executive compensation matters. Our work helps to ensure that our clients' executive rewards programs are strongly aligned with performance and supportive of appropriate corporate governance practices.
Lindsay Zehner is a Consultant in Dallas office of Pay Governance. She has played critical project management and supporting roles in major executive compensation projects. Lindsay is a key contributor for client engagements focused on assessing the competitiveness of compensation programs. Her recent work has focused on peer group determination, compensation analysis and competitive market pricing, short- and long-term incentive plan design, and equity incentive valuations. She also works with clients on a variety of corporate governance issues including modeling equity plan approvals using ISS's Compass Model. Lindsay is an ISS Corporate Services Certified Compass Partner.
Prior to joining Pay Governance, Lindsay worked at Towers Watson and Mercer where she had five years of experience in Executive Compensation and three years of experience in Retirement as an Actuarial Analyst.
Lindsay graduated from Austin College with a degree in Mathematics and Business and received her M.B.A. with concentration in finance from the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
ISS recently announced important updates to its pay-for-performance tests used for evaluating U.S. companies. In addition to total shareholder return (TSR), ISS will use financial metrics to evaluate company performance relative to the ISS-defined peer group. This is the same peer group that ISS uses for the Relative Degree of Alignment (RDA) and Multiple of Median (MOM) quantitative tests. Continue reading
A new Equilar report featuring commentary from Pay Governance and Donnelley Financial Solutions analyzes the compensation discussion and analysis (CD&A) section of S&P 100 proxy statements over the last five years. With the average CD&A reaching nearly 10,000 words, the report revealed key strategies in how companies design and communicate pay practices by using alternative pay graphs, checklists and other visualizations that help draw investors to the most important information.
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October 4, 2016
Pay Governance Adds New West Coast Partner
Matt Quarles has joined the firm as a Partner. In this role, Quarles is responsible for working with clients across industries on a wide range of executive compensation issues. He will be based in Los Angeles and has nearly 20 years experience in the executive compensation consulting industry.
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Pay Energy®, a new proprietary assessment tool developed by Pay Governance LLC, helps companies consider the “drive, discipline and speed” inherent in current programs and in alternative designs that may be evaluated.
“The fundamental philosophy of executive compensation is to ‘attract, retain and motivate’ a talented management team. So it’s concerning when you hear incentive awards are just put in desk drawers until plans mature,” said Pay Governance managing partner John England.
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