Agenda and Panelists Announced for SEC’s June 26 Executive Compensation Roundtable

12 p.m. ET

Doors Open

1  – 1:30 p.m. ET

Opening Remarks from Chairman Paul Atkins, Commissioner Hester Peirce, Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, and Commissioner Mark Uyeda

1:30 – 2:45 p.m. ET

Panel 1.  Executive Compensation Decisions: Setting Compensation and Informing Investment and Voting Decisions 

This panel will explore how public companies set compensation for their executive officers, including, who sets compensation, the factors that influence compensation decision-making, and the process by which compensation decisions are made. The panel will also discuss how investors consider executive compensation in making investment and voting decisions.

Moderator:

Keir Gumbs – Principal and Chief Legal Officer – Edward Jones 

Panelists:

• Debra A. Cafaro – Human Resources Committee Chair – PNC
• Ola Peter K. Gjessing – Lead Investment Stewardship Manager – Norges Bank Investment Management
• Ani Huang – President and CEO – Center On Executive Compensation 
• Blair Jones – Managing Director – Semler Brossy
• Michael Lennartz – Executive Vice President, Total Rewards – Mastercard
• Bob McCormick – Executive Director – Council of Institutional Investors

2:45 – 2:55 p.m. ET

Break

Panels 2 and 3.  Executive Compensation Disclosure: How We Got Here and Where We Should Go

These panels will discuss the evolution of executive compensation disclosure, including the 2006 amendments and the compensation-related rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. The discussion will explore whether the rules have achieved their policy objectives, the challenges in preparing the required disclosure, the types of disclosure that investors find material, and what the disclosure requirements should look like in the future.

2:55 – 4:10 p.m. ET

Panel 2

Moderator:

James Cotton – Assistant Corporate Secretary, Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Managing Counsel – United Airlines

Panelists:

• Mark A. Borges – Principal – Compensia
• Zachary Levine – Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Bank Counsel – Metropolitan Commercial Bank
• David Lynn – Partner – Goodwin Procter
• Michael McCauley – Senior Officer, Investment Programs & Governance – State Board of Administration of Florida
• Brandon J. Rees – Deputy Director, Corporations and Capital Markets – American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
• Roland H. Schustereder – Global Head of Total Rewards – ExxonMobil

4:10 – 4:20 p.m. ET

Break

4:20 – 5:35 p.m. ET

Panel 3

Moderator:

Ning Chiu – Partner – Davis Polk & Wardwell

Panelists:

• Terry Adamson – Partner – Infinite Equity
• Sarah E. Fortt – Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary – Ford Motor Company
• Drew Hambly – Investment Director, Stewardship – California Public Employees’ Retirement System
• Ronald O. Mueller – Partner – Gibson Dunn
• John Roe – Head of Investment Stewardship in the Americas – BlackRock
• Marc Treviño – Partner – Sullivan & Cromwell