Upcoming Webcasts

Since the financial crisis of 2008, financial services firms are giving more attention to deferred compensation as a way to reduce risk and be in compliance with evolving regulations that require transparency and auditability. However, managing the administration of deferred compensation, especially in a compliant way, is complex, and most home grown, Excel-based, and packaged compensation systems were not designed to handle this complexity. This session is aimed at helping those who are tasked with managing deferred compensation and other forms of executive comp to understand what is needed in terms of a compensation system to administer these processes. The system needs to provide an easy way to manage complex schemes that are conditional based on the multi-year performance of the individual, the division, the company and the market over a 3 to 5 year period. It should allow for simulation and scenario building, and needs to provide robust reporting and analytics. All calculations, payouts, and changes must be transparent and auditable. And given that regulations and strategies may be constantly changing, the system needs to be easily adaptable to change in a way that can be handled by the compensation manager. The session will provide examples from some financial institutions who are using new technology to manage deferred compensation effectively.

Performance based employee stock options are becoming a more common form of compensation. Human resource professionals like them because they achieve non financial benefits such as:

1. Aligning company objectives;
2. Linking the compensation to the performance of the employee;
3. Turning the stock based compensation to a reward mechanism for high achievers.

The presentation will highlight the similarities and differences of Performance Grants to other types of employee stock-based compensation.

In this session, attendees will be able to learn about the different methods of granting performance based awards, the benefits of performance units and why companies should use them, and the step by step process of creating performance-based stock based compensation.

Ramy Taraboulsi, CEO of SyncBASE Inc., will cover these topics in detail and will be able to answer any questions you may have. With over 10 years of experience in the equity compensation industry, Ramy has seen many different methods of performance based compensation and will even draw on his experience through the performance options granted by SyncBASE, Inc.