Farient Advisors | Executive Compensation Consultants

Our Experience

How a Luxury Private Global Retailer Competed for Public Talent

For a major private equity-owned luxury retailer facing competition from publicly traded competitors, Farient Advisors assessed the existing compensation practices of the executive team against a mix of public and private peers to ensure the ability to compete for talent.

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Our Team

Meet Dayna Harris, Partner

Dayna is a Partner with over 20 years of experience providing advice on executive and Board compensation. She focuses on designing incentive programs that align compensation with business strategy and value creation for shareholders.

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Our Experience

How a Company Plans for U.S. IPO

A leading fintech company reached out to Farient Advisors, the GECN Group’s North America team, which collaborated with our GECN Asia team to leverage their local Chinese market expertise and experience with U.S. executive compensation best practices.

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Our Team

Meet Marc Hodak, Partner

Marc is a Partner with more than 25 years of experience developing and designing executive pay and incentive programs that are shareholder-friendly, attractive to management, and responsive to the needs and concerns of Boards.

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Research

2018 Global Trends in Corporate Governance

Corporate governance is attracting an unprecedented level of attention – from governments, investors, board directors, and even the public. Download the report to better understand the implications of best practices and regulation as they develop, locally and around the world.

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Our Team

Farient Hires R.J. Bannister as Partner and COO

R.J. brings 30 years’ of experience consulting to the S&P 1500 and large private companies and has worked with companies across multiple industries. Please join us in welcoming RJ to the team.

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Market Issues in Focus: Goal Setting

Farient believes that of all the design features of compensation, goal setting has one of the most significant effects on alignment. Goal setting is all about striking the right balance between establishing measures and setting goals that are at once motivational to executives and accretive to shareholders. Historically, most companies set goals relative to a budget that is established from an internal perspective, which we refer to as a “mark-to-budget” approach. In contrast, we believe goals also need to be set relative to standards that support stock price increases and create shareholder value over time, which we refer to as a “mark-to-shareholder” approach.

Forbes - Executive Pay Watch

August 20, 2019

Forbes – Good Governance: Do Boards Need Cyber Security Experts?

While opinions differ on the need for cybersecurity experts on certain boards, there is a general consensus among management, boards, and investors alike that this need is growing. Given this trend, I spent time with Bob Zukis. Bob is the founder and CEO of the Digital Directors Network, professor of Management and Organization at the USC Marshall School of Business, retired PwC Advisory Partner, and author and speaker on digital governance and the impact of disruptive technology on business strategy.

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NACD Director Training

December 7

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Farient Advisors provides international expertise by partnering with our Global Governance and Executive Compensation Group (GECN), which includes an affiliation of boutique consultancies around the world.

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The Farient Say on Pay Tracker monitors and aggregates Say on Pay results, and provides a summary of SOP votes with easy to access/easy to read tables containing all companies with SOP votes of < 50% and 50-80%.

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