Farient Briefings April 2025 | The Evolving Skills of Comp Committee Chairs
April 29, 2025
The Evolving Skills of Comp Committee Chairs
The role of the Compensation Committee Chair has never been more vital. As businesses navigate new complexities, the expertise required of these leaders must keep or exceed pace.
Farient Advisors analyzed the board skills matrices of the 50 largest public companies over the last five years. What was gleaned, writes Farient Partner Jarret Sues and Manager Devon Furlong, were the essential qualifications today’s Compensation Committee Chairs need to excel in their roles and ensure executive compensation programs are motivating, fair, and defensible.
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Influencing Success: How Board Members Make a Difference
In our continuing series of one-on-one interviews with influential businesspeople in corporate governance, Farient UK Partner Simon Patterson recently caught up with Stuart Sinclair. In his executive career, Stuart has held management roles in banking, consulting, and insurance in the UK and internationally.
He is the former CEO of Tesco Bank, CEO of GE Capital’s consumer business in the UK and China, and director of UK retail banking at RBS. He recently became chair of Vida Bank, one of the UK’s new “challenger” banks. Stuart has been on and chaired several Remuneration Committees, and some 16 boards as a Non-Executive Director.
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In the News
First American’s CEO Exit Underscores Need for Succession Readiness—Fortune
In the wake of First American Financial’s termination of CEO Kenneth DeGiorgio following his arrest for assault, Fortune explored the broader governance and compensation implications of the case. How boards navigate reputational risk, contractual obligations, and leadership transitions in unexpected scenarios is explored.
Farient Advisors’ Chief Data Officer Eric Hoffmann provided expert insight into the termination package, noting that “cash severance payments are typically a multiple of salary and a multiple of bonus and two times is relatively common.”
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Where to Find Us
NACD Leading Minds of Governance
Atlanta, GA
R.J. Bannister, Farient Partner and Chief Operating Officer
April 30, 2025
London, UK
Stephen Cahill, Farient UK Partner
David Cohen, Farient UK Director
May 1, 2025
Manufacturers Alliance: HR Council Meeting
Cleveland, OH
R.J. Bannister, Farient Partner and Chief Operating Officer
May 7, 2025
For more information, please email us at info@farient.com.
Understanding Climate Incentives
Exclusive: Around the globe, the heat is on to combat climate change while some political regimes denounce the veracity between greenhouse gas emissions and a warming planet. Nevertheless, large corporations are reporting Scope 1, Scope 2, and, increasingly, Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and linking reductions to executive compensation, according to Farient Advisors’ newly published 2025 Global Trends in Stakeholder Incentives: Climate Strategies and Incentives for Corporate Sustainability.
Learn more about how the world’s largest companies are setting and achieving climate goals by linking climate measures to executive incentives by sector and geography.
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