Farient Responds in Advance of SEC Roundtable | Farient Briefings
June 25, 2025
Farient Responds in Advance of SEC Roundtable
A comment letter signed by Farient Advisors Founder and CEO Robin A. Ferracone, Partner Marc Hodak, and Chief Sustainability Lead Brian Bueno was emailed to the Securities and Exchange Commission last week in advance of the Roundtable on Executive Compensation being convened this week by SEC Chair Paul Atkins.
Culture Over Cash
The long-time head of total reward at Unilever, Peter Newhouse, shares insights into the world of remuneration and his newest venture—building a community of the remuneration and rewards cognoscenti. The interview is the latest installment in a series of one-on-one chats conducted by Farient Partner Simon Patterson.
In the News
How Much Should Elon Musk Get Paid?—The Wall Street Journal
A newly published Wall Street Journal story explores the options open to the Tesla board as it considers how the world’s richest man should be compensated. Farient Advisors Founder and CEO Robin A. Ferracone offers a clear perspective:
“You’re paying the person to do an executive job, and you have to separate that from what kind of equity stake they have. If he wants a bigger stake in the company, go buy it.”
Ferracone also highlights investor-friendly alternatives such as matching share purchases through a co-investment structure, while reinforcing that compensation committees more broadly should apply the same rigorous process to awarding founder-CEOs as they do for any other executive.
ICYMI
FT Pokes at Corporate Perks Culled from Proxies
The Financial Times published its annual roundup of dubious corporate perks from corporate proxy statements—the kind of story remuneration committees dread in reaction to their carefully crafted CEO pay packages.
On the flip side, the latest jabfest takes aim at companies including American Express, Land’s End, Starbucks, and Salesforce.
As part of his $23.3 million overall pay package, Chewy CEO Sumit Singh received $424,474 for not one but two cars.
The daily notes for its British readers Singh’s “total comp at Chewy (market cap: $18.2bn) comfortably exceeded that of highest-paid FTSE 100 boss Pascal Soriot of AstraZeneca (market cap: £162bn).”
Where to Find Us
Implementing Management Incentive Plans
OP Academy
New York
August 7, 2025
Farient Partner Marc Hodak will lead this half-day in-person training for private-equity operating professionals.
NACD Leading Minds of Governance
Boston, MA
September 17, 2025
Directors & Boards
Compensation and Talent
Virtual
September 25, 2025
NACD Directors Summit 2025
National Harbor, Maryland
October 12-15, 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.
About Farient Advisors
Farient Advisors LLC is an independent premier executive compensation, performance, and corporate governance consultancy. Farient provides a full array of services, linking business strategy to compensation through a tailored, analytically rigorous, and collaborative approach. Farient has locations in Los Angeles, New York, and London and works with clients globally through its partnership in the Global Governance and Executive Compensation (GECN) Group. Farient is a certified diverse company and is recognized by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council.
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