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Eric Hosken

Partner
Compensation Advisory Partners
Eric Hosken is a partner of Compensation Advisory Partners LLC (CAP) in New York. He has more than 20 years of executive compensation consulting experience working with senior management and Compensation Committees. Eric’s areas of focus include compensation strategy development, evaluating the pay and performance relationship for senior executives, annual and long-term incentive plan design, performance measure selection and board of director compensation. A key objective in his executive compensation work is designing executive compensation programs to support the achievement of business strategy and to align with shareholder value creation. Eric has experience with large publicly-traded companies, as well as privately-held and smaller public companies across a wide array of industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, professional services, retail and telecommunications. He has assisted companies in developing compensation programs to address special situations, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, and IPOs. Eric was named to the National Association of Corporate Director’s Directorship 100 for his contribution and influence in boardrooms. Eric is a frequent speaker on the topic of executive compensation and teaches the subject for WorldatWork. He has also written extensively on the topic of executive compensation and performance measurement issues. He is the lead author of CAP’s “A Practical Guide to Compensation Committee Service: Lessons from the Field. Before joining CAP, Eric was a principal at Korn/Ferry International specializing in executive compensation consulting. Prior to that, he worked at Mercer in New York and SCA Consulting in its Dallas and New York offices. Eric has a Master of Science in Labor Economics from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors from Oberlin College.

SESSIONS

Group Discussion: The Changing Nature of Board Service and Board Pay Speaker

If board members are expected to give even more time to their board service, can serving CEOs realistically be allowed to serve on outside boards?  And where will new board members come from—a class of professional directors?  And finally, are board members being compensated fairly for the time now required to fulfill their roles?

Group Discussion: Compensation and Character: Human Capital and Executive Pay Speaker

Should the Compensation Committee morph into a Human Resources Committee?  Are compensation metrics meaningful enough to capture stakeholder priorities?  Will investors tolerate large pay packages along with layoffs and pay Cuts for employees?