tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84907413536701525252024-02-08T12:38:02.008-08:00Compensation Expert WitnessFred Whittleseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12862808814515434483noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8490741353670152525.post-85151875139619034262014-06-13T17:32:00.002-07:002014-06-13T17:32:40.162-07:00Compensation Litigation in the News - 13 June 2014<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 43px;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-13/former-goldman-trader-sues-to-get-20-million-in-bonuses.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Former Goldman Trader Sues to Get $20 Million in Bonuses</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; line-height: 23px;">Last week litigation over executive and director compensation continued its evolution down the path we have been describing for the last couple years, as the strike suit lawyers filed an “excessive compensation” lawsuit against the officers and directors of Facebook in Delaware Chancery Court,</span><em style="color: #666666; line-height: 23px;"><a class="target-blank " href="http://www.compensationstandards.com/Member/CompLit/Files/06_14_Espinoza.pdf" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3b; outline: 0px;">Espinoza v. Zuckerberg, et al.</a></em><span style="color: #666666; line-height: 23px;"> </span></span><br />
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Fred Whittleseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12862808814515434483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8490741353670152525.post-62095211741977886422012-12-17T22:56:00.002-08:002013-03-09T21:00:42.777-08:00Welcome to the Compensation Expert Witness Blog<b><i><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expert Witness Services<br />
Compensation Venture Group, Inc. <br />
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services for over 25 years. His
globally-recognized expertise in executive compensation, incentive
compensation, equity compensation, and employment agreements has provided
valuable support in a variety of legal cases.
The highly technical and complex nature of executive and equity
compensation has created the need for coaching and educating legal counsel on
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He has issued opinions on the reasonableness of
compensation, loss of earnings, federal and state tax challenges, change-in-control
provisions (golden parachutes), interpretation of employment and compensation
agreements, and opposing experts’ methodologies. He has supported defendants and plaintiffs,
and clients have included corporate entities, classes, individual executives,
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Week, Across the Board, Fortune, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Orange
County Register, Seattle Times, San Jose Mercury News, and San Francisco
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Compensation Venture Group is a consulting firm specializing in
compensation strategy, executive and director compensation, equity-based
compensation, and incentive design with a focus on entrepreneurial growth
companies in technology, telecommunication, life sciences, and other sectors
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">We have proprietary models, tools and methodologies for peer group
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return on investment in compensation programs.
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companies, S corporations, LLCs, and foreign subsidiaries. The firm’s ongoing
consulting work with Boards of Directors and executive teams ensures in-depth
knowledge of current market practices and trends which is critical for
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Venture Group, Inc. (CVG), a Seattle-area consulting firm specializing in
compensation strategy, executive compensation, incentive compensation, and
equity-based compensation. Mr.
Whittlesey is recognized by many corporations, major professional organizations,
universities, media, and colleagues around the world as a leading compensation
expert. His ideas have been presented in
numerous book chapters, journal articles, media interviews, conference and
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published by professional associations and journals and by firms including
KPMG, Buck Consultants, Salary.com, Aon Consulting/Radford Surveys, and Hay
Group. He has authored blogs for the
companies PayScale.com, HR.com, Compensation Standards.com, and hosts the blogs
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Mr. Whittlesey previously was the founder and Principal
Consultant of Compensation and Performance Management, Inc. (CPM). His
compensation consulting experience also includes positions with Towers Perrin,
Mercer, KPMG, Radford (Senior Vice President), Buck Consultants (Principal),
and Hay Group (Senior Principal). His
corporate experience includes roles as the Director of Global Compensation for
Amazon.com and Broadcom Corporation, Chief Compensation Officer for
PayScale.com, and Fellow at Salary.com.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Whittlesey has held positions with a variety of
organizations dedicated to the support of professionals dealing with the design
and operation of executive and employee compensation programs. He is co-founder and past Board of Directors
member of the not-for-profit Global Equity Organization (GEO), a Founding
Member and past Advisory Board member of the National Association of Stock Plan
Professionals (NASPP), past Chair and member of the Advisory Board for the
Certified Equity Professional (CEP) Institute at Santa Clara University, and a
current member of the Executive Compensation Task Force of
CompensationStandards.com and the Technical Advisory Board of Equity Administration
Solutions, Inc. (EASi), an equity plan administration software company.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Whittlesey was a highly-rated faculty member and
certification course developer for WorldatWork’s “Accounting and Finance for HR
Professionals” and both basic and advanced “Executive Compensation” courses,
and delivered instruction in classroom and online for 13 years. He has presented his ideas at compensation
conferences around the world, has presented scores of webcasts for professional
associations and corporations, and is the host of “<i>Keeping Up with Fred Whittlesey</i>,” a podcast sponsored by Global
Equity Organization. He also has been a
guest lecturer at The Anderson School at UCLA, Seattle University, Seattle
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Mr. Whittlesey received his MBA with distinction from The
Anderson School at UCLA and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from
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He earned the Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation
from Santa Clara University, and the Certified Executive Compensation
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Mr. Whittlesey has served as an expert witness/consultant in
numerous legal cases involving reasonableness, and interpretations and/or
calculations relating to executive and equity compensation plans. Over the past seven years, he has been
designated as an expert and/or provided a deposition in the following cases:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kern v. Income research & Management, et al (2013)<br />
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Gonzalez v. Mayhall, Custom Control Concepts (2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Superior Court for the State of Washington in and for the County
of King</div>
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Retained by Dorsey & Whitney for Defendant</div>
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Expert report submitted, no deposition or testimony<o:p></o:p></div>
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Westmoreland Coal Company v. Christopher K. Seglem (2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
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District Court, El Paso County, State of Colorado<o:p></o:p></div>
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Retained by Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP for Plaintiff<o:p></o:p></div>
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Expert report and rebuttals submitted, no deposition or
testimony<br />
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Wallace R. Barr v. Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. (2007)</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">United States District Court - District of New Jersey</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Retained by Blank Rome LLP for Plaintiff</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Expert report submitted, no deposition or testimony</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">PJC Technologies, Inc. vs. Peter J. Casson
(2006)</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">United States District Court – Central District of California</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Retained by Waldron & Olson for Defendant</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">No report issued</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Miguel Jara Sr. v. Suprema Meats, Inc., et
al (2006)</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Superior Court of the State of California, County of Alameda</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Retained by Law Offices of Steven J. Hassing for Defendant</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Expert report submitted, no deposition or testimony</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Robert Cockrell vs. Ambry Genetics, Inc. (2005)</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Orange County Superior Court</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Retained by Waldron & Olson for Defendant</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Deposition given</span></div>
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