Weinberg Center to host panel of experts on executive compensation

11:18 a.m., April 27, 2012--Citigroup's shareholders recently rejected its executive compensation program, and executive compensation continues to be a hot topic at the national level. 

Top academics, executives, judges, lawyers and governance experts will gather to discuss the topic on Tuesday, May 8, in a panel discussion presented by the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance in UD's Lerner College of Business and Economics. 

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The panel, entitled "Punting Peer Groups: Resolving the Compensation Conundrum," will be held from 9:30-11:30 a.m., May 8, in Room 125 of Lerner Hall. The program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.  To register, contact Alba Bates at batesa@udel.edu.

Participating will be Kenneth Bertsch, chairman and CEO, Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals; William Chandler, partner with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and former chancellor of the Court of Chancery; Michael Davis, senior vice president, global human resources, General Mills; Bonnie Hill, co-founder of Icon BLUE and director, California Water Service Group, AK Steel Holding Corp., Home Depot Inc. and Yum Brands Inc.; Sam Glasscock III, vice chancellor of the Court of Chancery; Ira Kay, managing partner, Pay Governance; Thomas L. Kelly, general partner, CHB Capital Partners and director, Ensco, PLC; Aeisha Mastagni, Investment Office, CalSTRS; Robert McCormick, chief policy officer, Glass Lewis; Patrick McGurn, special counsel, ISS-MSCI; Robert Rock, chairman and publisher, Directors and Boards, and director Alberto-Culver Co., Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Quaker Chemical Co., Advanta Corp.; David Swinford, president and CEO, Pearl Meyer & Partners Inc.; and Lopa Zielinski, director of corporate governance and senior counsel, TIAA-CREF. 

Moderating the panel will be Charles M. Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance.