Executive Compensation Expert Witnesses

What is an executive compensation expert witness?

Executive compensation expert witness candidates typically have backgrounds in forensic accounting, business valuation, human resources, and/or economic damages. Executive compensation expert witnesses have in-depth industry experience and can successfully use data to evaluate contracts, compensation plans, and benefit packages to determine reasonable compensation.

What types of cases require an executive compensation expert witness?

Executive compensation expert witnesses may provide support for cases involving executive salaries, incentives, and pay bonuses. In addition, executive compensation experts may opine on issues related to commission disputes, lost earnings and benefits, severance packages, and lost wages. Cases may be civil or criminal and require not only expertise but the ability to communicate findings for ease of understanding.

Executive compensation expert witness case examples

Cahn Litigation Services has placed professionals for many matters involving executive compensation, including:

• business valuation,
• nonprofit board of directors,
• financial abuse allegations,
• healthcare executive’s base salary and incentive plan,
• long-term incentive compensation employment agreements,
• breach of fiduciary duty,
• retirement plans,
• employee benefits,
• shareholder disputes,
• Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
• executive searches,
• reasonable compensation,
• golden parachute agreements,
• New York financial services executive’s wrongful termination claim, and
• stock options.

What litigation support work might an executive compensation expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support services by an executive compensation expert could include corporate valuation, contract review/analyses, depositions, research and authoring expert reports, and/or expert witness testimony in the courtroom. Law firms may also seek an executive compensation expert for pre-litigation consulting work.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an executive compensation expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Executive Compensation Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Executive Compensation experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Executive Compensation landscape.

• Expert Witness #251199

  This expert is the principal consultant and expert witness in a successful Executive Compensation consulting firm. This expert provides compensation-related advisory solutions to individuals and corporations. This expert has a world-wide practice and has trained executive compensation consulting staff in Asia and the United States. This expert has an MBA, is designated a Certified Equity Professional and a Certified Executive Compensation Professional. This expert is well-published in the field in both online and hard-copy professional journals. This expert is an experienced expert witness, with many depositions and court appearances.

  
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• Expert Witness #251200

  This expert is the Managing Director of a renowned and successful consulting firm focusing on executive and personal compensation. This expert has specific experience in dealing with Real Estate development executives and with many years of experience, this expert advises senior management on compensation strategies and on compensation issues as they arise. This expert is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences and has authored several published articles. This expert has also made numerous presentations at universities and human resources conferences around the world. This expert is an experienced expert witness in both trials and arbitrations.

  
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• Expert Witness #251184

  This expert is the principal consultant and expert witness in a successful Economics consulting firm. This expert focuses on compensation survey analysis, evaluations of earnings, forensic accounting, and econometric and statically analyses. This expert is also well-versed in business value, lost earnings intellectual property and other related issues related to business and executive compensation. This expert is well-published in the field, and is a seasoned expert witness, with over 90 depositions and court appearances.

  
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• Expert Witness #122789

  This compensation expert has years of experience as a partner at a major professional services firm, with responsibility for compensation consulting and executive recruitment in a regional practice. More recently, this expert has continued compensation consulting and performed expert witness work pertaining to compensation issues.

  In compensation consulting work, this expert has designed numerous compensation plans that required conformance with DOL and IRS regulations and requirements, including those pertaining to exemptions from overtime pay and employee versus independent contractor status. This expert has also addressed similar issues and requirements in expert witness work.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #248543

  This investment banking corporate and transactions expert has over 25 years of experience in senior investment banking transactional leadership, execution, and profit-and-loss responsibility, including extensive work at a number of global investment banks. Executive responsibilities have included recruiting senior professionals, being recruited for senior capital markets positions, serving on compensation committees, and serving as an outside director of a privately held investment bank and broker-dealer for over 10 years. This expert also conducted a securities industry Mergers & Acquisitions practice that led to over 40 advisory assignments.

  This expert has taught investment banking and capitalism courses for decades, is well-published, and authored a securities industry primer on the conduct of underwritten public offerings. This expert has been active in securities industry association and self-regulatory organization affairs, including service on many committees. This expert is an experienced expert witness, having testified over 15 times in over 60 matters in various courts and at FINRA hearings.

  
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• Expert Witness #276161

  This executive compensation expert has over 35 years of experience in senior executive compensation, working with public and private organizations in planning, creating, and implementing incentive programs. Many prior engagements have involved reasonable compensation assessments for executives of closely held businesses with revenues under $100 million. In addition, this expert has served as an independent advisor to the boards of numerous small and mid-sized companies.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant who has authored numerous expert reports for litigation matters and testified in federal and state courts and arbitration proceedings.

  
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• Expert Witness #277593

  This executive recruitment and compensation expert founded and leads an executive search and strategic HR consulting firm.

  This expert is an executive recruiter and strategic HR leadership consultant with over 25 years of executive-level consulting experience involving C-level, VP, and director roles for middle-market and Fortune 500 companies. This expert has personally completed over 195 engagements focused on executive recruiting, executive marketability, executive compensation, management appraisal, and executive assessment.

  This expert has designed executive compensation plans as part of executive search and selection engagements for corporations, including companies with tens of millions to around $100 million in revenue across over 40 industries. This expert has also completed over 195 engagements focused on executive recruiting, management appraisal and assessment, executive compensation, and succession planning. This expert is an AESC Certified Researcher/Associate (CRA) through a professional executive search and leadership consulting association.

  This expert has served as an expert witness in over 5 separate matters and has provided both deposition and trial testimony in state and federal courts.

  
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• Expert Witness #277620

  This executive compensation expert has held senior leadership and co-founder roles at an executive compensation consultancy and has over 25 years of experience in executive compensation and management effectiveness, helping boards develop and implement solutions that produce optimal business results. Prior to advising boards of large public companies, this expert served as a senior HR executive and held roles leading compensation, HR planning and strategy, and management development for several other major companies. This expert also formed a firm helping companies address executive talent strategies, including executive pay and succession, typically in the context of mergers and acquisitions.

  This expert assists boards in translating key strategic initiatives into actionable executive employment arrangements and believes that executive pay and succession decisions should be an extension of the underlying business strategy, not a discrete administrative practice. Areas of expertise include executive compensation practices, governance and compensation vehicles such as equity and profits interests, terms of executive employment and termination protections and features, incentives, and executive total compensation levels, including equity and non-cash benefits.

  This expert has served as an expert witness on executive pay issues, contributed to the national debate on executive compensation as it pertains to disclosure and valuation of executive equity awards, and served as an advisor to a senior federal financial official. This expert has spoken at numerous industry events and forums hosted by professional organizations in banking, quality and productivity, and compensation. This expert holds a BA in Business and a Masters in Labor and Industrial Relations.

  
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• Expert Witness #278653

  This executive compensation expert has advised clients for over 30 years on executive compensation issues at large firms, with over 15 years of experience in designing and implementing executive compensation and other human capital strategy solutions, including change management, total pay design, outsourcing, reengineering, employee communication, and sales force effectiveness.

  This expert's previous experience includes reviewing executive compensation programs for a regional commercial bank at the request of a federal banking regulator, assessing the reasonableness of total executive compensation and executive contracts for a consumer products distribution company, and designing long-term capital accumulation programs involving restricted stock, stock options, non-qualified stock options, and performance units for a charter airline, among other matters.

  This expert is a CPA and has advised boards of varying sizes on change of control agreements, golden parachutes, Section 280G limitations on change in control, and related issues. This expert has served as an expert witness in matters involving executive compensation.

  
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• Expert Witness #283576

  This executive recruitment and search expert is an industrial/organizational psychologist who consults with a variety of organizations on all aspects of human resources. This expert has assisted a wide range of companies across industries with critical human resource issues, including compensation, executive search, strategic planning, testing and measurement, organizational development, management training and development, personnel assessment and selection, performance management, and job analysis. This expert has over 20 years of experience in retained executive search and has held a senior managing role at an international executive search firm before opening an independent firm.

  This expert holds a B.A., summa cum laude, with membership in a prestigious academic honor society; an M.A. in counseling psychology; and a Doctor of Philosophy in industrial and organizational psychology. This expert has served as an executive professor at a university school of management, teaching human resources management in an Executive MBA program, and as an adjunct faculty member teaching a graduate-level course in selection and performance appraisal.

  
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• Expert Witness #296793

  This health claims sampling expert holds a B.Sc. in Accounting, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), holds the FAAMA credential, and serves in senior executive and principal healthcare consulting roles specializing in healthcare finance, Medicare, regulatory compliance, pricing, and managed care and insurance payment and contracting.

  This expert has provided expert witness testimony in court and administrative proceedings and has presented testimony to state healthcare rate-setting authorities, federal oversight bodies, and federal healthcare agencies on issues including healthcare facility rate setting, Tri-Care funding and reimbursement, air ambulance prospective fee schedules, and physician fee schedules for MOHS dermatology surgeons. This expert also served for over 10 years as a national regulatory practice leader at a major professional services firm recognized for healthcare professional services.

  This expert has evaluated claims handling and payment procedures in a prompt-pay dispute involving member hospitals, identifying process improvements intended to expedite processing and reduce denials. In another healthcare compensation dispute involving primary care physician partners and allegations of upcoding, this expert evaluated a statistical sample of claims, identified sampling flaws and coding bias, and provided deposition testimony on those issues.

  This expert has managed installation and maintenance projects for a decision-support claims management system designed to track expected payment of patient claims based on contract terms with payors across dozens of hospitals.

  This expert has analyzed statistical sampling issues in healthcare post-payment audits, including audits using samples over multiyear periods to disallow claims and seek multimillion-dollar recoupments. In one matter, this expert's rebuttal of the statistical sampling methodology supported placing recoupment on hold while the merits of alleged errors were resolved, and the redetermination appeal was successful.

  This expert has also analyzed Medicare time-record audits involving clinical and non-clinical staff records maintained in short time increments. The analysis showed that auditors had effectively examined each time increment within sampled time records, substantially increasing the effective sample size and reducing the calculated error rate to below 1 percent. Based on that analysis, no audit adjustment was appropriate.

  This expert has conducted primary research and survey work in healthcare reimbursement disputes, including surveys of thousands of skilled nursing facilities addressing cost-reporting and reclassification issues. The survey evidence was used in an administrative appeal to address a federal healthcare agency's position on reporting practices.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant whose experience includes thousands of PRRB appeals, including hearings, mediations, telephonic hearings, and on-the-record hearings; hundreds of Administrative Law Judge hearings for workers' compensation appeals; U.S. District Court and appellate court hearings involving civil litigation and government investigations; and criminal investigations involving expert witness testimony and interviews with oversight investigators and U.S. Attorneys.

  
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• Expert Witness #300596

  This economic damages expert holds a PhD and is a labor economist experienced in analyzing levels of executive compensation.

  This expert provides expert witness consulting in labor and employment disputes, litigation and arbitration matters, regulatory audits, and proactive company reviews. This expert has experience preparing statistical analyses and damage calculations involving allegations of employment discrimination related to employer actions such as hiring, promotion, termination, and compensation, as well as executive compensation, breach of employment contract, personal injury and wrongful death, and wage and hour issues.

  This expert frequently presents to professional organizations on economic, financial, and statistical analyses.

  
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