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Summary
This Global Compensation and Total Rewards Expert has 20+ years of experience designing and implementing executive compensation programs, including phantom stock, RSUs, stock options, and custom long-term incentive plans for both private equity–backed and publicly traded companies. She has partnered with CEOs, Boards, and Compensation Committees to deliver equity and incentive strategies that balance retention, competitiveness, and shareholder value particularly during PE exits, IPO readiness, and M&A integrations.
This Global Compensation and Total Rewards Experts background spans large enterprises and high-growth companies, including manufacturing, distribution, SaaS, financial services, healthcare, and retail, giving her the versatility to design compensation frameworks that align across diverse business models. She has led job architecture transformations across 55+ countries and 20,000+ employees, ensuring global consistency while enabling local flexibility.
Known for her financial rigor, this Global Compensation and Total Rewards Expert has owned bonus accruals, cost modeling, and forecasting for executive compensation plans, while also preparing scenario modeling to demonstrate plan impact at varying valuations. She pairs this with expertise in crafting executive communication packages from board decks to leader FAQs that drive clarity and alignment.
With a proven track record of building equity and incentive programs that fuel growth, retention, and enterprise value, she is recognized as a trusted advisor to leadership teams navigating critical transformation and growth stages.
Highlights
- Global Compensation Strategy & Compliance
- Equity Programs for PE or Public Companies
- Pay Equity, and Global Compliance
- Performance Management
- Shared Services & Employee Relations
- M&A
- Benefits & Retirement
- Executive Compensation Design
- Sales Compensation Strategy, Design & Administration
- Performance Management
- Measurable Organizational Impact
- Modern Technologies (HRIS)
- Board & Leadership Advisory
Relevant Accomplishments
- Executive & Equity Program Design: Built and implemented phantom stock plans, RSUs, stock options, and executive bonus structures for PE-backed and publicly traded companies, directly aligning leadership retention with shareholder value and exit readiness.
- Financial Rigor & Modeling: Owned bonus accruals, cost forecasting, and executive compensation payments across multiple organizations. Designed scenario models showing plan outcomes under different company valuations ($60M, $80M, $100M+), enabling CEOs and Boards to make informed decisions.
- Board & Leadership Partner: Regularly prepared and presented compensation strategies to Boards and Compensation Committees, securing approval for expanded LTI pools, retention plans, and governance frameworks. Recognized as a trusted advisor to CEOs and Presidents in building sales plans, incentive structures, and go-to-market strategies.
- Industry Breadth: Designed and harmonized executive and employee compensation programs across manufacturing, distribution, SaaS, financial services, healthcare, and retail, tailoring approaches to fit both large-scale enterprises and smaller growth-stage companies.
- Global Job Architecture: Led job architecture frameworks across 55+ countries and 20,000+ employees, standardizing pay grades, titles, and career paths while reducing title sprawl by 71% and achieving 95% manager adoption over the timeframe of the project.
- Revenue Impact via Sales Compensation: Designed sales compensation programs and GTM incentive structures that drove $85M+ in new organic revenue in year one, followed by $95M in year two.
- Technology Execution: Delivered Workday HRIS in just 4 months, streamlining bonus, merit, and promotion cycles and reducing payroll errors to zero.
- M&A and Exit Readiness: Developed and integrated executive and employee compensation structures during acquisitions and prepared organizations for IPO and PE exits, ensuring compliance with SEC, 409A, 280G, EU Pay Transparency, and other global regulations.
- Executive Communication Packages: Designed board decks, leader talking points, and executive FAQs to clearly communicate equity and incentive programs, ensuring alignment and retention during times of change.
Roles
- Independent Consultant / Interim VP, Total Rewards – SaaS, PE-backed, Retail, Financial Services
- VP, Global Total Rewards & Operations – Modivcare
- VP, Global Total Rewards, Operations & Performance – Vertex
- VP, People & Culture, Total Rewards & Operations – MetaBank
- Director, Global Compensation – Avnet
- VP, Compensation & Sales Incentive Design – Bank of America Merchant Services
- Senior Manager, Compensation – Arrow Electronics
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