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Contact the Governance Center for Briefing

A staff member of The Conference Board is ready to meet with your board or management to discuss the endorsement process for The Conference Board Task Force on Executive Compensation Guiding Principles.

The Conference Board is ready to provide a 45-minute live or Web-based presentation. To set up your personal briefing, contact Paul DeNicola, director, The Conference Board Governance Center at paul.denicola@conference-board.org or (212) 339-0221.

Convened earlier this year by The Conference Board Governance Center, the Task Force and its Advisory Group are comprised of corporate directors, shareholders, academics, and experts in compensation, governance and law. The full set of guiding principles and recommendations for compensation practices is outlined in the report: The Conference Board Task Force on Executive Compensation.

The Guiding Principles state that public companies should:

Establish a clear link between pay, strategy and performance;
Provide compensation that is fair, affordable and clearly aligned with actual performance;
Eliminate controversial compensation practices that conflict with the notions of fairness and pay for performance – such as excessive golden parachutes, overly generous severance arrangements, gross-ups of parachute payments or perquisites, and golden coffins – unless specific justification exists;
Demonstrate credible board oversight of executive compensation; and
Foster transparency with respect to compensation practices and appropriate dialogue between boards and shareholders.

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