SEC Meetings and Other Events

SEC Roundtable on Executive Compensation Disclosure Requirements

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street NE
Washington, DC 20549

Jun 26, 2025
1:00PM – 5:35PM ET
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street NE
Washington, DC 20549
United States

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The SEC hosted a roundtable on executive compensation disclosure requirements with representatives from public companies and investors as well as other experts in this field.

Agenda and Panelists

Time Description
Noon Doors Open
1-1:30 p.m. Opening Remarks from Chairman Paul Atkins, Commissioner Hester Peirce, Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, and Commissioner Mark Uyeda
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.

Panel 1.  Executive Compensation Decisions: Setting Compensation and Informing Investment and Voting Decisions 

This panel will explore how public companies set compensation for their executive officers, including, who sets compensation, the factors that influence compensation decision-making, and the process by which compensation decisions are made. The panel will also discuss how investors consider executive compensation in making investment and voting decisions.

Moderator: 
Keir Gumbs, Principal and Chief Legal Officer, Edward Jones 

Panelists:
•    Debra Cafaro, Human Resources Committee Chair, PNC
•    Ola Peter Krohn Gjessing, Lead Investment Stewardship Manager, Norges Bank Investment Management
•    Ani Huang, President and CEO, Center on Executive Compensation 
•    Blair Jones, Managing Director, Semler Brossy
•    Michael Lennartz, Executive Vice President, Total Rewards, Mastercard
•    Bob McCormick, Executive Director, Council of Institutional Investors
2:45 - 2:55 p.m. Break
 

Panels 2 and 3.  Executive Compensation Disclosure: How We Got Here and Where We Should Go 


These panels will discuss the evolution of executive compensation disclosure, including the 2006 amendments and the compensation-related rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. The discussion will explore whether the rules have achieved their policy objectives, the challenges in preparing the required disclosure, the types of disclosure that investors find material, and what the disclosure requirements should look like in the future.
2:55 - 4:10 p.m.

Panel 2

Moderator: 
James Cotton, Assistant Corporate Secretary, Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Managing Counsel, United Airlines 

Panelists:
•    Mark Borges, Principal, Compensia
•    Zachary Levine, Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Bank Counsel, Metropolitan Commercial Bank
•    David Lynn, Partner, Goodwin Procter
•    Michael McCauley, Senior Officer, Investment Programs and Governance, State Board of Administration of Florida
•    Brandon Rees, Deputy Director, Corporations and Capital Markets, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations 
•    Roland Schustereder, Global Head of Total Rewards, ExxonMobil
4:10 - 4:20 p.m.  Break
4:20 - 5:35 p.m.

Panel 3

Moderator: 
Ning Chiu, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell  

Panelists:
•    Terry Adamson, Partner, Infinite Equity
•    Sarah Fortt, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Ford Motor Company 
•    Drew Hambly, Investment Director, Stewardship, California Public Employees’ Retirement System 
•    Ronald O. Mueller, Partner, Gibson Dunn
•    John Roe, Head of Investment Stewardship in the Americas, BlackRock
•    Marc Treviño, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell

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Last Reviewed or Updated: April 13, 2026