WHO WE ARE

Perry is a founding Principal and a Senior Attorney with Exequity. Prior to co-founding Exequity in 2006, Perry was a Principal and the Global Practice Leader of Hewitt Associates' Corporate Restructuring and Change practice, which assists organizations prepare and execute all of the people aspects of their merger, acquisition and divestiture strategies.

Perry has led over 200 transactions over the past 10 years. Perry's clients have included General Electric Company, Goldman Sachs, Avaya, Philips Electronics, Public Service Enterprise Group, Honeywell, Wachovia, and Lucent Technologies. Perry advises clients on merger-related issues ranging from M&A process, training, and tool development to due diligence reviews and integration planning and execution. In addition, Perry is a frequent speaker and author on M&A related topics.

Perry earned a B.S. in Economics from Manhattan College, a J.D. (magna cum laude) from New York Law School, and an LL.M. (in Taxation) from New York University School of Law. Perry is a member of the New York and the New Jersey State Bars.

Mike is a founding Principal and Senior Attorney of Exequity. Prior to co-founding Exequity in 2006, Mike was a Principal and Member of Hewitt's Leadership Group. Mike co-managed Hewitt Associates' Executive Compensation Center of Technical Expertise, which has global responsibility for technical areas impacting executive compensation and corporate restructurings.

Mike has worked with hundreds of companies and has extensive experience in all areas of executive and director compensation, including all forms of long-term incentives (i.e., stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, performance units/shares, and phantom stock), executive supplemental retirement and deferral plans and related funding mechanisms, change-in-control and general severance programs, employment contracts, and retention plans.

Mike specializes in technical issues related to executive compensation (e.g., tax, accounting, and securities regulations) and on compensation issues related to corporate restructurings, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, spin-offs, divestitures, and turnarounds/bankruptcies.

Some of the organizations with whom Mike has recently worked include: American Transmission Company, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Duke Energy Corporation, Eastman Chemical Company, John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc., Nalco Holding Company, USG Corporation, and Verizon Communications.

Mike received a J.D. (with honors) from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and holds a B.A. degree in economics from Knox College. Mike is a member of the Illinois Bar.

Ross is a founding Principal and Senior Attorney with Exequity. Prior to co-founding Exequity in 2006, Ross was a Principal and a leader in Hewitt Associates' Executive Compensation Practice and Hewitt's Corporate Restructuring and Change group, as well as a member of Hewitt's Leadership Group. Ross has consulted in the executive compensation and corporate restructuring arenas for 18 years, and before that specialized in tax and securities laws for a major accounting firm and a law firm.

Ross consults on all aspects of executive compensation, including incentive design, establishing appropriate market benchmarks and pay levels for all forms of pay, and all technical issues impacting executive compensation (tax, securities law, and accounting implications). In addition, Ross provides executive compensation-related advisory services to companies undergoing restructuring events, including mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, spin-offs, and similar restructurings.

Some of the clients with whom Ross has recently worked include: Alpharma, CDW, Claire's Stores, Countrywide Financial Corporation, General Electric, Motorola, Philips Electronics, Ryerson, Sapient, Sempra Energy, SUPERVALU, TheStreet.com, and Tyco.

Ross is a frequent speaker, having delivered speeches to WorldatWork, the American Compensation Association, the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, the Conference Board, and the Edison Electric Institute. In addition, Ross has published articles in several professional publications, including the Journal of Compensation and Benefits and Directorship magazine. Ross is frequently quoted on executive compensation and corporate restructuring matters by such publications as CFO magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Directorship magazine, USA Today, HR Magazine, and the London Times.

Ross received a BS in Business Administration from the University of Illinois and a J.D. from the University of Illinois Law School. Ross is a member of the Illinois and Wisconsin State Bars.

Ed is a Senior Attorney of Exequity. Prior to joining Exequity, Ed was a Principal at Buck Consultants where he led Buck's Technical Solutions and Innovation Team, which is responsible for technical matters impacting compensation, e.g., financial accounting, securities, tax, corporate governance, and institutional shareholder issues.

Ed has worked with hundreds of companies and has extensive experience in all areas of executive and director compensation, including equity and cash incentive plans, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) modeling, institutional investor analysis, accounting for equity awards, tax implications of compensation awards and plans, director pay issues, corporate governance issues related to compensation, and proxy disclosure of compensation matters.

Ed's interest in institutional shareholder issues has led him to create numerous tools to use when implementing and evaluating new equity compensation plans, including summaries of the proxy voting guidelines of significant institutional shareholders, a share utilization calculator/projector, and the Flexible Share Authorization that counts full value shares at a higher rate to help increase a plan’s flexibility.

Ed is a frequent speaker at national, regional, local and industry-specific conferences, seminars and meetings, including The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals’' annual conferences and local chapter meetings, the Practising Law Institute’s Preparation of Annual Disclosure Documents yearly seminar, and the American Bar Association's Section on Taxation meetings. Ed also has written numerous articles on executive compensation matters for professional publications, including Workspan, the Journal of Compensation and Benefits, The Corporate Board and the Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal. In addition, Ed is frequently quoted on executive compensation issues by publications such as Fortune, HR Magazine and Business Finance.

Ed received a B.A. from Juniata College, a J.D., cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law, and an LL.M. (Tax), with honors, from IIT-Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ed is an attorney and an active member of the Illinois State Bar and U.S. Tax Court.

Jeff is a Senior Attorney with Exequity and is known industry-wide as a leading advisor to Compensation Committees and Boards of Directors. Jeff is expert in helping clients evaluate, design, implement, and communicate executive compensation and supplemental benefit programs. He has advised some of the most notable companies in the U.S. and Europe.

Jeff's articles on compensation issues have appeared in several professional publications, including the Journal of Compensation and Benefits, the Journal of International Compensation and Benefits, and The Financial Executive, and he is a contributing author to The Compensation Handbook (McGraw-Hill, Inc.). Some of the companies whose management Jeff has worked with in connection with executive compensation matters include Altria Group Inc. (formerly Philip Morris Companies), Bayer Corporation, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Inc., Campbell Soup Company, Capital One Financial Corporation, Gucci Group, N.V., The Hartford Financial Services Group, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Public Service Enterprise Group, Rohm and Haas Company, Siemens Corporation, Time Warner Inc., and Unilever PLC.

Among the companies whose Compensation Committee Jeff has advised directly are Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Constellation Energy Group, Inc. H.J. Heinz Company, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Hubbell, Inc., McCormick & Company, Inc., The New York Times Company, Olin Corporation, Omnicom Group, Inc., Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), Rayonier Inc., Selective Insurance Group, The Stanley Works, Staples, Inc., Verizon Communications, Wyeth, and Zale Corporation.

Prior to joining Exequity, Jeff was a 25-year Principal at Hewitt Associates, and before that a tax practitioner with a major accounting firm in New York City. Jeff earned a B.A. degree from Wesleyan University, a J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University, and an M.B.A. degree from New York University. Jeff is admitted to the Connecticut State Bar.

Lynn is a Senior Consultant of Exequity LLP and has been consulting with clients on executive compensation for almost 20 years. As a CPA she concentrates on executive pay as it supports business strategy and focuses behavior and approaches her compensation committee advisory role with the rigor of a former auditor. By providing technically sound, creative, and economically responsible advice, she helps clients explore the possibilities before arriving at a solution that makes the most sense for their situation.

Lynn has consulted with hundreds of companies advising Compensation Committees and management. Her clients have ranged from large to mid-sized organizations, publicly traded to privately held, global and U.S.-based businesses, joint ventures, and U.S. subsidiaries of non-U.S.-based companies. A sampling of the organizations with whom Lynn has worked include: AutoNation, Borg Warner Security, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chico's FAS, CITGO, CompUSA, Curtiss-Wright, Deere & Co, Enesco, Genworth Financial, Jones Lang LaSalle, The Limited, Mack Trucks, Mellon Financial, Reuters, Saks, Toronto Dominion Bank, Urban Retail and Whirlpool.

Prior to joining Exequity, Lynn was a practice leader for executive compensation consulting at Buck Consultants. Prior to Buck, Lynn was a partner at Hay Group and served on the leadership team for the firm's global executive compensation practice center. She started consulting in executive compensation with Hewitt Associates where she worked for many years, and prior to that, was an auditor/CPA with Arthur Andersen. Lynn holds a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She speaks frequently on executive pay and related topics to industry and human resources groups and associations including WorldatWork, NASPP and GEO and is a member of the WorldatWork faculty.

Mark is a Senior Advisor and West Region Leader of Exequity. Mark has consulted on organizational change and human capital issues for over 17 years. Prior to joining Exequity, he served in a wide variety of leadership roles at Hewitt Associates including Global Change Management Practice Leader, Outsourcing Business Strategy Leader, and Corporate Restructuring and Change Operations Leader.

Mark consults on all aspects of organizational change and human capital issues with a particular expertise in large-scale transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs. He has also led large-scale change from a business operations perspective—he co-led the overall integration effort for an enterprise-wide $700M acquisition.

Some of the organizations Mark has advised include: BHP Minerals, Boeing, Boise Cascade, Coors Brewing Company, Countrywide Financial, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Nextel, Nokia, Inc., OfficeMax, Philips Electronics, Sprint, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines, Viad Corporation, VNU, Wachovia, and Wal-Mart.

Mark is a frequent speaker, having delivered speeches to the Conference Board, WorldatWork, HRO World and other conferences. In addition, Mark has published articles in several publications, Corporate Board Journal, HR Planning and HR Executive.

Mark received a BA in Economics from UC Irvine and an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

Bob is a Senior Executive Compensation Advisor with Exequity. Bob joined Exequity in October 2008 with nearly 15 years executive compensation experience. Most recently, he was the Director, Executive Compensation at Time Warner, Inc. Prior to that, Bob spent more than 11 years consulting in executive compensation, including three years at a globally-recognized executive compensation consulting boutique followed by eight years at a major worldwide HR consulting firm.

Bob consults on all aspects of executive and director compensation, including annual and long-term incentive plan design, establishing appropriate market benchmarks and pay levels for all forms of pay, and key technical issues impacting executive and director compensation, including tax and accounting implications. Bob's clients have included management and boards of directors for a broad array of companies, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to much smaller organizations. These clients have included both public and private organizations from a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, high-tech, telecommunications, energy, retail and manufacturing.

Bob received a B.S. in Economics (with concentrations in Finance and Legal Studies) from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

Tim is the Vice President of Sales for Exequity. Prior to joining Exequity, Tim was with a large global consulting firm for over 24 years, in a variety of senior Client Management and Sales roles, including senior management responsibility for that firm's entire client portfolio in the east region. Tim also served in various global leadership roles for the Client Management practice and as the Connecticut location leader for over 550 associates.

Tim has served as a client manager for a number of Fortune 25 companies. With these organizations, he provided management oversight, direct client leadership and direct consulting support. His expertise includes a broad range of human resource, compensation and benefits issues.

Tim received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and an Enrolled Actuary (retired).