Lynn Joy
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.