Don't Miss This Meeting! NCEO - Equity Compensation for Companies Staying Privately Owned: Plan Design, Liquidity, and Compliance

IN-PERSON MEETING

Equity Compensation for Companies Staying Privately Owned: Plan Design, Liquidity, and Compliance

March 8, 2016 :: Santa Clara, California

FROM OUR MEETING SERIES EQUITY COMPENSATION SEMINARS

Equity Compensation for Companies Staying Privately Owned: Plan Design, Liquidity, and Compliance

About This Meeting:
For years, the standard thinking has been that companies will want to go public or, much more likely, be sold to an eager buyer, within a few to several years of starting. But more and more companies want to stay private for many years or even indefinitely. But how can these companies get liquidity for their employees and investors and stay private? This meeting will focus on practical solutions, such as redeeming shares, internal markets, secondary markets, and sales to an employee stock ownership plan. It will also explore best practices in plan design, administration, and communications in entrepreneurial companies.

Program
March 8, 2016

9:00 AM Welcome
Corey Rosen,NCEO and Dee Crosby,Certified Equity Professional Institute

9:30 AM What Kind of Equity Should You Share? Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock, Phantom Units, Profits Interests or Something Else?
Steven W. Fackler, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

10:15 AM Liquidity Options and Secondary Markets
Carine Schneider, Nasdaq Private Market

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM Mergers and Acquisitions
Alison Wright, Hanson Bridgett LLP

12:00 PM Key Lessons from Entrepreneurs Who Stay Private Successfully For a Generation or More
Dave Whorton, Tugboat Group

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Best Practices in Equity Plan Design
Dan Walter, Performensation

2:15 PM The ESOP Option for Liquidity
Corey Rosen, NCEO

2:45 PM Keeping Your Employees Informed: What You Need to Tell Employees, What You Should Tell Them, and How to Communicate It Well
Emily VanHoorickx, UBS

3:30 PM Break

3:45 PM Administering Your Plan: Recordkeeping, Accounting,and Reporting
Jorge Martin, Certent

4:30 PM Adjourn
Presenters
Dee Crosby
Certified Equity Professional Institute
Dee is currently the senior director of certificates and certification in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. As one of her primary responsibilities in this role, Dee leads the Certified Equity Professional Institute (CEPI). She is responsible for the marketing and development of the CEP program, annual CEP Symposium, and the research efforts of the CEPI. Dee coordinates an extensive volunteer base of subject matter experts in defining course curriculum, test development and standard setting, to ensure that the CEP program meets rigorous certification standards. Dee joined the CEPI in 2004 as the program manager, and has been instrumental in making the CEP Symposium a premier industry event. In addition to the CEPI, she is responsible for the Certificate of Advanced Accounting Proficiency (CAAP) Program. Dee is a frequent speaker at industry events including the Annual NASPP Conference, NECF and local NASPP and GEO chapter events.

Stephen W. Fackler
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Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher LLP
Stephen is co-chair of Gibson Dunn's executive compensation and employee benefits group located in Palo Alto, CA. He advises public and private companies, private equity funds and boards of directors on a wide range of compensation and benefits matters. He also regularly advises senior executives and management teams on employment, stock ownership and severance issues. He is regularly recognized as among the most accomplished attorneys in the nation in his field. Stephen received his law degree from Stanford. He earned an honours B.A. from St. Johns' College, Oxford. He completed his undergraduate education at Harvard where he graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

orge Martin
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Certent, Inc.
Jorge is senior vice president of services and support at Certent. He has more than 18 years of experience in professional services, implementation, product management, marketing, relationship management, and sales. Prior to joining Certent, Jorge was the vice president of shared services for E*TRADE Corporate Services, where he led the teams responsible for development, roll out and support of equity compensation solutions. He was also the vice president of relationship management and was responsible for the retention, satisfaction, and sales efforts for all clients of the corporate services group. Prior to E*TRADE, Jorge worked at Avolent as the director of strategic alliances, for Netscape as group product marketing manager, and at DST Output as a product manager..

Corey Rosen
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National Center for Employee Ownership
Corey is the cofounder and senior staff member of the National Center for Employee Ownership. He co-authored Equity: Why Employee Ownership Is Good for Business. Over the years, he has written, edited, or contributed to dozens of books, articles, and research papers on employee ownership. He is generally regarded as the leading expert on employee ownership in the world. He was named an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in 1975. He worked on Capitol Hill for five years, where he helped initiate and draft legislation on ESOPs and employee ownership.
Carine Schneider
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Nasdaq Private Market
Carine is president of equity management solutions, Nasdaq Private Market(NPM), and works with companies to optimize their employee share plan services. Carine has been the CEO of EASi and Global Shares, a Partner with PwC and held senior positions with Morgan Stanley, Towers Watson, and Oracle. Carine co-founded the Global Equity Organization (www.globalequity.org) and serves as the chairperson. She has been the chair of the Santa Clara University CEP advisory board and is the founder and president of the American Coalition of Stock Plan Administrators and was executive director of the NASPP.

Emily Van Hoorickx
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UBS
Emily is the managing director of wealth management at UBS. With 30 years of experience in the industry, Emily's principal focus is corporate services: working with corporations who wish to enhance the delivery of employee benefit plans. She specializes in custom benefit programs such as 10b5-1 trading plans, executive financial planning engagements, company-sponsored college education programs, deferred compensation, share buy backs/plan strategies, hedging, lending and more. She is a certified financial planner^TM professional, a certified equity professional (CEP) and one of the select group of UBS Advisors that have earned the wealth advisor designation.

Dan Walter
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Performensation
Dan Walter, CEP, is the president and CEO of Performensation. Dan has assisted companies for more than 20 years with both executive and broad-based compensation programs. Dan's expertise includes equity compensation, executive programs, performance-based pay and talent management issues. His experience with these programs includes: diagnosis, design, communication, administration and reporting. Dan's career has also included creating software solutions, administrative and technological best practices for these programs. Dan does dozens of presentations a year, combining humor and technical expertise into accessible and practical information.
Dave Wharton
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The Tugboat Group
Dave is an entrepreneur, business leader, education reformer, curator and investor. At the age of sixteen, Dave began working at Hewlett Packard and was inspired to create companies with similar success and values. He later would start four companies including Tugboat, and worked at Bain, KPCB and TPG, learning about VC and PE investments from some of the best. A small angel investment prior to Tugboat eventually opened his eyes to seasoned entrepreneurs who wanted to build large, profitable, private, innovative businesses that would never sell or IPO-what he coined Evergreens. Dave enjoys spending time between Silicon Valley and mindful Sun Valley.

Alison Wright
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Hanson Bridgett LLP
Alison is a partner in the San Francisco office of Hanson Bridgett LLP. Alison's practice focuses on the tax, securities, and ERISA aspects of executive and equity compensation (including non-qualified deferred compensation plans, stock compensation plans, and ESOPs). It also includes traditional employee benefit plans-401(k) and other retirement plans-health and welfare plans, and cafeteria plans.
Meeting Site
The meeting will be held held at Santa Clara University in the Benson Memorial Center, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053. For hotel reservations we suggest using an online travel site.
Registration
All meeting registrations must be prepaid.

NCEO members: $95.00 per person through February 22 and $130.00 thereafter. (If you are not an NCEO member but join when you register, you will receive the member price.)

Nonmembers: $120.00 per person through February 22 and $155.00 thereafter.

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Continuing Education Credit
CPE Credit
The National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.

This program is a "group-live" offering and provides 7.00 hours of CPE credit for accountants in the area of "specialized knowledge and applications." The material is basic level. No prerequisites or advanced preparation is needed. For more information regarding administrative policies such as complaint and refund, please contact the NCEO at 510-208-1300.

CEP Credit for Certified Equity Professionals
This program has been approved for 6.00 hours toward the ongoing education requirements of the Certified Equity Professional Institute at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. For more information about certification and continuing education, please visit the CEPI home page at http://www.scu.edu/business/cepi/.
SHRM Credit
This program is valid for 1 PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM

Cancellation Policy
A full refund will be issued, less a $35 administrative fee, if the request is received by the close of business on February 8, 2016. Cancellations made after that date and before our guarantee date of March 1, 2016, will be eligible for credit toward another program, minus a $35 administrative fee. Those canceling on or after the guarantee date will not receive a paper credit or a refund.