Hi,

I just received permission to offer up to 15 people discounted pricing for this event next week.  You can attend for $70!!!  Look at the agenda and speakers and meet me there (you can pay at the door).

Dan Walter

March 8, 2016 - Santa Clara, CA. 

http://www.nceo.org/main/meeting.php/id/752/

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

Presenters

Tom Bondi

Armanino

Tom is a tax partner with Armanino, serving start-up and early-stage technology and non- tech clients. He specializes in ownership transitions for funding of companies and stock options for the firm, and he assists companies and individuals in managing, implementing, and planning for stock options. In addition to planning for mergers & acquisitions, Tom helps companies through venture capital (VC) or angel financing, as well as term sheet negotiations.

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

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.

Jorge Martin

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

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

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

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™ professional, a certified equity professional (CEP) and one of the select group of UBS Advisors that have earned the wealth advisor designation.

Dan Walter

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

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

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 nonqualified 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.