April 24, 2012
The Newest NASPP Staff Member
Welcome to the Newest NASPP Staff Member
I’m very excited to announce that Jen Baehr has now joined the NASPP as our Programs Director. Jen has over a decade of experience in stock compensation, most recently at OptionEase and, before that, at Solium Transcentive. I’m sure that many of my readers know Jen from her presentations at past NASPP Conferences and other NASPP programs–Robyn Shutak, the NASPP’s Education Director, and I were pleased to present the “Reporting” webcast with her during our online program, “Financial Reporting for Equity Compensation.”
As Programs Director, Jen will be responsible for a variety of NASPP programs, including:
- The NASPP’s Stock Plan Design and Administration Surveys
- The NASPP Conference RFP and Proposal Assistance Program
- Overseeing the speakers for the NASPP Conference
- The NASPP’s group membership program
Jen started yesterday and has hit the ground running. I hope you will join me in welcoming her to the NASPP.
Global Equity Incentives Survey
I’m also excited to announce that the NASPP has teamed up with PricewaterhouseCoopers to offer the NASPP-PwC 2012 Global Equity Incentives Survey. The joint survey is the industry’s most comprehensive examination of global stock plan design and administration issues and will allow for year over year comparisons of compensation strategy and design, expensing, tax planning and compliance, global coordination, plan administration and employee communications.
Issuers must participate in the survey to receive the full results. NASPP members that have participated in past surveys know just how valuable the results are–easily well worth the cost of NASPP membership. Register to receive your login to the survey today–don’t wait; you only have until May 25 to complete the survey.
NASPP “To Do” List
We have so much going on here at the NASPP that it can be hard to keep track of it all, so we keep an ongoing “to do” list for you here in our blog.
- Register for the NASPP’s newly updated and expanded online program, “Tackling Equity Compensation Issues Related to Mergers & Acquisitions.” Don’t wait, the early-bird rate expires on May 18.
- Register for the NASPP’s newly updated online Stock Plan Fundamentals program–it’s not too late to get into the course; the first two webcasts have been archived for you to listen to at your convenience.
- Register for the 20th Annual NASPP Conference in New Orleans.
- Complete the NASPP-PwC Global Equity Incentives Survey. Issuers must complete the survey by May 25 to receive the full survey results.
- Complete the Compliance-O-Meter quiz on Domestic Tax Withholding Procedures.
- Check out the NASPP’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
- Renew your NASPP membership for 2012 (if you aren’t an NASPP member, join today).
- Don’t miss your local NASPP chapter meetings in Kansas/Missouri, Portland, San Diego, and Silicon Valley. I will be speaking at the Kansas/Missouri meeting–I hope to see you there!
– Barbara