The Boston and Connecticut chapters recently hosted their 6th annual regional conference.  I wasn’t there, but Jen Baehr, the NASPP’s Programs Director was and she had her camera, so for today’s blog, I have a few pictures of the event.

In the six years that the chapters have hosted the event, it has grown considerably in popularity.  You can see by this pic that attendance was close to standing room only this year! I’m not saying that people were scalping tickets outside, but there are practically more empty seats at a Red Sox game.

Local chapter events like this are a great opportunity to meet and catch up with other stock plan professionals in your area. Here attendees mingle between sessions.

Kudos to both chapter boards for hosting a great event. In this pic we have Mike Albert of Fidelity and president of the Boston chapter with Boston chapter board members Nancy Kennedy of Boston Scientific, Laurie McCarthy of Sensata Technologies, and Brian Schulz of Morgan Stanley.

And the CT chapter board: Joe Purdy of Solium and president of the CT chapter with CT chapter officers Susan Dixon of Finn Dixon & Herling, Heather Royce of The Priceline Group, Don Gillotti of EASI, Jen Baehr of the NASPP, and Edi Abbott of Equitycomp Associates.

Tami Bohm of Radian (and NASPP Regional Representative for the Eastern chapters) catches up with Bruce Brumberg of myStockOptions.com and Jen Tardif of Solium.

A big thank-you to the sponsors, who made it possible for the chapters to offer this event at no charge to attendees.

See more pics of the Boston/Connecticut Chapters Regional Conference on the NASPP’s Facebook page. While your there, you can also check out the pics from last week’s San Francisco Chapter Not Quite Half-Day Meeting.

– Barbara

This week, the DC/VA/MD chapter hosts a meeting featuring Greg Kopp and Marty Somelofske of Hay Group presenting the results of the Wall Street Journal/Hay Group CEO Compensation Study.  A cocktail reception will follow the meeting.  (Wednesday, July 30, 5:00 PM)

The Boston and Connecticut NASPP chapters will host their 6th Annual Regional Conference next Monday, July 14.  The full day of learning and networking includes 8 topics in 5 sessions. The panel topics are:

• Crowd-Sourcing with Long-Term Incentive Plans
• Lights, Camera, Action! Viral Videos in Stock Compensation
• Everything We Do In Compensation Is Communications
• “What’s Next. . . the Latest in Tax Reform?”
• Global Equity Compliance and Best Practices
• Perfecting Period Close
• What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Top Ten Tips to Make the Most of Your “Downtime”
• Hiring and Firing Executives: Equity Compensation Issues
• Pay Ratio: Exploring Some “Other Statistical Methods”

View the full schedule and session descriptions and register today!

This is always a great event: check out the pics from last year.

The Connecticut chapter hosts a chapter meeting at Two Roads Brewing Company.  The meeting will start with a presentation by Gary Scrofani and Marsha Tepper of CompIntelligence on “Manual Manipulation Madness,” which will be followed by a tour of the brewery and beer tasting.  (Tuesday, July 1, 3:00 PM)

Here’s what’s happening at your local NASPP chapter this week:

Boston: Michael Andresino of Posternak Blakenstein & Lund, Christine Cognetti and Richard Fischer of Morgan Stanley present “Rules 10b5-1 and 144 and Section 16 – Issues, Trends and Best Practices.” (Wednesday, June 25, 4:00 PM)

Chicago: Mike Melbinger of Winston & Strawn presents “Ethical Issues in the Executive Compensation Area, Including the “Independent Counsel” Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.” (Wednesday, June 25, 7:30 AM)

Los Angeles: Mark Chen and Dan Mumenthaler of Towers Watson present “Crosscurrents Reshaping Executive Pay and Equity Compensation.” (Wednesday, June 25, 11:30 AM)

San Diego: Roger Gilbert of EASi presents “The Treatment of Equity Awards Upon Termination.” (Thursday, June 26, 11:30 AM)

Las Vegas: Michael Oclaray and Carl Schmitt of Towers Watson present “Crosscurrents Reshaping Executive Pay and Equity Compensation.” (Wednesday, June 27, 11:30 AM)

In a rare Friday entry to the NASPP Blog, I offer a few scenes from this week’s Silicon Valley NASPP Chapter All-Day Conference. Kudos to Inta Abele, the chapter president, and the rest of the chapter board for hosting a great event.

Dee Crosby of the CEP Institute, Valerie Diamond of Baker & McKenzie, and Andrea Kagan of KPMG presented the afternoon keynote, “The Boomers are Coming! The Boomers are Coming!”  After their presentation, they happily took questions from audience members. Seriously–look how happy Dee is!

Attendees listen intently to the keynote presentation.

Thanks to all of the event sponsors for supporting the chapter and helping it put together such a great event. Many of these companies sponsor this event for the chapter every year.

Megan Buckley of Ruckus Wireless, Loretta Gardner Miller of Castlight Health, Joan Matlack of Matlack Consulting, and Anamika Mandal of ETRADE. Often when I go through photos from an NASPP event, I realize that in every photo, everyone is from the same company. That was not the case today; this was a very gregarious group and everyone took full advantage of the opportunity to catch up with colleagues and friends in the industry.

Stock & Option Solutions always has great tchotchkes (yes, that is how you spell that word) at their booth.  This year they again had the boogie bot (in black–collect all three colors!) as well as a number of other nifty trinkets.

The hotel had a jail cell set up in the lobby, presumably in case any of the event attendees got out of hand, not that this would ever happen at an NASPP event. (Actually the cell was part of an exhibit on Alcatraz.)

Takis Makridis of Equity Methods and Dave Thomas of Wilson Sonsini presented “Pulling Levers to Maximize Value in a Compensation Plan Design.”  They had the most colorful slides.

The day concluded with the traditional cocktail reception.  Here attendees mingle at the reception while waiting for raffle winners to be announced.

The chapter president, Inta Able of Schwab, and vice president, Sorrell Johnson of NetApp, announce a raffle winner.  Kudos the Inta, Sorrell, and all of the chapter officers for hosting a great event again this year.

See more pics of the event on the NASPP’s Facebook page.

– Barbara