August 16, 2011
Stock Compensation and Wine Tastings
Last Wednesday, was a beautiful day in Livermore, CA. I know because I was there to attend the San Francisco NASPP Chapter All-Day Conference at Wente Winery. For today’s blog entry, I feature highlights of the day. (Click the images below to see the full-size pictures.)
The All-Day Conference is held at the lovely Wente Winery.
Wente Winery is nestled in the hills in Livermore, making this a very special event.
This is the only conference I have ever attended that features an open-air exhibit hall.
Inta Abele of Schwab, Michael Kahn of PG&E, and Suzie Bentley of Nvidia presented the morning general session on educating employees on stock compensation.
Paz Dizon of Tesla Motors listens intently to Takis Makridis of Equity Methods.
Sinead Kelly and Barbara Klementz of Baker & McKenzie presented on “Global ESPP and Its Dirty Little Secrets,” along with Wendy Jennings of Riverbed (who quite possibly administers the world’s most compliant ESPP).
Lunch for the event was out on the lawn, under cloudless blue skies.
Stephen Buckhout of Synopsys talks with Don Drybough of Solium at the Solium booth (that’s Mark Shimomura and Pam Ellis of Solium in the background).
Zachary Crumption of E*TRADE and Valerie Diamond of Baker & McKenzie presented the closing general session on “Top 20 Ways Global Equity Awards are Quirkier Than You Thought.”
Karen Hertz and Joe Fiorita are ready to answer your questions at the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney booth.
As the grand prize raffle winner, Louise Carbone of Cadence Design Systems went home with a brand new iPad–that’s worth the price of registration!
The day concluded with a private wine tasting in the winery’s caves.
The San Francisco chapter board: Donna Spinola, vice president; Wendy Jennings, director, Paz Dizon, program committee; Ingrid Freire, program committee; Joe Thatcher, president; Barbara Klementz, secretary; Jeff Graham, director; and Christine Zwerling, treasurer. Not pictured: Lauren Downes and Sara Spengler, both on the program committee.
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 I keep an ongoing “to do” list for you here in my blog.
- Register for 19th Annual NASPP Conference (November 1-4 in San Francisco).
- Check out the NASPP’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
- Complete the NASPP’s newest online course, “Financial Reporting for Equity Compensation.”
- Complete the Compliance-O-Meter quiz on Insider Trading Compliance Policies.
- Take the “Question of the Week” challenge.
- Renew your NASPP membership for 2011 (if you aren’t an NASPP member, join today).
- Don’t miss your local NASPP chapter meetings in Houston, Ohio, and Seattle.
- – Barbara