Board of Directors and Executive Compensation Services

Given the recent spotlight on Executive Compensation and the passage of numerous directives regarding Executive Compensation, it is important that companies have a defined compensation strategy for their Executive Management teams and for their Board of Directors.

EW has worked with many companies to define the Charter of the Compensation Committee of the Board, to market price a competitive compensation package for Directors, and to ensure that appropriate results oriented to market based bonus opportunities exist for the management team.

Listed below are some of the services EW provides to Directors and Executive teams:

• Board of Director market-based compensation studies
• Board of Directors Handbooks regarding roles, responsibilities and ethics
• Executive compensation market pricing services
• Design and development of Executive compensation incentive plans
• Serve as a neutral outside compensation expert to the Compensation Committee Board Chair
• Stock Option plan design and 5 year Stock Option strategies
• Executive retention programs and the design of supplemental deferred compensation strategies