SEC Announces Agenda And Panelists For Roundtable On Executive Compensation Disclosure Requirements

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the agenda and panelists for the June 26, 2025, roundtable on executive compensation.

The roundtable will be held at the SEC’s headquarters at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C., from 1 p.m. – 5:35 p.m. ET. The event will be open to the public and webcast live on the SEC’s website. Doors will open at noon ET.

For in-person attendance, registration is required. The number of in-person participants may be limited and visitors will be subject to security checks.

For online attendance, registration is not necessary. A link to watch the event will be available on June 26 at www.sec.gov, and a recording will be available later on the SEC’s website.

More information, including how to submit feedback on executive compensation disclosure requirements, is available on the SEC Executive Compensation Roundtable’s event page.

Agenda

12 p.m. ET	Doors Open
1 – 1:30 p.m. ET	Opening Remarks from Chairman Paul Atkins, Commissioner Hester Peirce, Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, and Commissioner Mark Uyeda
1:30 – 2:45 p.m. ET	Panel 1. Executive Compensation Decisions: Setting Compensation and Informing Investment and Voting Decisions This panel will explore how public companies set compensation for their executive officers, including, who sets compensation, the factors that influence compensation decision-making, and the process by which compensation decisions are made. The panel will also discuss how investors consider executive compensation in making investment and voting decisions. Moderator: Keir Gumbs – Principal and Chief Legal Officer – Edward Jones Panelists: Debra A. Cafaro – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer – Ventas (and Human Resources Committee Chair – PNC) Ola Peter K. Gjessing – Lead Investment Stewardship Manager – Norges Bank Investment Management Ani Huang – President and CEO – Center On Executive Compensation Blair Jones – Managing Director – Semler Brossy Michael Lennartz – Executive Vice President, Total Rewards – Mastercard Bob McCormick – Executive Director – Council of Institutional Investors
2:45 – 2:55 p.m. ET	Break
	Panels 2 and 3. Executive Compensation Disclosure: How We Got Here and Where We Should Go These panels will discuss the evolution of executive compensation disclosure, including the 2006 amendments and the compensation-related rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. The discussion will explore whether the rules have achieved their policy objectives, the challenges in preparing the required disclosure, the types of disclosure that investors find material, and what the disclosure requirements should look like in the future.
2:55 – 4:10 p.m. ET	Panel 2 Moderator: James Cotton – Assistant Corporate Secretary, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation & ESG Managing Counsel – United Airlines Panelists: Mark A. Borges – Principal – Compensia Zachary Levine – Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Bank Counsel – Metropolitan Commercial Bank David Lynn – Partner – Goodwin Procter Michael McCauley – Senior Officer, Investment Programs & Governance – State Board of Administration of Florida Brandon J. Rees – Deputy Director, Corporations and Capital Markets – American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations Roland H. Schustereder – Global Manager, Total Rewards – ExxonMobil
4:10 – 4:20 p.m. ET	Break
4:20 – 5:35 p.m. ET	Panel 3 Moderator: Ning Chiu – Partner – Davis Polk & Wardwell Panelists: Terry Adamson – Partner – Infinite Equity Sarah E. Fortt – Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary – Ford Motor Company Drew Hambly – Investment Director, Stewardship – California Public Employees’ Retirement System Ronald O. Mueller – Partner – Gibson Dunn John Roe – Head of Investment Stewardship in the Americas – BlackRock Marc Treviño – Partner – Sullivan & Cromwell