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On March 8th we combined our operations with Farient Advisors /GECN Group (‘Farient’), the leading independent executive compensation and corporate governance consultancy.

This year’s Neovation Conference was fast-paced and interactive, and confronted many of the biggest challenges in the workplace today: how to use technology and data analytics to make ‘Reward’ compelling, valued and effective.

To the Editor. With reference to your article ‘In defence of fat-cat chief executives’ 4th January 2024, we have some findings which may be of interest.

Our 2023 CEO Value Index, and the 10 Year Anniversary supplement, has just been published. Good to see The Sunday Times cover that story, which came out on New Year's Eve.

This is the 10th anniversary of the CEO Value Index. The Index provides a unique view of the executive pay invested in management talent, and what the shareholders get for their investment.

The U.S. pays more for executive talent, so what? That’s quite a pill to swallow for the British because a great deal of effort has gone into controlling executive pay opportunity while ensuring it is strongly linked to performance...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly significant role in shaping our future, and it is having a direct impact and immediate impact on executive pay, incentive design and pay packages generally.

As you read around the subject of ‘improved transparency’, ‘greater disclosure’ and so forth, below, spare a thought for those poor put-upon search firms trying to find management talent for growing UK companies.

I was training one of our junior members of staff, and she asked what a Non-Executive Director (NED) does, and why? I thought this question was worth addressing.

Exactly last week the Financial Times has published an article by an experienced journalist entitled “Eye-popping executive pay rewards [are] luck, not managerial wizardry”. What do we think about this? Should CEOs earn what they do? and why?

You are more likely to have celebrated with a chocolate bunny than a visit to your local church. If you are less than 30 years old, you may not even know where that church is. Is the same true of capitalism?

The focus of the summit this year was primarily on the removal of the cap on bankers’ bonuses - one of the issues at the top of the agenda for Heads of Reward managing incentive compensation in financial institutions across the UK.

I raise the subject of the canary because it has great relevance to incentive compensation design. It will most likely signal the beginning of yet another economic cycle, just as the failure of Boo.com did on 18th May 2000...

Simon Patterson chaired the 2023 Neovation Event

On Tuesday 28th February 2023, starting at 9am, the Neovation Conference will be held at the Corinthia Hotel, London.

I am an advisor to Boards on executive pay and, as such, I am used to seeing people earning ‘big bucks’. On this occasion, though, I want to shine a light on the role of people who aren’t - in this example, an emergency doctor.