Jane Romweber is a partner and senior consultant for Meridian Compensation Partners. She has consulted for more than 25 years on executive and director pay issues, including pay levels and program design, pay-for-performance linkage, compensation strategy and its achievement, governance best practices, technical issues and implementation. Romweber’s clients include boards of directors and management at large-cap and mid-cap companies in diverse industries including business services, energy and utilities, media, manufacturing, defense, consumer products, distribution, financial services and retailing. Romweber is the author of numerous articles and speeches covering topics such as the pay of non-CEO chairs, trends in executive compensation, the appropriate use of data, Compensation Committee governance, employment contracts and the economics of stock options. ~~~ Don Kalfen is a partner and senior consultant for Meridian Compensation Partners. He leads Meridian’s Technical Team, and has more than 20 years of consulting experience in executive and director compensation and related issues. He advises clients on a broad range of technical, regulatory and corporate governance matters affecting the design, implementation and administration of executive compensation arrangements. These include accounting standards, tax rules, proxy disclosure requirements, securities exchange listing standards and proxy voting guidelines of major institutional shareholders and their advisers.