Joe Sorrentino

Joe Sorrentino joined the firm in 2018 and has over 20 years of executive compensation consulting experience. His client assignments have been with both public and privately held companies in industries including: chemicals, consumer products, financial services, health care, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, real estate/REITS and utilities. His consulting engagements often focus on the development of executive compensation strategy, design of annual and long-term incentive programs, and ISS equity plan modeling, compensation and governance policies.

Joe serves as the independent advisor to Compensation Committees and works in a supporting consultant role on many of the firm’s large and more complex clients.

Joe is a frequent author and speaker on issues related to executive compensation. He has spoken at numerous conferences including those held by the Conference Board, the Global Equity Organization, the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, WorldatWork, and other related trade and educational organizations.

Previously, Joe was employed as an executive compensation consultant with Steven Hall & Partners and Pearl Meyer & Partners.

Relevant Experience

• Compensation Committee Advisor
• Corporate Governance
• Director Compensation
• Executive Compensation Accounting & Tax Issues
• Executive Compensation Benchmarking
• Executive Compensation Strategy
• Equity Incentives
• Incentive Plan Design
• Performance Measurement
• Private Companies/Pre-IPO
• Shareholder Voting Guidelines
• Strategic Incentives
• Total Compensation Reviews
• Transaction Issues (IPO, Merger, Spin-off)

Speaking Engagements and Presentations

July 23, 2024
NACD Research Triangle Chapter
Post-Proxy Compensation Trends
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May 1, 2024
NACD Research Triangle Chapter – Leading from the Boardroom: Board Composition, Compensation and Succession
Panel Discussion: Compensation Trends
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March 16, 2022
NACD Research Triangle Chapter
Executive Compensation for Private Companies
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February 24, 2022
NACD New Jersey Chapter
Compensation Roundtable for Compensation Comittee Members – By Invitation Only
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Publications

November 20, 2025
Retaining the C-Suite After CEO Turnover
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January 3, 2023
ISS Releases 2023 Proxy Voting Guidelines and Compensation FAQs
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July 31, 2022
Executive Compensation: Insight on companies’ governance
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December 10, 2021
ISS and Glass Lewis Issue Updates to 2022 Policy Guidelines
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January 26, 2021
Retaining the C-Suite After CEO Turnover
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October 17, 2019
2019 Annual Incentive Plan Report
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January 9, 2019
ISS Publishes FAQs for the 2019 Proxy Season
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