CONSULTING MANAGEMENT TEAM
Linda E. Amuso
President
Linda E. Amuso is a highly recognized thought-leader and an expert in the field of executive and employee compensation design for the technology and life sciences industries. For 20 years, Linda has worked directly with senior management and Board of Directors on developing and implementing executive and equity compensation strategies, effectively linking performance management strategies to salary systems, and designing annual/long-term incentive plans. Since joining Radford in 2005, Linda has been instrumental in building Radford's consulting practice and expanding Radford's services globally.
In 1993, Linda co-founded iQuantic, Inc. (acquired by Buck Consultants in 2001), and was a key contributor in building the organization into a national compensation consulting business. She also led the expansion of iQuantic's business into the life sciences industry, offering consulting and survey support. At Buck Consultants, Linda held a number of leadership positions including Western Region Compensation Practice Leader, National Leader for the Biotechnology Sector and Northern California Market Leader.
Linda earned a bachelor of science from Ithaca College and a master of arts in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University. She speaks on compensation and corporate governance issues frequently, and has been quoted in national business press, including the Wall Street Journal. Linda is based in San Francisco.
Terry Adamson
Senior Vice President
Terry Adamson is senior vice president of Radford Valuation Services, the equity valuation group of Aon Consulting, and has nearly fifteen years of benefit and compensation consulting experience. Terry is involved with all phases of equity compensation valuations including design of executive packages; valuation of compensatory arrangements for purposes of a change in control under IRC 280G; sabbatical valuations under FAS 43/EITF 06-2; and Employee Stock Option (ESO) valuations and Employee Stock Purchase Plans under FAS 123(R). Additionally, Terry consults with clients on issues involving all aspects of a company's benefit and equity programs in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
As National Practice Leader for Radford's ESO valuation practice and the lead project manager, Terry manages a team of valuation experts and is responsible for the completion of quarterly FAS 123(R) accounting valuations in addition to being the primary client contact. Some of his current clients are 3M, Altera Corp, AMD, Applied Materials, Bank of New York, McDonald's, Prudential Financial, Symantec, UnitedHealth Group, US Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank.
Terry recently co-authored articles in: Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal, "Golden Parachutes - New Planning Opportunities" and "Executive Compensation Audits - Planning Now to Avoid Trouble Later;" Benefits Quarterly, "Employee Stock Options - New Valuation Responsibilities and Planning Opportunities;" WorldatWork Journal, "Performance Equity Plans: The Design and Valuation Under FAS123(R);" The Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance, "A Technical Roadmap to Expense Allocation Under FAS123(R);" and Compensation and Benefits Review, "No Vacation on Sabbatical Plan Accounting."
Terry earned a bachelor of science in mathematics from Georgetown University. He was on the FASB Round Table on Employee Share Options and is the Chairperson of the Society of Actuaries Taskforce on stock option valuation. Terry is a Certified Equity Professional (CEP) and serves on the Curriculum Committee of the CEP. He is based in Philadelphia.
Ted Buyniski
Senior Vice President
Ted Buyniski has nearly 30 years of tax, legal and human resources experience. He is a leading practitioner in the areas of executive compensation, equity and corporate governance. For more than a decade, his practice has focused on serving domestic and global clients in the high technology and life science communities, particularly software, semiconductor, and medical device companies.
Prior to joining Radford, Ted led the high technology compensation practice for Mellon Human Resources and Investor Solutions; managed the East Coast practice of iQuantic; oversaw the compensation function for AlliedSignal (now Honeywell); and practiced law as a tax attorney.
Ted earned a bachelor of science in foreign service from Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a juris doctorate from Boston University School of Law. In addition, to being a member of the Massachusetts Bar, he is a certified employee benefits specialist, and served on the FASB's Equity Expensing Roundtable. Ted regularly contributes to industry and business publications and is a frequent speaker on compensation topics. He is based in Boston.
Marvin Mazer
Senior Vice President
Marv Mazer has been consulting in the areas of executive compensation, sales compensation, international compensation, and general compensation planning and design for more than 30 years.
Prior to joining Radford, Marv was a senior vice president in the executive compensation practice of Aon Consulting. His focus areas included the design of Board compensation programs; short- and long-term executive incentive plan designs; sales compensation programs, special compensation programs for critically-skilled professionals; and performance-based salary management programs. Prior to Aon, Marv established the mid-Atlantic region compensation consulting practice while at Coopers & Lybrand (PwC). He also held positions with Sun Company, Inc. (Sunoco) and Philadelphia National Bank (CoreStates Financial).
Marv earned a bachelor of science in mathematics and a master of science in business administration from Pennsylvania State University. He is a certified compensation professional as well as a member of WorldatWork and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals. He has been a compensation instructor, a speaker for regional organizations, and has written articles on compensation subjects for local and national publications. Marv is based in Atlanta.
Edward J. Speidel
Senior Vice President
Edward J. Speidel has nearly 20 years of experience in executive and equity compensation, corporate governance and employee benefits consulting. His clientele consists of companies of varying size and complexity, in a wide array of industries. He maintains a strong focus on the high technology communities, with emphasis in e-commerce, semiconductors, software, and life sciences firms.
Prior to joining Radford, Ed was principal and national executive compensation practice leader for Mellon Human Resources & Investor Solutions (formerly Buck Consultants). Before Mellon, Ed was managing director of the Northeast compensation practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Ed earned a bachelor of arts in economics/government from University of Delaware, a master of business administration from Lehigh University, a juris doctorate from New England Law, and a master of laws in taxation from Boston University School of Law. In addition, he is a certified compensation; benefits; and equity professional, respectively. Ed writes and speaks frequently on executive and equity compensation issues. He is based in Boston.
Matt Ward
Senior Vice President
Matt Ward is an attorney and CPA with nearly 30 years of consulting experience, focusing on strategic annual and long-term incentive plan design for both public and private companies. Matt serves clients of varying size and complexity, ranging from small start-ups to Fortune 100 firms. He has extensive experience with compensation planning issues resulting from mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, leveraged buyouts, and joint ventures.
Prior to joining Radford, Matt founded WestWard Pay Strategies, Inc., where he served as CEO. Before WestWard, he held senior positions with Watson Wyatt and Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc.
Matt earned a bachelor of arts in accounting and finance from DePaul University, graduating magna cum laude. He also earned a juris doctorate from University of Utah, where he was a William H. Leary Scholar and member of the Utah Law Review. Matt speaks frequently across the country, is quoted extensively and has published numerous articles on a variety of compensation subjects. He is based in San Francisco.
Marie Brinkman
Vice President
Marie Brinkman has worked with high technology and life sciences companies to develop compensation and benefit programs for more than 20 years. Her current assignments include market analyses of US and international pay levels and practices; development of global job leveling and base pay structures; design of variable cash and sales compensation plans; modeling and design of equity and cash-based long-term incentive programs; and, audits of international benefits and human resource practices.
Prior to joining Radford, Marie was a principal consultant with the global rewards practice of Right Management Consultants (previously Bowker Consulting International). Prior to Right, Marie held positions with Visa International, Pacific Telesis, and Sprint Communications. She also was an executive compensation consultant with Watson Wyatt.
Marie earned a master's in business administration in finance and a bachelor of arts in psychology from University of California, Berkeley. She has spoken on global compensation topics at the WorldatWork conferences in Europe and Asia and is a key presenter of global compensation trends for Radford at its global regional conferences. Marie is based in San Francisco.
Jon Burg
Vice President
Jon Burg is vice president and West Coast Practice Leader of Radford Valuation Services, the equity valuation group of Aon Consulting. He has eleven years of pension consulting experience, including an emphasis on equity compensation in the last five years.
Jon has a track record of working with companies on the plan design, valuation, and financial management of their retirement and equity compensation programs. He leverages an extensive actuarial background in analyzing historical plan experience and performing complex valuations to apply an added rigor and discipline to the world of equity compensation. He collaborates directly with audit and compensation committees to develop sound equity compensation design, practices and procedures.
Prior to joining Radford, Jon served as a pension actuary for JPMorgan Compensation and Benefit Strategies and as National Practice Leader of their FAS 123(R) consulting practice.
Jon earned a bachelor of science in mathematics and economics from the University of Washington. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and an Enrolled Actuary. Jon speaks on a variety of equity compensation topics at industry events in addition to local and national NASPP meetings. He is based in San Francisco.
Brett Harsen
Vice President
Brett Harsen has more than 12 years of compensation consulting experience on a range of issues, including broad-based employee pay, short- and long-term incentive design, executive and Board of Directors compensation. He specializes in equity compensation design and delivery for a variety of industries, with a focus on technology and life sciences.
In his current role, Brett leads the Radford Analytic Services (RAS) group, providing customized market analytics and compensation design support. In addition to managing the strategic direction for RAS, he directs Radford's specialized research into equity and Board of Directors compensation practices and is a leader in Radford's underwater option consulting practice.
Prior to joining Radford, Brett held consulting positions at Mellon's HR & Investor Solutions, iQuantic and Deloitte & Touche's Human Capital Advisory Services.
Brett earned a bachelor of science from University of Illinois and holds designations from WorldatWork as a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), and the Society for HR Management as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR). He is a frequent writer and speaker on equity and long-term incentive topics, and has been quoted in national business press, including the Wall Street Journal. Brett is based in San Jose, Calif.
David Knopping
Vice President
David Knopping has 10 years of compensation consulting experience on a variety of issues. Areas of focus include executive and broad-based compensation strategies, employment contract development, Board of Director pay, and short- and long-term incentive plan design. David's primary consulting projects cover various sectors of the high technology industry, including software products/services, semiconductors and Internet/e-commerce. He also has significant experience working with life sciences and pharmaceutical companies.
Prior to joining Radford, David held consulting positions at Buck Consultants, and was a financial associate for the Vanguard Group.
David earned a bachelor of arts in economics from University of Michigan and a master of business administration from University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business. He is a frequent speaker on executive and equity compensation topics. David is based in San Francisco.
Ellen Miller
Vice President
Ellen Miller has more than 25 years experience in human resource management, specializing in sales and incentive plan design for the technology and life sciences industries.
In her current role, Ellen leads Radford's global sales compensation business, including both the market-leading Radford Global Sales Survey and the sales effectiveness consulting practice. Her focus is to work closely with clients to design and implement sales incentive strategies leveraging Radford's industry-leading sales compensation database to ensure plans are competitive and customized to meet our client's specific business needs. She brings business, human resources and compensation design experience from working with companies across the technology industry at all stages of growth and with varying business models.
Prior to joining Radford, Ellen held management positions in all areas of human resources at Motorola., KLA Instruments Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices and Monolithic Memories. In addition to her in-house positions, she was a principal consultant at Cypress Ridge Consulting for 15 years, using her considerable consulting expertise in the technology industry to take teams from concept to completion at break-neck speed.
Ellen earned a master's from Smith College and a bachelor of science with highest honors from the University of California, Davis. She is a member of WorldatWork and the Society for Human Resource Management.
Gary Starzmann
Vice President
Gary Starzmann has nearly 20 years of both domestic and international experience and perspective in compensation, benefits, outsourcing, and line management. His expertise is executive, Board of Directors, and broad-based compensation, as well as performance management, with a distinct focus on the life sciences and technology industries.
Prior to joining Radford, Gary was vice president of compensation and benefits for ACS, Inc., a Fortune 500 technology company and business service provider. Before ACS, he was a regional practice leader with Buck Consultants, consulted for Andersen, Hay Group and Towers Perrin, and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army.
Gary earned a bachelor of science in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a master of business administration from Emory University's Goizueta Business School. He serves on the faculty of WorldatWork, where he teaches several courses, and is an internationally cited author and speaker on compensation-related topics. Gary holds the Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Global Remuneration Professional (GRP), Certified Benefits Professional (CBP), and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designations. He is based in Austin.
Colin J. Donnelly
Assistant Vice President
Colin Donnelly is an assistant vice president with Radford Valuation Services, the equity valuation group of Aon Consulting. He has more than 10 years of benefits and consulting experience. Colin works directly with employee stock option (ESO) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan valuation clients in analyzing stock option data, performing statistical analysis, developing assumptions, and producing financial reporting information under FAS 123 and FAS 123(R). He has been integral in the development of the Aon Actuarial Binomial Model. Colin also works with clients in measuring the impact of plan design changes. Clients on which he has consulted include 3M, US Bancorp, UnitedHealth Group, and Wells Fargo.
Colin has extensive experience as a defined benefit retirement plan analyst, performing benefit calculations for AmerisourceBergen and IKON Office Solutions. He has participated in numerous plan design studies and government testing of 401(k) and 403(b) plans.
Colin majored in mathematics at Drexel University and holds the Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation. He is based in Philadelphia.
Melissa Grace
Assistant Vice President
Melissa Grace has more than 10 years of compensation experience, with a focus on the design, direction and implementation of compensation programs across worldwide high technology and life sciences organizations. She has developed long-term incentive strategies, executive compensation programs, base salary structures and administration guidelines, short-term variable incentive plans and Board of Director pay plans, as well as custom compensation surveys.
Prior to joining Radford, Melissa was director of compensation at Expedia, where she oversaw the compensation function for 4,000 worldwide employees. Before Expedia, she held consulting positions at iQuantic Buck (later acquired by Mellon Financial), Hewitt Associates and Watson Wyatt.
Melissa earned a bachelor of science in finance from University of Maryland, College Park. She is based in Washington, DC.
Eela Javid
Assistant Vice President
Eela Javid has focused on designing, analyzing and implementing survey processes and compensation programs for nearly 10 years. In her current role, she manages high technology and life sciences international survey and consulting activities in Europe and works with survey clients to better interpret and utilize Radford data in designing their programs.
Prior to joining Radford, Eela was senior manager of strategic development at Buck Consultants. Her focus was on business development and survey operations including, implementing strategic methods for analyzing survey output and leading the creation of various survey tools that allowed for timely delivery of high-quality data to clients. Prior to Buck, Eela led the human resources function at E2open; developed executive bonus plans at Agilent; and assisted in implementing global executive programs at Solectron.
Eela earned a bachelor of science in psychology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and a master of arts in counseling psychology from Santa Clara University. She is based in London.
Ramanathan Kumar
Assistant Vice President
Ram Kumar has nearly 10 years of experience in the governance and compensation industry. He is primarily focused on helping companies evaluate and resolve compensation plan design issues in the context of emerging standards of corporate governance and the perspectives of investors and proxy advisors.
Prior to joining Radford, Ram was an assistant vice president in the executive compensation practice of Aon Consulting. Prior to Aon, Ram worked in the corporate governance industry for more than six years, including four years at the prominent proxy advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). While at ISS, he led the US research group charged with analyzing all public US companies and making proxy recommendations to institutional investors.
Ram earned a bachelor of arts from Johns Hopkins University. He is based in New York.
James Lecher
Assistant Vice President
Jim Lecher is an assistant vice president with Radford Valuation Services, the equity valuation group of Aon Consulting. He has nearly 10 years of benefits and compensation consulting experience. Jim has consulted on a variety of employee benefits and compensation issues including annual actuarial Employee Retirement Income Security Act funding and FAS 87 accounting valuations; Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan design and valuation; FAS 106 valuation; several asset/liability studies; Consulting Analysis of Stock Expense (CASE) under FAS 123 and FAS 148; and valuations of Employee Stock Purchase Plans under FAS 123.
In his current role, Jim heads the stock option research and development team for Radford Valuation Services. He has been instrumental in the development of the Aon Cumulative Hazard Rate Binomial Model. Additionally, he has developed many cutting-edge Monte Carlo simulation models used to value equity grants containing market conditions and enhance the accuracy of valuations of traditional stock option grants. Jim currently performs annual and quarterly stock option valuations under FAS 123 for several clients, performs valuation of compensatory arrangements for purposes of a change in control under IRC 280G and consults on various executive compensation issues.
Prior to joining Radford Valuation Services, Jim held positions with ASA Consulting Group and Mercer Human Resources Consulting.
Jim is a member of the Society of Actuaries task force, which is currently analyzing the early exercise behavior of employees. Jim is a frequent speaker on compensation and valuation topics and has been published in WorldatWork.
Jim earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Arcadia University and holds a Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation. He is based in Philadelphia.
Jack McArthur
Assistant Vice President
Jack McArthur is an assistant vice president with Radford Valuation Services, the equity valuation group of Aon Consulting. In his twenty years of benefit and compensation consulting experience, he has consulted on a variety of employee benefits and compensation issues including Employee Stock Option valuation under FAS 123 and FAS 148; sabbatical leaves under FAS 43; annual actuarial Employee Retirement Income Security Act funding and FAS 87 accounting valuations; Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan design and valuation; FAS 106 valuations; and asset/liability studies.
As a project leader with Radford Valuation Services, Jack is primarily responsible for the completion of quarterly FAS 123 accounting valuations. He also consults on various executive compensation issues, in addition to being the primary client contact.
Prior to joining Radford Valuation Services, Jack was an associate at Cooper & Lybrand, now part of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Jack earned a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from Manhattanville College. He is an associate in the Society of Actuaries, and a member of both the Conference of Consulting Actuaries and the American Academy of Actuaries. Jack also holds a Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation. He is based in New Jersey.
Elizabeth Stoudt
Assistant Vice President
Liz Stoudt is an assistant vice president with Radford Valuation Services, the equity valuation group of Aon Consulting. She has more than four years of benefits and compensation consulting experience.
Liz has consulted on a variety of employee benefits and compensation issues including employee stock option valuations and consulting under FAS 123(R) and FAS 148; valuations of employee stock purchase plans under FAS 123(R); annual actuarial Employee Retirement Income Security Act funding; FAS 87 accounting valuations; Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan valuations; and FAS 106 valuations.
In her current role, Liz performs Employee Stock Option (ESO) valuations under FAS 123(R) for various clients and consults on various executive compensation issues. She works directly with ESO valuation clients in analyzing stock option data, performing statistical analysis, developing assumptions, and producing financial reporting information under FAS 123 and FAS 123(R). Clients on which she has consulted include AmerisourceBergen, Applebee’s, Interpublic Group, Staples and Wells Fargo Corporation.
Prior to joining Radford Valuation Services, Liz was an actuarial analyst with Mercer Human Resources Consulting.
Liz earned a bachelor of science degree in actuarial science from Pennsylvania State University. She has successfully completed several of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) exams and holds the Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation. Liz is based in Radnor, PA.
Robert Surdel
Assistant Vice President
Robert Surdel has nearly 10 years of compensation consulting experience on a broad range of human resources issues, including executive compensation, short- and long-term incentive design and sales effectiveness. In his current role, Rob consults with global organizations at various stages of development and maturity, with a focus on high technology and life sciences, as well as across general industry. Rob adds significant client value through his innovative quantitative analysis and extensive project management experience.
Prior to joining Radford, Rob held consulting positions at Pearl Meyer & Partners, Buck Consultants and iQuantic.
Rob earned a bachelor of arts in economics and environment sciences from Bowdoin College, graduating cum laude. He is currently pursuing a master of business administration from the Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Rob holds the Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) and Global Remuneration Professional (GRP) designations. He is periodically published in Directorship and Workspan magazine. Rob is based in Boston.
Annette Winn
Assistant Vice President
Annette Winn has 15 years of experience providing advice and assistance to clients regarding a range of compensation issues including total compensation strategy, senior management compensation, short- and long-term incentive plan design, and salary management programs. She also has experience designing compensation programs for companies facing mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and initial public offerings.
Prior to joining Radford, Annette was a senior compensation consultant for WestWard Pay Strategies, Inc. She also worked at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, specializing in executive and general compensation programs.
Annette earned a bachelor of arts in economics from University of California, Berkeley and holds the Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation. Annette is based in San Diego.
