Research and Markets: The Seminar Structuring Compensation Plans for CEOs & Management Team Members of VC-Backed Companies is Led by Leading Venture Capital Lawyers Such as Fish & Richardson PC

Business Wire, Oct 11, 2007

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c71211) has announced the addition of Structuring Compensation Plans for CEOs & Management Team Members of VC-Backed Companies to their offering.

The goal of this desktop-based seminar is to provide CEOs of VC-backed companies with important information on ensuring their compensation plan and those of other members of the executive team are equivalent in structure with those of executives of other VC-backed companies. The seminar is led by leading venture capital lawyers (Joseph Bartlett, Fish & Richardson PC; Andrew Updegrove, Gesmer Updegrove LLP; Stuart Lewis, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC) who have worked with hundreds of management teams and venture capitalists and have extensive experience in negotiating and structuring compensation plans for executives who have received venture capital funding (regardless of whether funding was just received or if it was several years ago). The seminar also includes specific strategies for how and when to approach your board on updating your equity and cash compensation programs. The desktop seminar includes three 45-minute DVDs viewable on any computer or video iPod featuring insights unavailable anywhere else. The seminar focuses on:

- Specific changes to compensation structures in 2007 that you should ask for immediately from your board of directors that do not cost the company anything additional (including key provisions to minimize tax exposure, deferred compensation, and equity bonuses)

- Management contract changes that can provide additional advantages when structuring compensation plans

- How to know when you should update your management agreement

- Case studies of specific comp plans for exec's of VC-backed companies

The seminar takes approximately 3 hours to complete and is guaranteed to make sure that you and your management team are being compensated appropriately and that you know which key provisions executives are having included that are essential in management contracts. Questions answered in the seminar include:

1. What are the most common components of CEO compensation packages in VC funded companies?

2. What is the preferred method for manifesting the comp package into a time specific contract?

3. Which elements of the equity compensation are most favored by CEOs? Why?

4. How does the VC funding impact the compensation package for CEOs? What is the connection between VC funding and compensation incentives?

5. What are the basics of the annual wage package for CEOs of VC backed companies?

6. How do executives value the different components of the compensation offer? What emphasis is placed on bonuses? Stocks? Wages?

7. How does the CEO package set the tone for the other compensation programs offered to additional executive members of the management team?

8. What language is important when it comes to the compensation in the employment contract?

9. What are the 5-7 most important components of the employment contract and can you walk me through the wording that should be included to be most advantageous for the executive?

10. Which components are the most challenging to negotiate? Why?

11. Which components can be bargained away in favor of other, more important contract terms?

12. What system is most effective when trying to update an executive compensation contract?

13. When is the best time to review deferred compensation packages?

14. What is the most common compensation structure for members of the management team? Why?

15. What terms do the VC investors usually incorporate into the employment contracts of key management members?

16. What method is used to analyze the compensation structure for each executive - CEO, CFO, COO, CTO, CMO, BOARD OF DIRECTORS?

17. What industry standards are applied to the compensation and employment contracts?

18. What calculations and metrics are used to structure the executive compensation?

19. Which structural elements constitute the greatest amount of executive pay?

20. How is performance measurements detailed in the employment contract and compensation agreement?

21. Which executive positions are most closely tied to performance measurements? Why?

22. How are complicated elements of the compensation plan analyzed and monitored?

23. What procedure is used to peg compensation to other organization goals?

24. What schedule is outlined for reviewing compensation against performance goals?

25. Which incentive based elements of the package are preferred by executives? And Venture Capitalists?

26. Which elements of the employment contract are most important to executives? Why?

27. What negotiating strategies and techniques are most successful when dealing with VCs?

28. What are the most difficult terms to negotiate? What can the executive do to prepare for these hot topics?

29. What language must the CEO or executive insist upon when it comes to the employment agreement?

30. What are the non-financial aspects of the contract? Why are these important to executive level management?