Articles from Equilar

Compensation for top HR leaders saw a slight decrease in 2024, according to Equilar’s HR Executive Pay Trends report, featuring commentary from the HR Policy Association. HR executives at Equilar 500 companies—the 500 largest U.S. public companies by revenue—earned $2.3 million at the median in 2024, marking a decline of less than 1% from the previous year.

Equilar, the leading provider of relationship intelligence solutions, and InvestorFlow, a premier deal management and investor communications platform for financial services and private equity, today announced a strategic partnership. This collaboration integrates Equilar's real-time executive intelligence with InvestorFlow's deal management capabilities, delivering a cutting-edge solution to enhance deal sourcing, relationship management and portfolio oversight for financial services firms.

General Counsel compensation has surged nearly 25% since 2019, according to Equilar’s 2024 General Counsel Pay Trends report, which features commentary from BarkerGilmore. The report, based on an analysis of the Equilar 500—the 500 largest U.S. companies by revenue—reveals that the median total compensation for General Counsel during the five-year period grew to $3.3 million in 2023, from $2.6 million in 2019.

Equilar, a pioneer in executive intelligence, and Salesloft, provider of the only Revenue Orchestration Platform that prioritizes, automates, and recommends actions to drive business, are excited to announce the integration of Equilar Executive Transition Signals into Salesloft Rhythm. This collaboration comes on the heels of the Salesloft Summer 2024 launch of new AI-powered signal-based selling capabilities. The integration equips Salesloft users with real-time insights into executive transitions and immediate next steps, adding a new dimension to their sales workflows.

Equilar, a leader in executive intelligence solutions, announces the launch of ERIC (Equilar Research Intelligence Copilot), a groundbreaking AI-powered proxy analysis tool for compensation and governance professionals. ERIC transforms the navigation and extraction of insights from complex SEC filings and disclosure materials.

Equilar, a leader in executive intelligence solutions, is pleased to announce the expansion of its strategic partnership with Equity Methods, a premier provider of equity compensation solutions. This enhanced collaboration builds on the partnership established in 2022 when Equilar and Equity Methods introduced the Monte Carlo Simulator for relative TSR-based award valuations.

The rise in CEO compensation persisted in 2023, according to a new Equilar study. The 2024 edition of the Equilar 100—an annual early look at CEO compensation among the largest U.S. companies by revenue to file a proxy statement by March 31—shows that median CEO pay jumped to $23.7 million in 2023, marking an increase of 11.4% for the same set of companies from a year ago. The highest-paid CEO on this year’s list is Broadcom’s Hock E. Tan, who was awarded a pay package of nearly $162 million in 2023.

Equilar, a trailblazer in executive intelligence, is proud to introduce Equilar RainMaker, available on Snowflake Marketplace. Equilar RainMaker is an app native to the Snowflake Data Cloud that is designed to operationalize valuable customer relationship data and accelerate growth opportunities.

Amid shifting attitudes towards ESG and diversity efforts, Equilar, a pioneer in executive intelligence solutions, collaborates with the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence to unveil the Top 50 Diverse Board Candidates. This thoughtfully curated list symbolizes collective efforts and an enduring commitment to diversify corporate boards, even in the face of challenges following the passing and subsequent repeal of landmark legislation in CA.

Equilar, Ellig Group, the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence and the Society for Corporate Governance recently collaborated to survey 176 public companies on their director onboarding processes and the success of first-time directors. According to the new survey, 34% of public company boards currently do not have a formalized onboarding process in place for their first-time directors. The statistic is alarming considering the same survey shows that 90% of companies added at least one first-time director over the past three years.

In a transformative collaboration, LeanData and Equilar have joined forces to present a pioneering solution that delivers real-time executive transition insights. This strategic alliance is poised to reshape how organizations approach executive transitions as key signals for sales teams, while delivering faster organization intelligence and supercharging connections with influential decision makers.

CEO compensation continued its post-COVID upward climb in 2022, according to a new Equilar study. The 2023 edition of the Equilar 100, an annual study of America’s largest companies by revenue to file a proxy by March 31, reveals that despite economic uncertainty, median CEO pay reached $22.3 million in 2022—a 7.7% increase among the same companies from 2021. The highest-paid executive on this year’s list is Peloton Interactive CEO Barry McCarthy, who was awarded over $168 million in 2022.

Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, announced today that it has launched a new integration with FactSet to help users receive actionable insights and stay up to date on personnel transitions on key accounts and contacts through FactSet Signals. FactSet Signals helps users overcome information overload with artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, and rules-driven methods to surface useful insights intelligently.

Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, today announced the appointment of Peter MacDonald, a highly seasoned tech executive, to the Equilar board of directors. He brings a wealth of experience managing cloud partnerships and overseeing business development efforts at top tech companies, including Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, and Microsoft.

Equilar, a leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Cloud Peritus. Cloud Peritus is a boutique consulting firm focused on transforming businesses through the power of Salesforce. In 2021, Cloud Peritus was recognized as one of the top 10 Most Promising Salesforce Providers.

Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, today announced its partnership with Equity Methods, a leader in equity compensation solutions, to help human resources, finance and legal teams address new disclosure requirements for Pay Versus Performance. As part of the partnership, Equilar and Equity Methods have developed a Monte Carlo Simulator within the Equilar Insight platform to allow companies to model and predict various outcomes related to their executive pay and performance alignment. The new tools will be made available to clients on December 16, ahead of the upcoming proxy season.

CEO pay at the 500 largest U.S. companies by revenue increased by 18.9% in 2021, according to the 2022 edition of Equilar’s CEO Pay Trends report, which features commentary from Meridian Compensation Partners. Median compensation for Equilar 500 CEOs soared to $14.2 million, rebounding strongly from pandemic declines.

A push to increase diversity in management, along with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in employee engagement surveys, and a belief in the importance of tying executive compensation to ESG, are some of the findings of a survey just released by Equilar and the HR Policy Association.

According to the Q1 2022 Equilar Gender Diversity Index (GDI), women now represent 27.2% of all Russell 3000 board seats, up from 26.7% at the end of 2021. The slight acceleration during the first quarter of the year pushed the GDI to 0.54, where 1.0 represents gender parity. Additionally, the latest GDI report examines the prevalence of women directors across each U.S. state.

According to Equilar’s new Ethnicity Tracker, 14.7% of Russell 3000 board members were ethnically diverse by the end of 2021. The Ethnicity Tracker, the latest installment of The Equilar Diversity Composite, shed light on the progress public companies have made to diversify their boardrooms.

Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, today announced the launch of its CHRO Navigator program—the latest offering in its strategic toolkit for C-suite leaders. The new program provides governance data and insights for the modern CHRO and will be accessible from the Equilar Insight platform.

CEO pay soared in 2021 at the largest U.S. companies by revenue, according to a new Equilar study. The 2022 edition of the Equilar 100, an annual study of the 100 largest U.S. companies by revenue to file a proxy by March 31, revealed that median CEO pay reached $20 million in 2021, up 30.8% from 2020. The highest-paid executive on this year’s list is Intel CEO Patrick P. Gelsinger, who was awarded nearly $178 million in 2021.

The largest U.S. companies are disclosing their environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies at historically high levels, according to Corporate Governance Outlook 2022, a new report from Equilar, which features commentary from Orrick and DFIN.

The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the authority on boardroom practices representing more than 22,000 corporate board members, today announced that NACD Directorship Certified® and NACD Accelerate™ members will be highlighted in the Equilar BoardEdge database, a tech-enabled platform utilized by leading companies to source a new and diverse board-talent pool.

The number of women in director positions at the largest U.S. companies continues to increase, according to the most recent edition of the Equilar Gender Diversity Index (GDI). As of Q3 2021, 26.1% of Russell 3000 directorships were held by women, up from 25.2% in Q2 2021. As a result, the needle on the GDI inched forward from 0.50 to 0.52 in the past quarter, where 1.0 represents gender parity on boards of directors.

Pay packages for the top HR leaders rose 6% in the past year, according to a new Equilar publication, HR Executive Pay Trends. The report found that the median total reported compensation for HR executives at Equilar 500 companies was $2 million in 2021.

Women in the General Counsel position at the largest U.S. companies were paid more than their male counterparts in 2020, according to a new report from Equilar, General Counsel Pay Trends, featuring commentary from BarkerGilmore. Women in the GC role at Equilar 500 companies were awarded $3 million in total reported compensation at the median in 2020, in comparison to $2.7 million for men.

More than one-quarter of board seats in the Russell 3000 now belong to women, according to a new report from Equilar, increasing to 25.2% from 15% just five years ago. The Equilar Gender Diversity Index (GDI) has crossed the halfway mark for the first time, reaching 0.50 as of June 30, 2021, where 1.0 represents gender parity on Russell 3000 boards.

Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, has established a partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, to provide three new data sets in the Snowflake Data Marketplace: People Business Intelligence, Equity and Compensation, and Executive and Director Relationships. Through these data sets, Snowflake users can access the World’s Most Connected Network — the Equilar database of more than 400,000 public companies, one million executive profiles and 100 million person-to-person connections.

Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, today announced a partnership with Disability:IN, the global organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business. It is the first partnership dedicated to advancing boardroom diversity through the inclusion of business executives with disabilities.

CEO pay fell 1.5% in 2020 to $12 million, down from $12.2 million the year prior, according to a new report from Equilar, CEO Pay Trends, which features independent commentary from Meridian Compensation Partners. The report analyzed total reported compensation for chief executives of the Equilar 500, the largest U.S. companies by revenue.

Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, today announced a new Equilar Diversity Network partnership with Out Leadership. This new partnership will expand the scope of director candidates within Equilar BoardEdge, increasing opportunities for LGBTQ+ executives to sit on boards of directors while bolstering public companies’ ability to achieve what Out Leadership calls “Return on Equality,” and the goals of its specific Quorum initiative on LGBTQ+ Board representation.

In response to continued efforts to add professionals from diverse backgrounds to public company boards of directors, Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, has partnered with Agenda, the Financial Times’ publication for corporate board members, on the release of the Agenda Diversity 100, a list of pre-vetted and board-ready candidates from underrepresented demographic groups.

Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, announced today that it has established three new data feeds, including corporate leadership and relationship data, on the Open:FactSet Marketplace. The Open:FactSet Marketplace provides FactSet’s clients with the leading available data and leverages the company’s expertise in data integration to offer datasets that can be easily connected with proprietary models, algorithms and systems.

Equilar, the leading provider of corporate leadership data solutions, announced today that it has entered a strategic partnership with Copilot. Copilot combines data strategy, implementation and custom development expertise to help companies in the financial services, real estate and technology industries enrich their CRMs, build relationships, and close deals.

CEO pay fell in 2020 at the largest U.S. companies, according to a new report from Equilar. The Equilar 100, an annual study of the 100 largest U.S. companies by revenue to file a proxy statement prior to March 31, found that total CEO compensation was $15.5 million at the median, down 1.6% from $15.7 million in the 2019 study.

Equilar, the trusted source of corporate leadership data, today announced a partnership with Third Arrow Strategies. The Third Arrow Strategies Japan Board Diversity Network (JBDN), founded by CEO Tracy Gopal, recently launched with the support of 21 global influential leaders as charter members. The JBDN intends to be a powerful force in raising Japan to board gender diversity standards in the west through aggregating and elevating global female talent for Japan.