I am passionate about delivering thoughtful, tailored solutions to address clients' executive pay and governance needs in a manner that is easily understandable by all stakeholders and that promotes the strong alignment of pay and strategy. Honesty, responsiveness, and professionalism are the foundation on which I build my client relationships over time. These attributes help to enable organizations to not only easily satisfy regulatory requirements and public optics concerns, but they result in effective pay and governance practices that encourage the recruitment, retention, and engagement of executive talent.
Peter Wertheimer is a principal at Pearl Meyer. In this role, he provides executive compensation and governance advisory services to boards and management teams across industries. Peter has a wealth of experience in public and private companies as well as tax-exempt and not-for-profit organizations of all types and sizes. He specializes in executive pay benchmarking, short- and long-term incentive plan design, IPO readiness, reasonableness opinions, peer group development, and board compensation, among other areas.
Prior to joining Pearl Meyer, Peter was an associate principal at Korn Ferry, in the Executive Pay & Governance practice of the Total Rewards division. His clients have included large and complex tax-exempt healthcare and nonprofit organizations, as well as publicly traded and private corporations at various stages of maturity across industries. Earlier in his career, Peter was a consultant at Yaffe & Company, Inc., which was acquired by Pearl Meyer in 2020.
Peter holds a BS from Towson University and a MBA from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He serves on the board of directors of HealthCare Access Maryland and is a member of the Washington Area Total Rewards Association (WATRA) and the Private Directors Association’s Metro DC chapter.
