From Growth Story to AI Value Creation: Executive Compensation in Technology
From Growth Story to AI Value Creation: Executive Compensation in Technology sophia.defreit…Steve Charlebois
Biography
Steve has 20+ years of executive and global compensation consulting experience gained through a combination of external consulting and in-house roles.
He has extensive experience working across a broad spectrum of domestic and international executive and director pay issues, with a unique perspective shaped by his experiences living and working in both Europe and North America.
Steve's focuses on technology clients and companies in adjacent industries across all stages of their life cycle, including start-ups, pre- and post-IPO, later-stage, turnaround, SPACs, and the Fortune 100).
Before joining Pearl Meyer, Steve spent more than a decade at a leading executive compensation consulting firm, where he advanced to partner. He has a Bachelor’s degree with specialization in Finance from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he was awarded a Division I hockey scholarship.
I am a straightforward, client-centric business advisor who helps clients achieve optimal results during key inflection points in their lifecycle. In my business-based approach, I seek to work closely with both the Compensation Committee and management to ensure the best solution for each key stakeholder.
Mark Rosen
Biography
Mark Rosen is a managing director and consulting team leader at Pearl Meyer. In his management role, he oversees a team of senior compensation consultants in the execution of the firm’s growth strategy and in the development of consultants at various stages in their careers. Mark has consulted on executive and board compensation issues for more than 20 years for a broad range of public companies, as well as tax-exempt organizations and academic institutions. He has extensive experience with benchmarking, retirement plan design, governance issues, and tax and accounting considerations.
Prior to joining the firm, Mark was a partner in the human capital practice of Arthur Andersen, where he led the southeast compensation practice as well as the Carolinas’ human capital practice.
He holds a BBA and an MS in accounting with a specialty in taxation from Texas A&M University. Mark is also a certified public accountant.
The best advisory relationships are grounded in trust, responsiveness, and sound judgment. My focus is on helping clients navigate complex compensation decisions with practical guidance that reflects long-term business goals, stakeholder expectations, and market realities.
Aalap Shah
Biography
Aalap Shah is a managing director at Pearl Meyer. With more than 20 years of experience, Aalap advises public and privately held companies on executive compensation issues, with focus on pay governance, pay-for-performance alignment, and incentive plan design. Of particular interest is the intersection between business strategy, people strategy, and compensation strategy, believing alignment of all three is required to design effective programs.
Aalap advises clients in a variety of industries, including high-tech, healthcare, financial services, consumer products, retail, manufacturing, real estate, and media. He also consults on special compensation programs for IPO and merger and acquisition transactions.
Prior to joining Pearl Meyer in 2006, Aalap was with Mercer Human Resource Consulting, where he specialized in executive remuneration advisory services.
Aalap holds a BS degree in industrial and labor relations with a concentration in international human resource management from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.
Organizations create and sustain their competitive advantage by offering a distinctive value proposition to both their customers and investors. That value proposition manifests itself in various ways—products and services, the brand, operational efficiencies, and so on. My responsibility is to craft unique compensation structures, within the context of effective corporate governance, that guarantee your organization’s people strategy will be a competitive advantage. I do this by partnering with you to dive deep and think creatively.
