Biography

Rob James is a managing director with Pearl Meyer with almost 15 years of experience in executive compensation and finance. He serves as a trusted advisor to boards and senior management at public and private firms across North America. 

He works with companies in all industries, but he has in-depth knowledge and expertise in designing compensations strategies for organizations in life sciences and technology, particularly emerging and high growth companies that are pursuing or have recently completed a M&A transaction or public offering.  

Prior to joining Pearl Meyer, Rob was a co-founding partner at Echelon Compensation Partners, an independent consulting firm specializing in executive and broad-based compensation at privately held and publicly traded companies, and a director at Farient Advisors in Los Angeles. He is a Certified Executive Compensation Professional, a distinction awarded by WorldatWork for excellence in the field, and a Certified Equity Professional, which is the only internationally recognized equity compensation designation focusing on taxation, accounting, securities laws, and administration of equity-based incentive programs. 

Rob holds a BSc. with honors degree in international management with American business studies from the University of Manchester, UK.
 

Biography

Terry Newth is a managing director and head of our life sciences practice at Pearl Meyer. He consults on the design, development, and assessment of executive compensation programs that support each organization’s business objectives, long term business strategy, and organizational culture. His clients range from private venture-backed to large multinational life science companies. Terry’s areas of expertise include pay strategy and philosophy development, market-based pay studies, incentive plan design, severance and CIC arrangements, outside director pay, transaction-related compensation, CD&A and supporting table disclosures, corporate governance, and share plan authorizations.

Before joining Pearl Meyer, Terry was a senior consultant in the executive compensation practice of Towers Watson. He also had responsibility for the analysis, development, and implementation of global compensation programs at American Power Conversion and at Thomson Financial.

Terry holds a BS from Providence College and a MS in labor relations/human resources from the University of Rhode Island.

Biography

Adam Kahle is a principal at Pearl Meyer. He has more than 20 years of experience in both corporate compensation and consulting. His consulting experience covers a range of industries, including business services, consumer products, education, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, life sciences, media and telecommunications, retail, transportation, and technology. Additionally, Adam is a privately held company executive compensation expert with experience in pre-IPO planning and long-term incentive plan design.

Previously, Adam served as head of global executive compensation at Takeda Pharmaceuticals and was an executive compensation consultant at Korn Ferry.

Adam holds a BA in psychology from Saint Olaf College and a Master's degree in human resources management from the Carlson School of Management.