The roundtable was led by Foley Partner Jay Rothman as well as Michael Kesner of Principal of Deloitte Consulting LLP, Ted Buyniski, Senior Vice President of Radford Consulting, Maureen Conners, Director of Deckers Outdoor Corporation, Patrick McGurn, Executive Vice President and Special Counsel of RiskMetrics Group, and Thomas Quadracci, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Orion Energy Systems, Inc. The roundtable addressed the importance of maintaining adequate compensation committee minutes; the content of the compensation disclosure and analysis for public companies; compensation issues faced by multinational companies; the CEO’s role with respect to the compensation committee; the compensation committee’s role in executive succession planning; the role of severance and change of control payments in executive compensation arrangements; best practices in director pay; and structuring public company compensation to focus executives on long-term objectives.