Charles Elson, Director of Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, to Address FCD Dinner on Board Role in Executive Compensation

ORANGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Forum for Corporate Directors (FCD), Orange County’s leading resource for achieving corporate board excellence and good governance, today announced that Charles M. Elson, a leading authority on executive compensation and corporate governance, will address the FCD dinner event on Dec. 19, on the timely issue of executive pay and the role of boards of directors and compensation committees in establishing appropriate compensation programs.

“Mr. Elson has been a visiting professor at the law schools of the University of Illinois, Cornell University and the University of Maryland, and has served on the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Commission on Director Compensation”

“Charles Elson is the Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and is the Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, and is one of the foremost authorities on this subject in the U.S.,” said John Rehfeld, FCD chairman. “He has testified before Congress on executive pay, lectures widely on the subject and serves on the boards of several public companies.

“Mr. Elson has been a visiting professor at the law schools of the University of Illinois, Cornell University and the University of Maryland, and has served on the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Commission on Director Compensation,” Rehfeld noted. “He combines theoretical perspective on issues related to executive pay and practical experience as chair of a compensation committee. He is an adviser to international human resource management consulting firms and serves on several corporate boards.”

This special event will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 19, at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, beginning with a reception at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. and Mr. Elson’s address at 7:30 p.m. The dinner is complimentary for FCD members. The cost is $90 per person for non-members.

For more information or to register for this event, please visit the FCD web site at http://www.fcdoc.org.

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The FCD's members include many of Southern California’s top business and corporate leaders. In addition, corporate members include Advanced Medical Optics, Alacer Corp., Emulex Corporation, Multi-Fineline Electronix, Microsemi Corporation, New Century Financial, Powerwave Technologies, QLogic Corporation, Resources Global Professionals, SRS Labs, The Impac Companies, and The Paul Merage School of Business Executive MBA Programs at UC Irvine.