The article “Boards Recruit More Specialists as Committees Face Pressure to Perform” highlights how corporate boards are evolving by recruiting directors with more specialized skills due to increasing committee responsibilities. MyLogIQ contributed key analytical insights on the evolving skillsets of board committee members, particularly in the Russell 3000 companies: Audit Committees: Significant five-year increases in…
Jim Moylan, the longtime Ciena finance chief, has steered his company through tumultuous economic moments, including the 2008-09 financial crisis and the pandemic. Before his planned retirement in August, he’s doing it one more time, helping the fiber-optic gear supplier navigate a trade war. …Moylan, who is 74 years old, stands out among public-company CFOs…
As companies navigate a landscape defined by rapid change, geopolitical complexity, and rising stakeholder expectations, Agenda finds that boards are increasingly looking for directors who bring resilience, strategic clarity, and crisis-tested leadership. One surprising but powerful source of such talent? Military veterans. A growing number of public company boards are welcoming military-experienced directors—leaders who bring…
Using the CompanyIQ corporate governance research platform, we analyzed how R3000 companies structure board oversight of ESG initiatives. Among our findings are that there has not been much growth in ESG-specific committees.
A Profile of Compensation Consultants in the R3000
140 Interim CEOships since 2014 with Avearge Pay of $1.6 Million Between 2014 and YTD 2019, Russell 3000 companies had 140 interim CEO positions with an average total compensation of $1.6 million. Making up those 140 interim CEOships over the past six years were: 126 companies 140 We used our CompanyIQ® compensation tool to review…
Partnering with Gallagher and The Conference Board, we provided executive pay data from the CompanyIQ® executive compensation database to look at trends in CEO pay. Below are some of the key findings. In 2018, for the second year in a row, total CEO compensation grew in the Russell 3000 at a markedly higher rate than…
Using the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR search tool, reviewed disclosures for public companies in the Russell 3000 index for 2019, 2018, and 2017. 36 companies in the Russell 3000 have a going concern present in the auditor opinion. Nearly 60%, 21 of the 36, are pharmaceutical companies. Two of the notable companies are PG&E and Wells…
Using the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database, we looked at the question of why directors of R3000 companies were departing. Our main finding is that restructuring was the top reason for director departures in the Russell 3000 for January-March 2019.
What Does the Data Say About Director Departures? As the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database on corporate governance shows, companies in the Russell 3000 index have a total of some 26,000 directors serving on their boards. A certain amount of churn among these directors is standard and expected due to life events, mergers and acquisitions, terminations,…