About Us

Compensation Advisory Partners, LLC, an independent executive compensation consulting firm that provides a full range of assistance with all executive compensation needs, was founded on the principle that human capital is an organization’s most important asset. Human capital represents one of the few sustainable competitive advantages available to businesses today.

We believe that each organization’s leadership team needs to be aligned with its business strategy, objectives and stakeholders. The executive compensation program, particularly the incentive elements, plays an important part in establishing and reinforcing this alignment.

We believe the cornerstone of a compensation program should:

  • Support the company's business strategy
  • Reward for the right outcomes and behaviors
  • Deliver value when stakeholders realize value over the long-term
  • Enable a company to attract and retain the necessary talent to drive its strategy
  • Align with the client’s appetite for risk and risk management processes
  • Utilize company resources judiciously
  • Build upon excellent governance practices that stand up to public scrutiny
  • Comply with regulatory standards (SEC, Stock exchanges, accounting)

As the external environment continues to evolve in an unprecedented fashion, companies benefit greatly in their oversight and decision making by partnering with outside advisors with extensive experience, integrity, data and technical grounding.

Our six partners combined have more than 100 years of experience consulting to Boards of Directors and management on the full range of executive compensation issues. Our client experience ranges from working with some of the largest Fortune 100 multi-nationals to smaller start-ups structuring new executive compensation programs. Prior to forming Compensation Advisory Partners, our partners worked together in Mercer’s Human Capital consulting practice. At Mercer we saw the need for a New Resource for Independent Compensation Advice and founded CAP in 2009.

In addition to working with Boards and management, our partners have testified before Congress, the SEC and IRS on regulatory issues related to executive compensation; authored books and numerous articles; given speeches at conferences around the world; taught professional certification classes for WorldatWork, lectured on compensation at educational institutions and served as a liaison to industry groups.