Executive Compensation Trends
Live Webinar
FREE for OCCABA members.
Non-OCCABA member may register for $30.
Thursday, March 19, 2026, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm (Pacific Time)
Join us for a session with WTW consultants Mark Chen and BJ Firmacion as they discuss top-of-mind issues in executive compensation for 2026. The topics we will cover include:
- Incentive plan trends: early indications of incentive payouts after a volatile 2025 and changes expected to 2026 incentive plans
- Succession planning: how companies are managing heightened executive turnover and its implications on compensation
- Regulatory: an update on new SEC regulations and proxy advisor policies
Presenting at this event will be:
Mark Chen - Senior Director, Executive Compensation & Board Advisory for WTW
Mark Chen has 21 years of experience consulting with corporate boards and executive teams to align executive pay design with strategic objectives and stakeholder interests. His expertise includes incentive plan design, performance metric selection, pay competitiveness and effective communication in public disclosures. He is also a frequent guest speaker for compensation associations on the topics of executive compensation and total rewards.
Mark assists public, private and not-for-profit organizations in a range of industries including airlines, banking, consumer products, food and beverage, life sciences, high technology, real estate, manufacturing and media.
Mark was appointed to WTW’s Executive Compensation Guiding Principles initiative, which is focused on clarifying and affirming our Executive Compensation & Board Advisory practice’s perspectives, approaches, guidelines and key considerations in support of effective design, governance, management and administration of executive pay programs. Mark also participates in the development and delivery of multiple training programs for our national Executive Compensation analyst team.
Mark earned a B.S. degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine
BJ Firmacion - Director, Executive Compensation & Board Advisory for WTW
BJ Firmacion is a Director in WTW’s Executive Compensation and Board Advisory (ECBA) consulting practice based in Los Angeles.
With over 11 years of experience consulting with clients in both North America and Southeast Asia, BJ has focused his work on executive and non-employee director pay benchmarking, incentive design and pay-for-performance assessments. He works with both management and compensation committees of organizations from a wide range of industries including consumer products, restaurants, real estate, life sciences, industrial manufacturing, airlines and not-for-profit healthcare among others.
Prior to joining WTW in February 2015, BJ was a project manager at Equilar, an executive compensation research firm and data provider where he worked for three years.
In addition to his consulting role, BJ is an active member of WTW’s North America technical training team where he organizes training modules for junior colleagues in various Executive Compensation topics
BJ earned a B.S. degree in Business Economics from the University of the Philippines
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