Andrea Morales, Senior Director of Global Rewards and HR Operations, Amyris

Andrea Morales is Senior Director of Global Rewards and HR Operations at Amyris. Amyris was founded a decade ago with a vision to make the best products available to all and to help humanity while we do it.

In 2017, Andrea started the transformation of the compensation structure at Amyris and took the company on the journey to transparency. It was rolled out and implemented in Q1 of 2018. Amyris employee engagement survey scores for the question “I am Paid Fairly” had the following results: August 2017 43% favorable, February 2018 57% favorable, and February 2019 65% favorable.

Turnover has substantially decreased during that time, and Amyris was under 1% regrettable turnover in 2018. Andrea believes transparency builds trust and culture. Willing to fail and be wrong, the Amyris team was willing to take the risk and pulled back the curtain on compensation.

Michaela Leo, Director, Compensation Programs and Analytics, Merck

Michaela Leo is currently the Director of Compensation Programs and Analytics with Merck & Co, Inc. based in Pennsylvania. Her responsibilities include governance for Merck’s global recognition program and managing data analytics across multiple compensation programs, to ensure that programs are fair, equitable and competitive. Prior to this role, she led Compensation and Benefits for Merck’s EEMEA operations. She has more than 17 years of global compensation management experience in pharmaceutical and services industries.

Alison Avalos, Director, Membership and Total Rewards Strategy, WorldatWork

Alison Avalos is director of membership and total rewards strategy for WorldatWork. She forms and implements strategies for the member value proposition and total rewards practice area, with previous responsibilities for WorldatWork research, certification management and the online community. Prior to joining WorldatWork, Avalos was an HR generalist for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.

Avalos has 20 years of experience working in the human resources field, and has authored multiple survey reports, white papers and workspan articles. She conducts on-site event moderation and speaks regularly on compensation, recognition, and total rewards topics, and has been interviewed for her expertise by local and national press.

Glizcel Ditto, Senior Consultant, Curo

Glizcel Ditto is the Senior Consultant for North America at Curo with over 20 years of experience helping companies align their compensation and talent management philosophies and strategies with technology solutions. She has expertise in managing compensation processes for enterprise organizations across all industries. She also advocates for implementing systems that help to streamline processes and communications while ensuring that technology does not compromise the desired strategic outcome.

Tracy Bosch, Associate Client Partner, Korn Ferry

Tracy Bosch works with a wide range of large, small and growing organizations in both the private and public sector to develop integrated people solutions.

In over 20 years as a business advisor she has worked extensively with financial services, utilities, retail, manufacturing, and public sector organizations to design and implement solutions that build engagement, drive performance, and optimize organizational effectiveness.

Her exposure to a wide range of organizations, business issues, and diverse solutions drives an informed and innovative perspective on emerging client needs.

Tracy is recognized for her ability to understand underlying issues and develop creative, integrated solutions.

Tracy has particular depth of expertise in reward strategy, organization/ job design, and work measurement, representing Canada on global job evaluation standards committees for Korn Ferry Hay Group. Tracy is a leader in advanced work measurement applications such as job family frameworks, career pathing, organization analysis and reward strategies.

Tracy has worked with Hay Group for nearly 20 years in Canada and in Europe. Prior to joining Hay Group, Tracy was a Consultant for Ernst & Young in the UK.

Katie Bardaro, Chief Economist and VP of Data Analytics, PayScale

Katie Bardaro, Vice President of Data Analytics, joined PayScale in 2008. In addition to leading the Data Analytics team and building and maintaining PayScale's proprietary compensation model, Katie serves as PayScale's Chief Economist. She has provided analysis on compensation data and trends for print/online and broadcast media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist, CNBC, CNN Money, USA Today, Forbes, and Business Insider, among others. Katie holds a bachelor's in economics from the College of the Holy Cross and a master's in economics from University of Washington, with a focus in labor economics and econometrics.

Casey North, senior associate in Mercer’s Workforce Strategy & Analytics practice

Casey North is a senior associate in Mercer’s Workforce Strategy & Analytics practice. She works on projects aimed at enabling companies to make data-driven human capital decisions in areas such as pay equity, diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, total rewards and workforce planning. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Northwestern University.

Adrienne Altman, Managing Director, North America Rewards, Willis Towers Watson

Adrienne Altman is a Managing Director of Talent and Rewards in North America and is responsible for WTW North America Rewards business. She is based in the Stamford, Connecticut office but often travels to local offices to meet with clients and colleagues. Prior to her Rewards role, Ms. Altman was responsible for the Stamford market as well as managing large, global client relationships for the firm.

Ms. Altman has a wealth of experience in working with large, complex global organizations, including numerous Fortune 100 companies, in developing their total reward strategies, and the design and implementation of multi-component programs for all levels in the organization (executive, management and broad-based employees). Ms. Altman is at the forefront of client’s focus on Inclusion and Diversity including pay equity, fairness and transparency. With more than 25 years of experience, Ms. Altman is a recognized expert in strategic reward design, and has effectively helped clients to manage design and implementation across industries.

Prior to joining Towers Perrin (a predecessor to Willis Towers Watson) in 1995, Ms. Altman was Human Resource Director for nine years with a retail and manufacturing organization, where she was responsible for all human resource management functions.

Ms. Altman received Masters and Honors degrees of Commerce in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of South Africa, a post-graduate program in business science and a B.A. in economics and psychology from the University of Cape Town. She was licensed as an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist in South Africa.

Gail Greenfield, Principal in Mercer’s Workforce Strategy & Analytics practice

Gail is a Principal in Mercer’s Workforce Strategy & Analytics practice in Washington, DC, where she specializes in diversity and inclusion analytics. Gail has more than 15 years of experience helping organizations identify interventions that will enable them to drive performance through improvements in the management of their talent and create diverse and inclusive workforces. Areas of expertise include workforce analytics, pay equity, and diversity & inclusion. Her insights on pay equity have been featured by leading publications and organizations such as the Washington Post and WorldatWork. Gail received her PhD in economics from Claremont Graduate University and her bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Tom McMullen, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry

Tom McMullen is Senior Client Partner and Global Reward and Benefits Leader for Intellectual Capital and Thought Leadership at Korn Ferry based in Chicago. He is accountable for guiding Korn Ferry’s reward and benefits research, thought leadership and knowledge management initiatives. His client consulting work focuses primarily on supporting clients in their total reward strategy and program design, work measurement, performance management and organization effectiveness priorities. He also leads Korn Ferry’s pay equity management practice in North America. Tom holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Louisville. He is a frequent author and speaker on total rewards and organization effectiveness topics.

Consuela Pinto, Shareholder at Fortney & Scott

Consuela A. Pinto is a Shareholder at Fortney & Scott where she advises clients on the full range of equal employment opportunity laws with a particular focus on compliance with workplace laws and regulations, federal government investigations, pattern and practice systemic claims, and compliance with federal contractors' affirmative action and non-discrimination obligations. Her extensive experience and expertise in the employment field is the result of practicing in both the private and government sectors for more than twenty years.

Most recently, Ms Pinto was a senior attorney at the U.S. Department of Labor in the National Office of the Solicitor where she was the Deputy Associate Solicitor in the Civil Rights and Labor Management Division. In her position at the Labor Department, Ms. Pinto advised DOL agencies on a wide range of regulatory, policy, and enforcement issues impacting a cross-section of workers, and Ms Pinto also had significant managerial responsibilities. One of her and the Office of the Solicitor on enforcement matters related to federal contractors' equal employment opportunity obligations.

Prior to joining the Department of Labor, Ms. Pinto served as Senior Counsel at the Center for WorkLife Law, where she was responsible for educating employers and their attorneys on the developing law of Family Responsibilities Discrimination. Ms. Pinto also has significant private practice experience. She represented employers on a nationwide basis in compliance reviews before the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs as well as the full range of employment matters in federal and state courts and before federal and state agencies.

Ms. Pinto is a past President of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, a trained mediator, and author of a number of articles and blog postings related to family responsibilities discrimination, general EEO issues, and OFCCP compliance matters.

Mickey Silberman, Shareholder with Fortney & Scott, LLC and Chair of the firm's Affirmative Action & Pay Equity Practice Group

Mickey is a Shareholder with Fortney & Scott, LLC and Chair of the firm's Affirmative Action & Pay Equity Practice Group. For more than 20 years, Mickey has represented management in all areas of employment law, specializing in pay equity, OFCCP compliance and audit defense, affirmative action and EEO, and diversity and inclusion.

Mickey is recognized as a national expert in the areas of pay equity and systemic pay discrimination. He works closely with clients and a team of statisticians to prepare pay equity analyses both on a proactive basis and also in response to OFCCP and EEOC pay investigations and private pay litigation. Mickey regularly defends employers against claims of systemic pay discrimination. He also advises clients on pay system design and administration to identify and address often subtle or hidden barriers to pay equity.

In addition, Mickey annually has overseen the preparation of thousands of affirmative action plans for government contractors in all industries and across the country. He has directed the defense of hundreds of OFCCP audits, including many corporate management reviews. This high volume of audit defense keeps him on the "cutting edge" of OFCCP's rapidly evolving enforcement trends. He often is asked to step in to defend OFCCP audits and investigations "gone wrong" and has a strong track record achieving great results in those audits. In fact, in the last 1,000 audits Mickey has defended, he has obtained Letters of Compliance-the best possible audit outcome-in more than 99.5% of the audits.

Mickey spends much of his time counseling employers on complex "real world" issues relating to pay equity, EEO and diversity. In the area of Diversity & Inclusion, Mickey works closely with clients in the design and successful administration D&I programs. He develops creative diversity analytics that allow employers to see what is and isn't working in their programs and how to "move the needle" on diversity.

He also is the Co-chair of the Institute for Workplace Equality, a national employer association. Through his role with the Institute, he meets with OFCCP, EEOC and other federal agency national leadership to present the employer community's perspective on proposed laws and regulations and agency enforcement trends.

Mickey has been recognized by Chambers USA from 2014 to present as a leading Labor & Employment attorney in Colorado.

Kim Lupo, VP, Global Total Rewards, Nike Inc.

Kim Lupo has over twenty years of domestic and international total rewards experience in the areas of compensation & benefits strategy and design, plan cost and financing, and program implementation/communication. Extensive experience in executive compensation as well as equity compensation and merger & acquisition due diligence and integration.

As the VP, Global Total Rewards at Nike, Kim oversees all aspect of Nike’s $4B total rewards portfolio inclusive of executive and broad-based compensation, short & long-term incentives, global benefits, talent mobility, tax, & immigration. Prior to joining Nike, Kim served as the Vice President of Compensation & Performance Management at T-Mobile.

Brit Wittman, GM, Executive Compensation, Chevron

Brit Wittman, CCP, CECP, is part of a global team responsible for the design, implementation and administration of all fixed, variable and equity compensation programs for the 105,000+ employees of Intel.  Additionally, Brit is responsible for all executive compensation programs and the relationship with the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Intel in 2008, Brit was the Director of Executive Compensation for Dell, Inc.  Prior to Dell, Brit held similar positions at Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and AT&T Corp.

Brit is both a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the faculty for WorldatWork.  He has served as the Chairman of the WorldatWork Executive Rewards Advisory Board and is a former Board member of the National Center for Employee Ownership.  He is a frequent speaker at events for a variety of Compensation & Benefits organizations, such as: WorldatWork, Equilar, The Conference Board, NCEO, and GEO.

Nancy Romanyshyn, Director with Willis Towers Watson’s New York Rewards Practice

Nancy Romanyshyn is a Director with Willis Towers Watson’s New York Rewards Practice with over 18 years of experience. As a broad-based compensation consultant and project manager, Nancy provides a breadth of compensation expertise, leading projects in salary structure design and implementation, competitive pay analyses and market assessments, job documentation and job evaluation.

Nancy is also a leader in Willis Towers Watson’s Global Fair Pay team and a key member of the North America Inclusion & Diversity team. She helps clients to address compliance with new and emerging fair pay legislation, ensure rewards and talent management programs are fairly administered, meet employee and broader stakeholder expectations on fairness, and ensure organizations cultivate inclusive and diverse workforces. Her recent articles on include Back to the future for base pay and internal equity?, Living Up to US Pay Equity, Pay Equity vs Pay Equality and Why It Matters to Business, and Global Perspectives on the growing importance of pay equity and transparency.

Nancy has worked with clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, retail, pharmaceutical, insurance, energy, financial services, and manufacturing. Recent projects have included fair pay analyses, developing communications materials and speaking to Boards of Directors on fair pay, the development of a global salary architecture, global job documentation and career framework development, and sales incentive assessment and design.

Prior to working for Willis Towers Watson, Nancy was a Compensation Manager at a retail dinnerware firm where she designed and implemented compensation programs.

Nancy holds a B.A. in Psychology from Fairfield University and became a Certified Compensation Professional in 1995.

Brian Levine, Partner, Co-leader Workforce Strategy & Analytics, Mercer

Brian Levine, Partner, is co-leader of Mercer’s Workforce Strategy and Analytics practice and a fellow of Mercer’s research arm, the Workforce Sciences Institute. Brian has 20 years of consulting experience in workforce strategy and measurement, as well as extensive consulting experience leading analytic assessments of diversity, pay equity, and compensation alignment. He led the team that developed Mercer’s proprietary pay equity software. Areas of expertise include labor economics and econometrics/statistics.

Brian frequently publishes in the professional press and is a popular speaker. He is a primary contributor of Mercer’s “When Women Thrive, Businesses Thrive” research and has written articles for Workspan and WorldatWork Journal. Brian also presents often at WorldatWork and National Industry Liaison Group annual meetings, and has served as adjunct professor at New York University and Baruch College.

Brian received a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics, all from Cornell University.

Melissa Sharp Murdock, Director, External Affairs, WorldatWork

Melissa Murdock is WorldatWork's public affairs manager. She has over 10 years of experience advocating for employers in Washington, DC. Before joining WorldatWork, Murdock worked at the National Federation of Independent Business in their media department, and prior to that she served as a Commissioner Russell Redenbaugh's special assistant on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She has a J.D. from Catholic University, Columbus School of Law and a Bachelors of Arts degree in journalism and political science from The Ohio State University.

Jannice Koors, Senior Managing Director and Western Region President of Pearl Meyer

Jannice Koors is Senior Managing Director and Western Region President of Pearl Meyer. She has 30 years of experience in executive compensation and governance, and has consulted to companies of all sizes and industries. She advises company boards and management teams on all aspects of executive and director compensation design, performance measure selection and calibration, and related corporate governance issues. She is also responsible for the Firm’s annual Director Compensation Study, published in conjunction with the NACD.

A noted expert in the field, she is a frequent author and speaker regarding executive and director compensation issues. Ms. Koors is an NACD Governance Fellow, and serves as faculty for many of their education programs. In 2018, she was named for the eleventh time to the NACD D100 list of most influential people in corporate governance.

Ms. Koors received her AB from Wellesley College, and is a member of the Wellesley College Business Leadership Council. She is on the Board of Directors for the Big Shoulders Fund of Chicago and the Advisory Board of the Berger Institute at Claremont McKenna College.