Bryan Ortwein is a Director in Willis Towers Watson’s Milwaukee office. He specializes in serving as advisor to management and Compensation Committees on executive total rewards and human resource issues for numerous clients throughout a variety of industries.
He has extensive experience with privately-held and publicly-traded manufacturing organizations, as well as working with U.S. subsidiaries of non-U.S. owned companies.
Before joining Towers Watson in 1994, Bryan worked as a defined benefit consultant for another leading human resources consulting firm. Bryan’s principal focus is advising Compensation Committees and management on executive compensation matters. The majority of his assignments involve ongoing advisory work with senior management and outside directors to assess annual and long-term incentive plan designs, employment contracts, change-in-control agreements, executive perquisites and benefits, and outside director pay.
As part of his work with Towers Watson, Bryan has also worked on designing, communicating and modeling the cost of numerous pre-IPO compensation programs. Bryan graduated summa cum laude with a BBA from St. Norbert College and holds an MM in finance and international business from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Education
- MM in Finance and International Business from J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
- BBA from St. Norbert College
Bryan Ortwein is a Director in Willis Towers Watson’s Milwaukee office. He specializes in serving as advisor to management and Compensation Committees on executive total rewards and human resource issues for numerous clients throughout a variety of industries.
He has extensive experience with privately-held and publicly-traded manufacturing organizations, as well as working with U.S. subsidiaries of non-U.S. owned companies.
Before joining Towers Watson in 1994, Bryan worked as a defined benefit consultant for another leading human resources consulting firm. Bryan’s principal focus is advising Compensation Committees and management on executive compensation matters. The majority of his assignments involve ongoing advisory work with senior management and outside directors to assess annual and long-term incentive plan designs, employment contracts, change-in-control agreements, executive perquisites and benefits, and outside director pay.
As part of his work with Towers Watson, Bryan has also worked on designing, communicating and modeling the cost of numerous pre-IPO compensation programs. Bryan graduated summa cum laude with a BBA from St. Norbert College and holds an MM in finance and international business from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
