Partners

Thomas J. Kelly

Tom Kelly, Managing Director in the Charlotte office, joined Pearl Meyer & Partners in 2009. He has more than 15 years experience consulting on executive compensation programs at public and private companies throughout the world.

Mr. Kelly’s areas of expertise include incentive plan design and financial modeling; competitive assessment of compensation levels; utilization of stock-based incentives; proxy disclosure; and compensation issues related to business restructurings. He also has extensive experience with management compensation and with incentive plans for subsidiaries, joint ventures, privately-held companies, new business ventures and autonomous business units within existing corporations, as well as with policy issues raised by institutional investors and proxy advisory firms.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kelly was a consultant with Watson Wyatt and Towers Perrin. He holds an MBA from the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University and a B.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.