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Aalap H. Shah

Managing Director
Philadelphia

Expertise

  • Fostering executive and employee engagement through incentive design
  • Selecting performance metrics and establishing goals that align to business strategy and culture
  • Special circumstance compensation design - IPO, spin-off, and M&A
  • Developing compensation structures for PE/VC-backed portfolio companies (public or private)
  • Navigating relationship between boards and management to foster effective decision making within the context of superior corporate governance

Education

  • BS, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

"Looking at your leadership team—what are the things that motivate each individual and how do you structure a compensation program that unlocks that?"

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Commitment To Clients

Organizations create and sustain their competitive advantage by offering a distinctive value proposition to both their customers and investors. That value proposition manifests itself in various ways—products and services, the brand, operational efficiencies, and so on. My responsibility is to craft unique compensation structures, within the context of effective corporate governance, that guarantee your organization’s people strategy will be a competitive advantage. I do this by partnering with you to dive deep and think creatively.

Biography

Aalap Shah is a managing director at Pearl Meyer. With more than 20 years of experience, Aalap advises public and privately-held companies on executive compensation issues, with focus on pay governance, pay-for-performance alignment, and incentive plan design. Of particular interest is the intersection between business strategy, people strategy, and compensation strategy; believing alignment of all three is required to design effective programs.

Aalap advises clients in a variety of industries, including high-tech, healthcare, financial services, consumer products, retail, manufacturing, real estate, and media. He also consults on special compensation programs for IPO and merger & acquisition transactions.

Prior to joining Pearl Meyer in 2006, Aalap was with Mercer Human Resource Consulting, where he specialized in executive remuneration advisory services.

Aalap holds a bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Labor Relations with a concentration in International Human Resource Management from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

Publications and Presentations

Webcast
Aalap Shah
Greg Stoeckel
May 2022

How Talent Concerns Are Changing the Use of Equity

How to balance the need for talent attraction and retention with the long-range consequences of expanded equity use.

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Research Report
Pete Lupo
Aalap Shah
April 2022

Trends in Granting Equity

Survey data from 187 companies on how they are treating equity in response to pressures of executive retention, inflation, and market volatility.

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Webcast
Aalap Shah
Kimberly Neil
December 2021

Organizational Health: The Common Thread in the 2022 Compensation Committee Agenda

A preview of Pearl Meyer’s annual Top Five topics for the compensation committee in the coming year.

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Video
Aalap Shah
October 2020

Pre-IPO Compensation: Balancing Market Data with the Magic of a Start-Up

How to create a compensation program that is public company-compliant, but doesn't lose the innovative essence of the organization.

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A decline in share prices creates challenges in the current equity grant cycle. Our data show how biotech companies are making adjustments.

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The Data Confirm It: Director Service is Changing

New data on director compensation and board composition point to a year-over-year decrease in TDC and two emerging trends.

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Looking Ahead to Executive Pay Practices in 2023: Banking Edition

Survey results from 58 public and private bank institutions outlining their expectations for executive compensation programs in 2023.

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