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Aalap H. Shah

Managing Director
New York

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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 in the New York office of Pearl Meyer. With more than 15 years of experience, Mr. Shah 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.

Mr. Shah 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, Mr. Shah was with Mercer Human Resource Consulting, where he specialized in executive remuneration advisory services.

Mr. Shah 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

Video
Aalap Shah
October 2020

Pre-IPO Compensation: Managing Internal and External Parity and the Influence of Culture

Companies going public have to balance cultural and governance considerations when developing their future executive compensation practices.

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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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Webcast
Aalap Shah
September 2019

ESG: Building Shareholder-Focused Incentive Plans for a New Generation of Investors

Investors and the public at large are increasingly pressuring organizations to expand performance criteria beyond traditional financial yardsticks.

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Presentation
Aalap Shah
June 2019

Building Shareholder-Focused Incentive Plans for a New Generation of Investor

Institutional investors are now focusing on non-financial drivers of long-term value creation. Is it time to include these drivers in incentive compensation?

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Examining the UK experience with COVID-19, corporate performance, and CEO remuneration—and expectations for 2021.

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