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David E. Seitz

Managing Director
Dallas

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Expertise

  • Executive Compensation Strategy
  • Long-Term Incentive Design/Performance Metrics
  • Business Restructurings (IPO, Spin-off, M&A)
  • Outside Director Compensation
  • Latin America Compensation

Education

  • BS, University of Illinois
  • MBA, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management

Get in touch with David

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Commitment To Clients

As a trusted advisor to boards and management teams, I bring a deep understanding of compensation and financial analysis, benchmarking, and plan design to the table and help my clients effectively link compensation plans with their long-term business and leadership strategy. I approach each client relationship with candor and confidence and work to provide balanced and independent advice that can create a competitive advantage for my clients.

Biography

David Seitz is a managing director at Pearl Meyer. He has over 30 years’ experience in executive compensation consulting and particular expertise in long-term incentive plan design. Additional areas of concentration include total compensation strategy, incentive performance metrics, executive retirement, and global compensation, among others.

David has worked with companies across all industries, with specific focus on financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and energy. He has helped develop the executive compensation strategy for numerous types of significant business change, such as reorganizations, turn-arounds, IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions. David has extensive experience with private companies of all forms including family and private equity. He has also assisted many companies based in Latin America with executive compensation.

Prior to joining Pearl Meyer, David held positions as director of executive compensation at Willis Towers Watson, where he served as a client liaison in Latin America and created the firm’s U.S. long-term incentive survey. He also served as a compensation consultant with Hewitt Associates, where he consulted with U.S. clients and managed the firm’s U.S. executive compensation database. He also spent two years in the U.K. and helped launch the firm’s U.K. database.

David holds a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Publications and Presentations

Advisor Blog
David Seitz
June 2019

Manna from Heaven: The Complexity and Confusion with LTIPs

How companies can improve the performance of their long-term incentive plans with simpler design and better communication.

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Webcast
David Seitz
Tim Dupuis
August 2018

The "Seven Deadly Sins" of Executive Pay Analysis

We review some of the most common issues with executive pay data and analysis. 

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Article
Western Banker Magazine
David Seitz
February 2018

An Action Plan for the Next Dodd-Frank Executive Compensation Rules

Dodd-Frank hasn’t gone away; here are five executive pay regulations that banks should keep on their radar.

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Research Report
David Seitz
December 2017

Fintech Compensation: Evaluating and Rewarding Innovation in Banking

Download this survey summary for a look at how banks are encouraging and compensating for innovation.

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