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Wes Hart

Managing Director
Houston

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Expertise

  • Executive Compensation
  • Incentive Plan Design
  • Competitive Pay and Performance Assessment
  • Energy Sector Companies
  • Healthcare Industry

Education

  • BS, University of Oklahoma
  • MS, Southern Methodist University
  • MBA, University of Chicago

Get in touch with Wes

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Commitment To Clients

My clients span a number of industries and they each face a wide variety of challenges, including the retention and motivation of key managerial talent. They do, however, all share the desire to properly align their executive compensation programs with their long-term business strategy. While realizing that the pressure from outside influences can be intense, my role is to help my clients distinguish between what may be considered a best practice and what will actually work best for their unique situation.

Biography

Wes Hart is a managing director in the Houston office of Pearl Meyer. He has over 20 years of experience advising clients in the assessment and development of executive compensation programs, including competitive pay and performance analyses and extensive experience in the design of annual, long-term, and other incentive plans. Wes has performed work for clients in a wide variety of industries with a focus on the broad energy, financial services, and healthcare sectors.

Prior to joining Pearl Meyer, Wes was a manager in the executive compensation practice at Buck Consultants and held positions at Mercer Human Resource Consulting and the KPMG Compensation and Benefits Group.

Wes has an MBA in Finance and Behavioral Science from the University of Chicago, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Summa Cum Laude. He is a member of WorldatWork and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) and is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Texas Tri-cities Chapter (Houston, Austin, and San Antonio) of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Publications and Presentations

Advisor Blog
Wes Hart
April 2020

What’s Happening This Spring with Executive Compensation in the Oil & Gas Industry

The economic shocks over recent weeks has accelerated the rate and severity of executive compensation program change.

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Advisor Blog
Wes Hart
April 2019

How and Why Not-For-Profit Organizations Should Review Compensation Consultant Independence

The independence of an organization’s advisor can help protect the entity in the event of an IRS challenge to “compensation reasonableness.”

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Article
Wes Hart
Malcolm Adkins
September 2018

Findings in Gender Pay Inequality and Opportunity Disparity among CFOs at Russell 3000 Companies

The role for public company CFOs is generally consistent, making the position a good study group for investigating executive pay parity issues.

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A Look Back at the FTSE 350 and Executive Compensation in 2020

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

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Applying Method to the Madness: Tools for Managing 2020 Payouts and Setting 2021 Target Compensation

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