On September 7, 2019, CEOWorld magazine published an article I wrote on “CFO Employment Contract – Terms and Negotiations” The magazine advised me that I can use “Featured in the CEOWORLD magazine” and the CEOWORLD “Logo” on my website. The editor has  also advised that I can add CEOWORLD magazine in my LinkedIn profile’s “Experience Section” as an “Opinion Columnist.” and authority in the field. ​

This article is designed for designed for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs)

• Hired to focus on external financial matters such as fundraising, IPO or company sale, interfacing with the Board of Directors, or

• Hired to focus on internal accounting and finance operations, and

• Who also take on the role of chief operating officer (COO) as well, Chief Operating Officers (COOs) hired to oversee other areas of company operations, including production, marketing and sales, and research and development.

The article covers delineation of responsibilities and resources to do the job, terms to seek in your cash executive compensation package, the various forms of equity to seek depending on the position of the company, terms to include in severance and suggestions on both job offers and re-negotiation of executive contract terms.
To see my full CEOWorld magazine. article, go to my website at
https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/cfo-employment-contract-terms-and-negotiations

With more than 12.4+ million-page views, CEOWORLD magazine is the world’s leading business magazine written strictly for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, senior management executives, business leaders, and high net worth individuals worldwide.

It is my hope that this article will be helpful to CFOs or CFOs who also take on the COO role with need to review the job offer or employment contract including special circumstances included in the position. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me at radelson@engelschultz.com.

Executive employment agreements and equity arrangements are the “golden keys” that unlock “golden handcuffs”. Signing bonuses serve as the key to open the door to hiring. Vesting options, bonuses and other “golden handcuff” benefits make executives more reluctant to leave their current position for a new one. However, signing bonuses are often used as a tool of persuasion – urging an executive to sign with a new company. Signing bonuses are crucial when accompanying a job offer that has a lower salary than an executive wants.

CEO, Maria Leone* sought out the counsel of Attorney Robert Adelson who helped her negotiate an increased signing bonus with a new firm that expressed interest in hiring her. Maria Leone was currently working as a CEO at a NY ad agency where she made a comfortable salary with foreseeable bonuses and vesting options, however when a young, rising agency (we will call Marketing X*) expressed interest with a higher salary Maria grew interested. Since the Marketing X was still young, and the salary the company was offering was not substantially higher Maria wanted to explore her options and negotiate her executive contract terms.

On May 28, 2019, CEOWorld magazine published an article I wrote on “Negotiating Your COO Employment Agreement” The magazine advised me that I can use “Featured in the CEOWOLRD magazine” and the CEOWORLD “Logo” on my website.
 
This article is designed for Chief Operating Officers (COOs) hired to oversee all areas of company operations, including production, marketing and sales, and research and development.  My article also recognizes that a COO can also be hired for further specific missions including any of the following:

• To fill a specific need in an operational area or line of business, e.g. to turnaround a failing operation,
• To expand company operations into a new market,
• To fill a gap in the CEO’s knowledge, expertise, skills, management style or experience, and thus complement the CEO,
• To meet the company need for succession planning when the CEO is about to retire where the Board wants to hire a COO to prepare him or her to be the successor CEO
• Conversely, to hire the COO to mentor a first-time founder-CEO where  the COO would likely be an industry veteran with wisdom and a business relationship network who can develop both the CEO and assist the scale up of the company to the next level or to achieve a liquidity event, or
• To hire the COO to mentor an inexperienced family-member CEO to aid that family member to grow into the job and responsibilities expected of him or her.

My article discusses delineation of your duties, responsibilities, authority and reporting and including in those special circumstances listed above.  My article also offers suggestions for your COO offer letter or employment contract to include key executive employment terms on which you rely to take the job.

My article next discusses what to seek in getting the right COO Executive Compensation Package, and concludes with a discussion of severance rights to enable you to protect the terms of your bargain reached with the company.

To see my full CEOWorld magazine. article, go to LINK:  https://ceoworld.biz/2019/05/28/negotiating-your-coo-employment-agreement/
Or my website at https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/negotiating-your-coo-employment-agreement/
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With more than 12.4+ million-page views, CEOWORLD magazine is the world’s leading business magazine written strictly for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, senior management executives, business leaders, and high net worth individuals worldwide.

With the editor’s email to me of May 28, 2019, advising me of publication, I was also advised that I can add CEOWORLD magazine in my LinkedIn profile’s “Experience Section” as an “Opinion Columnist.”  See https://ceoworld.biz/author/robert-adelson/

It is my hope that this article will be helpful to senior executives in technology, life sciences and other fields and industries, who are being recruited and have now, or anticipate soon receiving, an attractive offer to serve as COO, the chief operating officer with need to review the job offer or executive employment contract including special circumstances included in the position. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me at radelson@engelschultz.com.

On December 29, 2018, CEOWorld magazine published an article I wrote on “Essential Employment Contract Terms for Medical Device and Biotechnology Executives”    The magazine advised me that I can use “Featured in the CEOWOLRD magazine” and the CEOWORLD “Logo” on my website. 
This article was designed for CEOs and other C-Suite, VPs or other senior executives in Medical Device, Biotechnology and other life science companies who, when negotiating a new job offer or employment contract or terms of executive compensation, need to give attention to essential employment terms in these fast growing and changing industries.

​My article indicates how in these negotiations, the executive should seek key executive employment terms in the following important areas:

• Signing bonus to at least make you whole for anything you are giving up,
• Performance targets geared to your type and stage of life science company and its exit goals,
• Equity in scope and form matched to your position, stage of company and potential tax issues
• Relocation and other expenses (e.g. maintaining your M.D. license) again to keep you whole when you change companies.

The article also discusses executive severance terms and triggers for your protection in case changes necessitate you to change companies in the future.
To see my full CEOWorld magazine. article, go to

LINK:  https://ceoworld.biz/2018/12/29/essential-employment-contract-terms-for-medical-device-and-biotechnology-executives/
Or on my website
https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/essential-employment-contract-terms-for-medical-device-and-biotechnology-executives/
With more than 12.4+ million page views, CEOWORLD magazine is the world’s leading business magazine written strictly for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, senior management executives, business leaders, and high net worth individuals worldwide.

It is my hope that this article will be helpful to CEOs and other senior executives in the medical device, biotechnology or other life science industries who are negotiating new executive job offers, employment contracts or executive compensation packages and should pay attention to the essential contract terms discussed in my article. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me at radelson@engelschultz.com.

​Last Tuesday, on October 30, 2018, CEOWorld magazine published an article I wrote on “Negotiating the Right Executive Compensation Package for Yourself”    The magazine advised me that I can use “Featured in the CEOWOLRD magazine” and the CEOWORLD “Logo” on my website.

This article was designed for CEOs and other C-Suite, VPs or other senior executives who when negotiating a new executive job offer or employment contract need to give attention to the executive compensation package that it contains all the key features to fully compensate the CEO or senior executive for the critical services he or she provides to the company and its owners.

My article further indicates how in these negotiations, the executive should seek to accomplish several important and distinct goals, including to

• Secure your own basic financial needs,
• Secure a highly valuable equity stake in the company for yourself,
• Negotiate the key terms for equity or phantom stock, and
• Create the right executive bonus plan and other incentives that align with the company for growth.

The article also discusses how the CEO or senior executive can use these goals and means of achieving them to strengthen his or her position at the company.  These negotiations can serve to demonstrate to your new employer your abilities as a skilled executive capable of managing complex situations that affect himself or herself directly.

To see my full CEOWorld magazine. article, go to LINK:  https://ceoworld.biz/2018/10/30/negotiating-the-right-executive-compensation-package-for-yourself/
Or on my website
https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/negotiating-executive-compensation-package/

With more than 12.4+ million page views, CEOWORLD magazine is the world’s leading business magazine written strictly for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, senior management executives, business leaders, and high net worth individuals worldwide.

It is my hope that this article will be helpful to CEOs and other senior executives who are negotiating the important executive compensation package and equity terms of a new job offer or renegotiation of executive contract terms with your current job or under an executive retention agreement if your company is in play. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me at radelson@engelschultz.com.
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