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Startup C-Level Executive Salary, Equity and Severance Compensation Package

4/22/2023

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Three weeks ago, on Tuesday March 28, 2023, the executive career advancement website IvyExec published an article I wrote on Startup C-Level Executive Salary, Equity and Severance Compensation Package.

This new article offers contract terms to negotiate for executives senior executive looking to move up to C-level by joining a startup. Being a startup C-level executive can be rewarding in many ways. But taking that role has many risks too, so it is wise to go in with a job offer that protects you from the risks and ensures that if the startup succeeds, you will share financially in that success.

To help you negotiate your C-level job offer with the startup, this article discusses –
• Cash compensation expectations – base salary and bonus,
• Startup equity to seek in a funded vs unfunded startup,
• Huge tax opportunity of QSBS if you structure it right, and
• Severance triggers and package key terms to seek.

To see my full IvyExec career advancement website article, go to LINK: https://ivyexec.com/career-advice/2023/startup-c-level-executive-salary-equity-and-severance-compensation-package

Or on my website at https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/startup-c-level-executive-salary-equity-and-severance-compensation-package/

IvyExec hosts articles and webinars from experts in the career, leadership, and business spaces who wish to share their knowledge with our audience. In April 2021, I was invited to write for IvyExec since it seeks original content on the topics of career development, leadership, and business strategy as it applies to senior-level and C-Suite professionals. IvyExec blog posts and webinars are shared with its community of more than 2 million members on its website, in its newsletter, and on its social media channels. https://www.ivyexec.com/career-advice/write-for-us/ IvyExec claims a “Community of 2.5M+ Leaders”.

See also – https://www.ivyexec.com/

It is my hope that this article will be helpful to those offered or considering and offer for a C-level position in a startup company. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me at rob@attorneyadelson.com.
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Phantom Stock as Executive Compensation for Family Businesses

9/23/2021

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One week ago, on Wednesday September 1, 2021, the website Ivy Exec published under “Business Strategy” an article I wrote on “Phantom Stock as Executive Compensation for Family Businesses.”

​This new article is designed not only for C-level and senior executives, but even for many directors and mid-level executives, who currently work in a family business or are offered a position in a family business and received NO executive equity compensation because most family businesses do not issue equity to non-family members.

My article discusses the use of phantom stock as a mean to give the executive a substitute to equal for him or her all the benefits of stock, options or RSUs. This technique also benefits the family business by not only avoiding use of actual stock and offering a key executive recruitment / retention tool but also providing a technique where all payments are tax deductible.
The technique is highly beneficial to CEOs and senior executives because it not only gives him or her a meaningful stake in the growth of the company, but also offers the possibility for capital gains level taxation, plus a liquidity feature often missing in stock plans of private companies.
To see my full IvyExec Career Advice website article, go to LINK: https://www.ivyexec.com/career-advice/2021/phantom-stock-as-executive-compensation-for-family-businesses/
Or https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/phantom-stock-as-executive-compensation-for-family-businesses/
IvyExec hosts articles and webinars from experts in the career, leadership, and business spaces who wish to share their knowledge with our audience. In April 2021, I was invited to write for IvyExec since it seeks original content on the topics of career development, leadership, and business strategy as it applies to senior-level and C-Suite professionals. IvyExec blog posts and webinars are shared with its community of more than 2 million members on its website, in its newsletter, and on its social media channels. https://www.ivyexec.com/career-advice/write-for-us/
It is my hope that this article will be of benefit to C-level and senior executives who have the opportunity or should have the opportunity to gain an equity stake in the family businesses that their management skills and efforts or helping to build, so that you along with the family owners can share in the benefits of that company growth.
Family business owners do have good reason to avoid taking on minority owners, but that does not mean you, as the non-family executive, need to be deprived of the kind of equity or equity-like stake you would receive in a non-family business. My article suggests a way to do this — to the benefit of the non-family executive and the family business owners too. Feel free to tweet or share this article. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me.
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Phantom Stock Allows Executives to Get the Benefits of Equity Compensation from Family Businesses

9/11/2017

 
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On September 6, 2017, CEOWorld magazine published an article I wrote on “Getting the Benefits of Equity Compensation from Family Businesses through Phantom Stock.”This article was designed for CEOs, C-suite executives and other senior executives who currently work in a family business or are offered a position in a family business and receive now or are offered NO equity compensation because most family businesses do not issue equity to non-family members.

My article discusses the use of Phantom stock as a mean to give the executive a substitute to equal for him or her all the benefits that stock, options or RSUs would provide to the executive in a non-family business.

Techniques used in the past and offered to the reader can produce a true “win-win” by providing key benefits to the family business as well as to the CEO or other senior executive, including the following
  • For the Family Business: Creates key executive recruitment tool to offer stake in growth and effectively compete with equity offered by non-family businesses, plus “golden handcuffs” to retain the services of senior executives over the years
  • For the Family Business: Provides this tool with no usage of actual stock or options and no rights as stockholder of company
  • For the Family Business: All payments made under the plan are fully tax deductible to the family business.
  • For the Executive: Gives executive a meaningful stake in the growth of the business, a true share of what the executive achieves for the business
  • For the Executive: Provides a liquidity feature often missing in stock plans of private companies.
  • For the Executive: Phantom Stock Plans can be structured to replicate options or RSUs, and can also be structured to offers the possibility for capital gains level taxation, in after tax income achieved

My article includes a hypothetical example, where a 55-year-old executive is to take the CEO position as successor to the 75-year-old family CEO.  In this example, the successor CEO negotiates for the establishment of a phantom stock plan as a condition to taking the position.  The intention is that the successor CEO receive phantom stock under the phantom stock plan as an important part of his (her) executive compensation package and that the plan would continue after that to enable the successor CEO to use phantom stock to recruit other non-family senior executives to further bolster management of the family business.

To see my full CEOWorld magazine. article, go to LINK:  http://ceoworld.biz/2017/09/06/getting-the-benefits-of-equity-compensation-from-family-businesses-through-phantom-stock/
or my website:
https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/articles-section/getting-the-benefits-of-equity-compensation-from-family-businesses-through-phantom-stock/

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 (1) CEOs and senior executives working in family businesses, (2) CEOs and senior executives considering taking positions in family businesses, and (3) leaders of  family businesses seeking to recruit non-family members as the new CEO or other senior executives. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me, your executive employment lawyer, at radelson@engelschultz.com or call 617-875-8665.

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