Presented By:
Bryan Williamson,
Compensation Consultant
Bryan is an experienced compensation professional with over twenty years of experience. He specializes in compensation solutions that address an organization’s entire employee base. His career began in Tampa and flourished while living in Dallas, Atlanta, Fort Collins and Flagstaff. He has been an external consultant for Mercer Human Resources Consulting, and Towers Watson. He has also been the internal compensation expert for several global companies, and has helped numerous independent clients. Bryan worked on creative compensation solutions for Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Dell, Compaq, Salomon Brothers and USAA Federal Savings Bank.
Bryan has an MBA from the University of South Florida and a BA from the University of Florida. He is a Certified Compensation Professional with World at Work (a professional association) and regularly reviews articles for various World at Work publications.
He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and has lead hikes for The Sierra Club and other groups for years. Additionally he is co-founder of True Nature, an organization that helps people realize and align with their true nature.
Moderated By:
Carol Frank
Managing Director, SDR Ventures
The
founder of three multi-million dollar pet companies, Carol is now a
Managing Director at SDR Ventures, a Denver-based Investment Bank where
she specializes in helping pet industry entrepreneurs with mergers,
acquisitions and capital raises. She is also a principal in BirdsEye
Consulting, which helps pet industry entrepreneurs with sales channel
strategy, market research, and licensing, as well as recruiting
executive talent for pet product companies.
She is the author of the book, Do As I Say, Not As I Did! Gaining Wisdom
in Business Through The Mistakes of Highly Successful People. Carol’s
credentials include an MBA from Southern Methodist University and a BBA
from the University of Texas in Austin. She began her career as a CPA
with Ernst & Young and also spent three years as an executive
recruiter for Robert Half International. Over the years, Carol has
served in leadership roles within the pet industry and on the board of
more than a dozen non-profit and business organizations, including The
Pet Industry Distributor Association, The Pet Care Trust, and The Pet
Industry Joint Advisory Council.