Executive Compensation & Team Composition: Attracting and Retaining the Best and Brightest to Your Team
LIFE SCIENCES EDITION Today’s Bryan Pearce Moderator Global Leader EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ and Venture Capital
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Martha Cook Josh Fox Timothy Noyes EY WilmerHale Proteon Therapeutics Americas Human Capital IPO & Partner President & Chief Executive Southeast Human Capital Officer Practice Leader
Bruce Rychlik Noam Wasserman Park Square Harvard Business School Managing Partner Associate Professor U of Southern California Visiting Professor
Presented by Park Square, WilmerHale and EY www.compstudy.com | 3 Today’s Intro/CompStudy Overview Agenda Current Founder’s Dilemmas Research
Team Composition
Key Roles • Chief Executive Officer • Chief Scientific Officer • Chief Business Officer • Chief Financial Officer • Outside Director & Advisors
Attraction & Retention Tools
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Founding team 2015 900 1,800 Financing history Company size All Time Responses Products/revenue 25,000+ executives Equity programs Executive backgrounds Life Sciences Survey Annual Responses Board of directors
2002 All Time Responses 10,000+ executives 500 700
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Institutional Rounds Raised Headcount Business Segments Respondent companies were slightly later Companies cut by headcount are % respondents in this range stage this year. 30%+ have raised more than 4 distributed approximately the same rounds vs. <25% last year as they were in the 2014 survey.
% respondents in this range % respondents in this range
Revenue Geography
% respondents in this range % respondents in this range
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CORE DILEMMAS
Founding
Preparing Building New-Venture Yourself the Team Hiring Accelerating Exiting Y Y Y Y Y
CORE CO- HIRES INVESTORS, ALL OF THE FOUNDER FOUNDERS SUCCESSORS ABOVE Formal Titles at Time of Founding
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0% Chair CEO CFO CTO COO VP Other Idea people Non-idea people The Founder’s Dilemmas, Figure 5.2 Early: Top-heavy Management Teams
2-founder teams 3-founder teams Top-heavy Even Pyramid
The Founder’s Dilemmas, Figure 5.1 Getting Much More Pyramidal: Employees per Executive 9.0 9.0 7.6 8.0
7.0 6.0 6.0
5.0 4.3
4.0
3.0 2.5
2.0
1.0
0.0 After A-round After B-round After C-round After D-round After E-round
The Founder’s Dilemmas, Figure 8.3 Hires with Gray Hair (% of C-level Hires with Prior Senior Experience in Role)
60.9%
56.3% 53.9% 52.7%
41.7%
Pre-funding After A-round After B-round After C-round After D-round
The Founder’s Dilemmas, Figure 8.4 Compensation Differentiation by Function (bonus/salary for nonfounders)
49%
37%
29% 29%
22% 23% 23% 19%
CEO COO CTO CFO VP-Sales VP-Eng. VP-BD VP-Mktg.
The Founder’s Dilemmas, Figure 8.6 Powerful C-Level Equity Incentives
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3
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0 CEO COO CTO CFO VP-Sales VP-Eng. VP-BD VP-Mktg. Cash comp vs. VP-Mktg. Equity stake vs. VP-Mktg.
The Founder’s Dilemmas, Figure 8.7 HIRING TRADEOFFS
Quality of Work
Burn Rate
Formalization Kaplan-Meier survival estimate 95%, pointwise confidence band shown
1 11 1.00 22 33 18 79 165 253 35 14 2 0.75 3 6 3 2 3 4 4 4 0.50 5 3 2
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0.00 0 50 100 l i ti
Post-Succession Role of Replaced Founder-CEO
80% 70% VP or below 60% 50% Other C-level 40% 30% COO / Pres. 20% 10% CTO 0% Left immediately Stayed as executive
The Founder’s Dilemmas, Chapter 10 Key Roles Chief Executive CEO Officer
Chief Scientific CSO Officer
Chief Business CBO Officer
Chief Financial CFO Officer
Outside Director DIR & Advisors
Presented by Park Square, WilmerHale and EY www.compstudy.com | 19 Primary charter of the CEO role is to be CEO responsible for all strategic and tactical aspects Chief Executive of the management of the company Officer
• Founder transition
• When to hire
• Board decision
• How does role evolve as company matures
• First timer vs. experienced
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Non-Founder CEO Pay – by Rounds Raised
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• When to hire
• Founder transition
• Developing underlying science vs. applying underlying science
• When to hire Chief Medical Officer
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Non-Founder CSO Pay – by Rounds Raised
Presented by Park Square, WilmerHale and EY www.compstudy.com | 23 Primary charter of the CBO role is to be in charge CBO of the BD strategy, partnering, in- and out- Chief Business licensing, collaboration agreements, non-dilutive Officer financing, and sometimes corporate development/M&A
• When to hire
• First timer vs. documented track record
• Why are you hiring: in-license/out- license/discovery partnerships/etc.
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Non-Founder CBO Pay – by Rounds Raised
Presented by Park Square, WilmerHale and EY www.compstudy.com | 25 Primary charter of the CFO role is to provide CFO fund-raising support, financial leadership, Chief Financial administrative, and operational discipline and Officer structure for the company in support of scaling operations
• When to hire
• First time vs. experienced
• Functional strength in accounting vs. transactional vs. operational
• Public company/IPO experience
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Non-Founder CFO Pay – by Rounds Raised
Presented by Park Square, WilmerHale and EY www.compstudy.com | 27 • When to bring in outsiders DIR • Transition from private to public Outside Directors • Domain expertise vs. functional expertise vs. industry contacts
• Profiles: financial, clinical, commercial
• Sitting executive vs. professional board member
• How to pay (equity vs. cash)
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% respondents in this range
Equity ranges
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Percentage growth in year-over-year non-founder total target cash compensation
Presented by Park Square, WilmerHale and EY www.compstudy.com | 30 Building a Sources of Talent: Winning Team • Putting the band together
• Team referrals/board referrals
• Strangers
Key Considerations:
• What are the top 4 senior roles on your team; how does that list evolve over time
• Domain expertise vs. general purpose, best athlete
• First time vs. been in role before
• Small vs. large company experience
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Equity, Bonus, Severance
Non- Financial Career Factors
Focus
Presented by Park Square, WilmerHale and EY www.compstudy.com | 32 Attraction & • Equity vehicles used Retention Tools • Vesting (time based vs. performance)
Equity • Accelerated vesting/change of control • Dilution
• Annual equity grants • Offsetting existing equity holdings at time of hire
• Liquidating equity
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Bonus • Guaranteed? Considerations • Individual vs. company performance
• Annual increases
• Sign-on bonus
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Severance
% Eligible for Severance
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