Sam Bricker

Senior Consultant

Sam joined Meridian as a consultant in 2019. He consults on a range of executive compensation matters including compensation strategies and pay philosophies, executive and director compensation benchmarking, short-term and long-term incentive plan designs, realized and realizable pay analyses, ISS pay-for-performance modeling and equity utilization reviews.

Additionally, he’s involved in research related to governance practices, the use of ESG metrics in incentive plans and executive change-in-control severance arrangements.

Sam works with clients across a wide range of industries, including technology, consumer services, capital goods and utilities.

He has a B.A. in Economics and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Recent Insights By Sam Bricker

2024 Meridian Corporate Governance and Incentive Design Survey

by Sam Bricker on September 26, 2024

Surveys

Meridian’s 2024 Corporate Governance and Incentive Design Survey offers insights into key board governance practices, compensation-related proxy disclosures, and annual and long-term incentive design practices of 200 large cap U.S. corporations (with median revenue of $25 billion and median market cap of $41 billion).

The Strategic Retention Advantage of Retirement Notice Periods

by Bob Romanchek and Sam Bricker on July 12, 2024

Thought Leadership

Retaining key talent is a top priority for boards.