Life Sciences Edition
Executive Compensation:
Insights from the 2014 CompStudy Survey
of Venture-Backed Companies
LIFE SCIENCES EDITION
Today’s
moderator
Bryan Pearce
Global Leader | EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ and
Venture Capital
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Today’s
presenters
Tom Flynn
Erik R. Lundh
SV Life Sciences
Managing Partner
Park Square
Managing Partner
Rosemary Reilly
Noam Wasserman
WilmerHale
Partner
Harvard Business School
Associate Professor,
Tukman Faculty Fellow
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William P. Murphy
Ernst & Young
Principal
Kimberly Wethly
WilmerHale
Partner
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Today’s
agenda
•
CompStudy overview
•
Current Founder’s Dilemmas research
•
2014 survey – company profiles
•
Summary compensation data
•
CEO compensation review
•
Hot topics and current trends
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CompStudy
Overview
CompStudy.com
• All reporting now done on our online, fully interactive
platform, located at CompStudy.com.
• Participants in the annual survey receive free,
year-long access to the reports. Access is also available for
purchase
• New features for 2014:
 Ability to filter Board of Directors
data by company type and size
 More granular industry
categorizations
 Enhanced company Scorecards
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CompStudy
Overview
Technology Survey
2000
2014
211 cos.
534 cos.
The CompStudy.com Survey
Data collected in every survey includes:
• Cash compensation and equity
• Founding team
• Financing history
• Company size
Life Sciences Survey
• Products/revenue
2002
• Equity programs
168 cos.
2014
222 cos.
• Executive backgrounds
• Board of directors
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Today’s
agenda
•
CompStudy overview
•
Current Founder’s Dilemmas research
•
2014 survey – company profiles
•
Summary compensation data
•
CEO compensation review
•
Hot topics and current trends
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“Most”companies fail. It’s an unsettling
fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but
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Detailed table of contents
Chapter 1
Self-assessment survey
“When to Leap” video
• Other awesome stuff 
NoamWasserman.com
Audience
Poll
What is your company’s outlook
on the economy over the next
12-18 months:
A. Things are good and getting better
B. Still receiving mixed signals from the market
C. Growing increasingly concerned about a
downturn
Webinar poll results:
A. 52% B. 41% C. 7%
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Today’s
agenda
•
CompStudy overview
•
Current Founder’s Dilemmas research
•
2014 survey – company profiles
•
Summary compensation data
•
CEO compensation review
•
Hot topics and current trends
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2014 Survey – Company Profiles
Institutional rounds raised
Headcount
This is the first year companies with no
institutional money raised have comprised
more than 10% of the study cohort
There were more companies with 1-20 FTEs
this year; 70.6% vs 61.6% last year
% respondents in this range
% respondents in this range
Number of rounds
Number of full time employees
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2014 Survey – Company Profiles
Geography
% respondents in this range
Revenue
Business Segments
% respondents in this range
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2014 Survey – Company Profiles
Founder status - % of role held by founders vs. non-founders
Participants had essentially the same founder/non-founder split by position profile as in 2013
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Audience
Poll
What change do you anticipate for
base salaries next year?
A. Decrease greater than 5%
B. Decrease up to 5%
C. No change
D. Increase up to 5%
E. Increase over 5%
Webinar poll results:
A. 0%
B. 0%
C. 13%
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D. 78%
E. 9%
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Today’s
agenda
•
CompStudy overview
•
Current Founder’s Dilemmas research
•
2014 survey – company profiles
•
Summary compensation data
•
CEO compensation review
•
Hot topics and current trends
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Compensation data
Founder cash compensation
*Fewer positions shown due to lack of founders in certain roles
Founder CEO salaries were up
3.5%, in line with the 3.3%
increase for their non-founder
peers
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CompStudy Overview
Percentage growth in year-over-year non-founder total target cash compensation
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Compensation data
Cash compensation – non-founders, 2013 and 2014
Non-founder total target cash compensation was up 4.2% in 2014, up from the 3% increase between
2012 and 2013. It also beat out non-founder CEOs at technology companies, whose cash
compensation increased 3% in 2014.
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Compensation data
Bonus as a percentage of base salaries – non-founders
On average in 2013, non-founder executives received 69.7% of their target bonuses, up slightly from
67.8% in 2012, and above the historical average of 66%.
% of base salary
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Compensation data
Equity holdings – non-founder executives
Current equity - % of fully diluted shares
Equity at hire - % of fully diluted shares
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Audience
Poll
What percentage of the equity in your
company is reserved for management,
directors and employees?
A. Less than 10%
B. 11 – 15%
C. 16 – 20%
D. 21 – 25%
E. More than 25%
Webinar poll results:
A. 28% B. 38% C. 28%
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D. 0%
E. 7%
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Compensation data
Equity holdings – type of equity vehicles used
% of equity grants given by vehicle type
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Compensation data
Percentage of non-founder executives eligible for severance
67.5% of non-founder CEOs surveyed had some sort of severance package, down from the
survey’s historical average of 73%.
No other position exceeded 50% participation.
% eligible for severance
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Compensation data
Length of severance packages granted (months)
As the median numbers suggest, the length of nearly every severance
package granted is a multiple of three months
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Compensation data
Boards of directors – average composition
% of total board seats
Directors
Chairpersons
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Compensation data
External board members – current equity
% in this range
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Today’s
agenda
•
CompStudy overview
•
Current Founder’s Dilemmas research
•
2014 survey – company profiles
•
Summary compensation data
•
CEO compensation review
•
Hot topics and current trends
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CEO compensation review
Non-founder CEO base (1,000s USD)
CEO salaries are most highly correlated with the number of rounds raised and headcount for the
median CEO. At the top end, company size and maturity appear to have little effect on cash comp.
By number of financing rounds raised
By number of full time employees
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CEO compensation review
Non-founder CEO current equity (% of fully diluted shares)
Headcount is a slightly better predictor of non-founder CEO equity; there is a lot of variability in the
data when sliced by financing status. This is partly attributable to difference between therapeutics
companies and all others in the survey; more filters can be applied at CompStudy.com
By number of financing rounds raised
By number of full time employees
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Today’s
agenda
•
CompStudy overview
•
Current Founder’s Dilemmas research
•
2014 survey – company profiles
•
Summary compensation data
•
CEO compensation review
•
Hot topics and current trends
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Hot topics
and current
trends
• Recruiting and retaining top talent in
an increasingly competitive market
- Founder transitions
- Recruiting dynamics
- Retention issues
• The impact of a hot IPO market on team
dynamics and compensation
• Trends in equity vehicles being used, and
the impact on compensation at exit
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Recap
•
1-minute recap from each panelist
For more information, please visit
www.compstudy.com.
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