Fred Whittlesey, MBA, CEP, CCP, CECP — Compensation Venture Group, SPC
Areas of Expertise: Benefits & Compensation
Fred Whittlesey, Principal Consultant of Compensation Venture Group, SPC, has been providing expert witness and litigation support services for over 35 years. His globally-recognized expertise in executive compensation, incentive compensation, equity compensation, and employment agreements has provided valuable support in a variety of legal cases. The highly technical and complex nature of executive and equity compensation has created the need for coaching and educating legal counsel on technical points and helping identify key issues in cases.
He has issued opinions on the reasonableness of compensation, loss of earnings, federal and state tax challenges, change-in-control provisions (golden parachutes), interpretation of employment and compensation agreements, and opposing experts' methodologies. He has supported both defendants and plaintiffs, and clients have included corporate entities, classes, individual executives, and law firms.
Fred has experience in litigation with both public and private corporations as well as LLCs.