Member of the senior HR leadership team, responsible for leading the compensation, benefits, payroll and HR shared services centers of excellence. Provide strategic and consultative guidance to executive leadership on all total rewards programs and initiatives. Responsible for designing and implementing employee programs that reward and recognize high performance and align with the Company’s strategic objectives. Direct total rewards program spend in excess of $1.5B. Manage end to end HR processes with a focus on developing highly efficient, automated and scalable solutions.

Key Accomplishments:• Designed and implemented new “pay for performance” compensation programs that accelerated the transformation from an entitlement-based culture to one built on high performance and accountability. Introduced a differentiated annual merit program that rewards our top performers with higher salary increases. Designed a new broad based performance short term incentive compensation program, which provided a bonus opportunity to 85% of our employees, as compared to less than 15% under the prior compensation structure. • Contemporized the Company’s long term incentive programs by replacing a cash based performance award with performance restricted stock units to provide stronger management alignment with business objectives. • Launched a new enterprise-wide comprehensive wellness program (Wellness360) that provides employees with the tools and resources to help improve their overall physical, financial and emotional wellbeing. Key elements include a new wellness portal, personal health coaches, in-person and virtual wellness workshops attended by over 2,000 employees, 3,000 on-site health screenings and a walking challenge with over 6,000 participants. • As a member of the Company’s labor team, participated in strategy development and economic analysis.

Directed the strategic planning, design, implementation and communication of all corporate-wide benefit programs consistent with the organization’s strategies and objectives. Accomplishments include:• Created a tool to analyze the spans and layers of each operating unit, which was used to evaluate and improve organizational design, resulting in multi-million dollar compensation related savings. • Centralized the administration of the Company’s leaves of absence programs including implementation of a new leave of absence technological solution. Reduced leave hours by over 100,000 hours, representing $4M in annual lost time savings. • Redesigned and implemented the Company’s retirement program, which included freezing the cash balance pension plan and enhancing the Company’s 401(k) plan. • Led all benefits related merger and acquisition activities for the Bresnan acquisition, Optimum West divestiture, and AMC and MSG spin-offs, including due diligence, contract term negotiations, financial analysis and evaluation of benefit plan design. Designed new benefit plans for Madison Square Garden and AMC Networks as a result of spin-offs into separate publicly traded companies.• On an annual basis, evaluated the Company’s benefit programs and developed design alternatives that mitigated the annual increases in costs while continuing to offer a benefits program that meets the needs of our employees. • Implemented a new retirement plan record-keeper for the Company’s qualified and non-qualified defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans. The implementation included consolidating multiple 401(k) plans resulting in significantly lower administrative costs for the Company and employees.• Designed and implemented a total rewards online portal that provides employees with personalized real time benefits and compensation information.

Account executive responsible for overseeing employee benefit consulting and administrative services for various corporate, not-for-profit, governmental, union and multi-employer organizations. Managed the P&L for a $3M book of business with a focus on maintaining high profitability and growth. Regularly consulted with executive leaders and retirement boards on funding and contribution strategies to meet their respective strategic and financial objectives. Deep experience with designing and valuing defined benefit and defined contribution retirement programs, collective bargaining negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, plan freezes and terminations.