Carine Schneider Carine Schneider is a Partner with the Equity Planner group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, focusing on stock plan design, implementation and administration. Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, Carine was the Leader of the Global Stock Plan Services group at Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Carine was also with Salomon Smith Barney where she assisted companies such as Bank of America, Microsoft, Ford and Westinghouse. Prior to Smith Barney she was the founding Executive Director of the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP). The NASPP currently has over 7,000 members with 32 chapters and is designed to provide stock plan professionals educational and networking opportunities and increase the professional standing of stock plan professionals. Prior to creating the NASPP, Carine was the Director of Customer Services for Corporate Management Solutions (now Transcentive) and was the Manager of Shareholder Relations at Oracle Corporation where she assisted in the initial public offering and managed all aspects of the company's various stock plans. In 1999, Ms. Schneider was a co-founder of the Global Equity Organization (GEO). She currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. Ms. Schneider was born in The Netherlands and speaks Dutch as well as English. She received her degree in Psychology and Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Santa Clara University Equity Professionals Certification Program. She is a member of GEO, NASPP, NCEO and the European Center of Employee Ownership. In addition, she is an invited member of the Advanced Share Studies Group in the United Kingdom. While at Smith Barney, she was registered Series 7 and Series 63. Workshop : Preparing Your Administrative Practices for Option Expensing