Daniel M. Wetzel Dan Wetzel is the Southern California Practice Leader for Executive Pay in the Compensation Consulting Practice of Watson Wyatt's Human Capital Practice. Located in Los Angeles, he performs assignments for clients in the areas of executive compensation, broad-based employee pay, and sales compensation, focusing on the development of incentive compensation programs which meet strategic objectives. Other areas of consulting include: employment contracts and change of control provisions, salary administration, reasonableness of compensation, performance management, and related practice areas. Dan has experience in developing executive compensation programs for clients in a variety of industries including: high-tech, financial services, health care, entertainment, retail, manufacturing, distribution, real estate, and cooperatives. Dan works with companies in a variety of organizational and developmental stages including startup/Pre-IPO, privately held, recently public, public, subsidiary, foreign owned, and non-profit organizations. Before joining Watson Wyatt in 1997, Dan was a manager for seven years at KPMG Peat Marwick specializing in compensation and related issues. Dan received his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and his M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Los Angeles Compensation and Benefits Association (LACABA), National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP), Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA) and World at Work. He has spoken at numerous industry meetings including Alliance of American Insurers, BIO, Entrepreneurial Connect, ESWA, Financial Executives International, Finnish Institute for International Trade, Foundation for Economic Development, HRConnect (UCSD), Los Angeles Compensation and Benefits Association (LACABA), National Association for Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP), National Center for Employee Ownership, Professionals in Human Resources (PIHRA), and the Western Pension Conference. Workshop : Negotiating Underwater Options