Ms. Ferracone is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Farient Advisors (Farient), a compensation and performance advisory firm. Farient helps clients make performance-enhancing and defensible decisions that are in the best interests of their shareholders. Ms. Ferracone provides compensation and performance advisory services to public and private companies.
From March 2005 to March 2007, Ms. Ferracone was President of the Human Capital business of Mercer, a business which includes talent and compensation consulting, software, and data services globally. Prior to that, Ms. Ferracone was Chairman of the U.S. West Region for Mercer’s parent company, Marsh & McLennan Companies, market leader and Worldwide Partner at Mercer, and President and Chairman of SCA Consulting, a firm she co-founded in 1985 and sold to Mercer in 2001.
With over 30 years of consulting experience, Ms. Ferracone has advised clients in the areas of business and talent strategies, executive compensation, organization, value management, and performance measurement. She is the author of the book entitled, Fair Pay Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay. Her work has focused on providing high-impact decision-making support and organizational solutions based on strategic and market insights. In addition, Ms. Ferracone has authored numerous articles and has been quoted often in national publications. She is currently a regular contributor to Forbes.com and Directorship Magazine. She has been a frequent presenter for prominent organizations, such as the Council of Institutional Investors, Society for Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and The Conference Board and testified before a Congressional sub-committee in Washington, D.C. regarding the salary of the President of the United States. In 2003, Ms. Ferracone received the World at Work Distinguished Service Award. She is a Certified Executive Compensation Professional (CECP), designated by WorldatWork.
Ms. Ferracone currently serves as the Vice-Chairman for the Board of Trustees of Duke University, the Board of Directors of Trupanion, a public company, the Board of Trustees of Oaktree Capital Funds, and the Board of Directors of Enlight, a company that delivers strategically relevant, independent information to boards though an easy-to-use software application. She is also a member of Women Corporate Directors, Committee for Economic Development, NACD, The Committee of 200, and the World Presidents’ Organization. For the past five years, Ms. Ferracone has been named to the NACD Directorship 100, the prestigious list of the most influential people in corporate governance and the boardroom. In 2014, Ms. Ferracone was selected as one of EY’s Entrepreneurial Winning Women, a competition that annually recognizes female entrepreneurs.
