Santa Clara University

2008 Biography

Alan A. Nadel, CPA, Managing Director, Strategic Apex Group, LLC

 Alan serves as Managing Director of Strategic Apex Group LLC, a national executive compensation firm with offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. In his current practice, Alan advises boards of directors about the design, implementation and administration of executive and director programs, including the strategic, financial, funding, accounting and tax considerations. He also represents a number of companies and senior executives in negotiations concerning employment, severance and change-in-control agreements and has provided expert testimony in both civil and criminal matters.

Alan is the author of Accounting for Equity Compensation (1st and 2nd editions) and is a contributing author of the Employee Benefits Handbook, The Stock Options Book and Executive Compensation in ESOP Companies. He has lectured on Executive Compensation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, the LLM program of the New York University School of Law and the City University of New York graduate program in Taxation. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA in Taxation (City University of New York), MS (APC) in Actuarial Science (New York University) and BS in Mathematics (John Carroll University).

Alan is a frequent speaker before professional and industry groups and has been quoted in numerous business publications and newspapers. He serves on the boards of the American Benefits Council, the Certified Equity Professional Institute and the New York Employee Benefits Group. His editorial board affiliations include the Compensation Planning Journal and the Journal of Compensation and Benefits.