CHALK TALK WITH CARINE
How to Ensure an Equity Design and Allocation Strategy that Grows with Your Company
This practical webinar is ideal for startups to mid- and late-stage private companies who wish to learn state-of-the-art practices when designing and implementing employee equity compensation programs.
Carine will lead the conversation with two experienced professionals who will discuss how to design and manage an employee stock plan that grows with your company from the early stage through pre-exit/pre-IPO. Getting it done right will ensure a plan that scales and delivers the desired effect.
Topics will include:
- Designing a stock plan that is inclusive and scalable as your company grows
- How to leverage equity to increase productivity and retention – it’s all in the design!
- What to do right (and how you might hurt yourself) at various stages of your company’s growth
Host
Carine Schneider
President
AST Private Company Solutions
Carine Schneider, FGE is an experienced Fintech executive and leader in the private market community. She is the president of AST Private Company Solutions, which is the maker of the next-generation equity management platform and cap table software team at www.astrella.com. Carine was formerly the president of Nasdaq Private Market, has been the CEO of numerous startups, and prior to the startup world, she was a partner at PwC.
Guest
Georgina Lai
Director of Equity
Instacart
Georgina is Director of Equity Programs at Instacart, overseeing all facets of Instacart’s equity compensation program. She has experience both from a vendor side as the Director of Product Strategy for Nasdaq Private Market, where she developed an equity/cap table platform for private companies; as well as from the issuer side, both at private and public companies such as Salesforce, Facebook, Pinterest, and Reddit.
Guest
Jon Burg
Managing Partner
Infinite Equity
Jon is Managing Partner at Infinite Equity. He leverages an extensive actuarial background to apply added rigor and discipline to design, valuation, and implementation of employee equity compensation programs. Jon has a BS in Mathematics and Economics from University of Washington, is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, and is a certified equity professional. He is based in San Francisco.