Equilar

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Equilar, Inc.
Privately Held
Industry Business Information, Corporate Governance, Executive and Director Compensation Benchmarking
Founded 2000
Headquarters Redwood City, California, USA
Key people
Founder & CEO: David Chun
Products Equilar Insight, Equilar Atlas
Website www.equilar.com

Equilar is a California-based, privately held company that provides information about total executive compensation packages of the top officers at publicly traded companies and nonprofit organizations.

Equilar's research is frequently cited in Bloomberg, BusinessWeek,[1] The New York Times,[2] Financial Times,[3] The Wall Street Journal[4] and other media publications.

Equilar has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Deloitte,[5] Inc. magazine[6] and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.[7]

History

Equilar was founded in 2000 by CEO David Chun. In 2009, they hosted the first Executive Compensation Symposium [8][better source needed] In 2011, CEO David Chun was named to the 2011 National Association of Corporate Directors’ (NACD) Directorship 100.[9] The company launched TSR & CEO Pay Modeler for Equilar Insight,[10] and Equilar Atlas, an online tool that allows nonprofit organizations, executive and board recruiters, wealth managers and businesses to reach out to high-net-worth corporate executives,[11]

In 2012, Equilar announced a partnership with Glass Lewis.[12] They also launched Nonprofit Insight, to provide nonprofit organizations with executive and senior officer compensation data for benchmarking purposes. A few of the first users include the American Heart Association, Inova Health System, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology[13] They also partnered with NYSE Euronext.[14]

Awards

Equilar Insight won the Human Resources Executive’s 2002 Top HR Products Contest.[15]

In 2011, The Silicon Valley Business Journal recognizes Equilar as one of Silicon Valley’s 51 fastest-growing privately held companies of 2011[16]

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