Governing Health Podcast | 2025 Executive Compensation Committee: Key Priorities and Strategic Insights

By and on April 15, 2025

This special quarterly series of the Governing Health podcast with SullivanCotter highlights developments in and offers support to the board’s executive compensation committee as it navigates a range of complex operational, technical, and strategic challenges.

In this episode, Michael Peregrine, Tim Cotter, Bruce Greenblatt, Kathy Hastings, and Jeff Holdvogt offer recommendations for the committee to focus on in 2025, including:

  • Establishing appropriate incentive goals in an evolving health system
  • Prioritizing executive succession planning/leadership development
  • Keeping appraised of regulatory and market trends
  • Ensuring flexibility and defensibility in committee approval processes
  • Aligning key governance documents to fulfill committee fiduciary duties
  • Evaluating committee reporting and coordination with other board committees
  • Overseeing executive compensation in for-profit and not-for-profit ventures subsidiaries
  • Considering board compensation trends in not-for-profit health systems
  • Determining the need to evolve committee composition
  • Addressing executive compensation scrutiny

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Michael W. Peregrine
Michael W. Peregrine represents corporations (and their officers and directors) in connection with governance, corporate structure, fiduciary duties, officer-director liability issues, charitable trust law and corporate alliances. Michael is recognized as one of the leading national practitioners in corporate governance law. Read Michael W. Peregrine's full bio.


Jeffrey Holdvogt
Jeffrey (Jeff) M. Holdvogt regularly counsels public and privately held companies and tax-exempt organizations on a wide range of employee benefits matters. These include the design and administration of complex pension, 401(k) and 403(b) plans, nonqualified and executive deferred compensation arrangements, fiduciary and plan investment issues under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), internal compliance reviews and voluntary correction filings, and benefit plan matters arising from mergers and acquisitions, as well as other ongoing day-to-day retirement and executive compensation issues. Read Jeff Holdvogt's full bio.

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