[governance] FW: [] ICANN President: $750,000+$195,000 bonus vs

Sun Feb 14 10:47:02 EST 2010

Hello Avri Doria

Thanks for your comment on this.

1. I compared the Executive Compensation at ICANN to that of Commercial
Corporations to point out - in general - that some of ICANN's executives
would get higher compensation than what ICANN offers to them, so these
executives are not exactly taking advantage of ICANN.

2. When we have a lower compensation structure for non-profits it might save
a few thousand dollars for that non-profit corporation, but this practice
amounts to the non-profit taking advantage of those who opt to work for
non-profits.

3. Lower compensations structures tend to cause at least a little bit of
compromise in the corporation's ability to hire people with the right
background and skills. A corporation such as ICANN is several times as
important as the largest of commercial corporations, so the people hired to
run ICANN should be of a caliber higher than that of the people hired by
very large commercial corporations.

4. There are good natured people with the required qualification who would
opt to work at low compensation levels, but it is not always necessary for
all non-profit corporations to take advantage of the goodness of such
people.

While this is my rationale in general, I do NOT blindly endorse the
compensation package offered to every employee of ICANN.

In the case of the CEO's compensation for the year, I wouldn't worry about a
$ 250,000 difference. It isn't much. Definitely not a significant sum of
money for a corporation as large as ICANN at its current level of revenue
flow.  And not a significant difference to merit an embarrassing discussion
in a public list or in an open forum. The committee of people who have
agreed upon the compensation and benefits must have taken this decision
after due deliberations in camera. Perhaps we should leave it at that.

( CEO's compensation at ICANN was close to $700,000 last year, if I am
right. In that case $750,000 wouldn't be anything more than an inflation
adjustment for the year)

Our energies could instead be directed towards finding ways of enhancing
ICANN's revenues in areas where it is due, where it does not become a burden
for the user. That would be several times more rewarding than saving a few
thousand dollars on Executive Compensation.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Avri Doria <avri at psg.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You compare ICANN to profit making corporations.  I do not think that is
> appropriate.
>
> ICANN should be compared to an NGO as a non profit for the good of the
> public corporation.  By and large, it is not considered proper to pay CEOs
> more then $500,000 in this environment - and when it happens, it is
> controversial.  Even American Red Cross only pays         around 500,000 per
> year.  And we cannot say the work of ICANN is more complex or more important
> than that.
>
> Of course JP Morgan's Partners HealthCare Systems in Boston takes home $2.7
> million, so if ICANN is more like the healthcare industry then like a
> stewardship NGO, there is a ways to grow yet.
>
> a.
>
>
>
> On 13 Feb 2010, at 14:56, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:
>
> > Hello Michael Gurstein
> >
> > I feel that $ 750, 000 + is perfectly alright. Given his background and
> exposure, any business corporation should have been willing to 'poach' Rod
> Beckstorm from wherever he was for well over a million dollars a year. So,
> he is not overpaid by ICANN.
> >
> > This was one of the topics that I wrote about in Circle ID a year ago,
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090106_icann_pay_more_increase_spending/omething that I wrote last year in Circle ID , if it is of any interest.
> >
> > Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:12 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com>
> > Date: February 12, 2010 12:14:42 AM EST
> > To: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
> > Subject: ICANN President: $750,000+$195,000 bonus vs President of US:
> > $400,000
> > Reply-To: karl at cavebear.com
> >
> >
> > ICANN has published, as it must as a tax exempt charitable corporation,
> the
> > salary it gifts unto its President:  http://bit.ly/ametyG
> >
> > ICANN's president gets $750,000 plus a $195,000 spiff - $945,000, plus
> > expenses.
> >
> > The amount is more than double the compensation of the President of the
> > United Status: $400,000 plus $50,000 for expenses.
> >
> > The amount is about four times the compensation of the Secretary General
> of
> > the United Nations.
> >
> > Is there perhaps some truth to the rumor that ICANN is soon going to be
> > buying a pair of Airbus 380's to call "Domain Name One" as they transport
> > its President?
> >
> >        --karl--
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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