Susan Schroeder is a partner of Compensation Advisory Partners LLC (CAP) in Los Angeles. She has over 20 years of experience advising Boards and company management on compensation strategies, performance measurement customization, and short and long-term incentive plan design. Susan’s experience includes work for Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller public, private, and non-profit organizations across many industries, including manufacturing, real estate, commercial and investment banking, investment management, and professional services. Over the years, Susan has developed an expertise in developing incentive plans that reward for long-term value creation where publicly traded stock is not available.

Susan has been a speaker for several WorldatWork Total Rewards and Executive Compensation Forum conferences, meetings of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area Compensation and Benefits Associations, and the Private Company Governance Summit. She is a key contributor to “Incentive Pay Practices: Privately Held Companies”, a survey of annual and long-term incentive pay practices at privately held companies, now in its sixth edition.

Prior to joining CAP, Susan was a co-founder and partner of Vivient Consulting LLC, a boutique executive compensation consulting firm, for sixteen years. Prior to that, she was a principal in the Los Angeles offices of Mercer’s Human Capital practice and SCA Consulting. Additionally, she spent twelve years in the financial services industry specializing in finance and real estate lending at First Interstate Bank and Wells Fargo Bank.

Susan received a M.B.A. from The UCLA Anderson School of Management and an A.B. in Economics from Occidental College, where she graduated with honors. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the National MS Society, Southern California and Nevada Chapter, and the Board of Directors of The UCLA Anderson Alumni Association. She is a past member of the Board of Trustees of Occidental College, and a current member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. She earned the Certified Executive Compensation Professional (CECP) designation from WorldatWork.