Brent Longnecker, Chairman and CEO of Longnecker & Associates, has over 35 years of experience in strategy governance and remuneration consulting for public, private and not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Longnecker has built one of the country’s leading, privately-held executive management consultancies, serving both domestic and international markets, with additional corporate litigation support in which he has provided expert witness testimony for over 100 compensation-related cases. For three decades, he has consulted with a wide variety of companies in multiple industries. Further, he has authored 15 books on compensation, governance, and human resource – including the release of his 15th book, The Power of Restricted Stock, 3rd Edition. Mr. Longnecker has authored and/or been featured in more than 600 articles nationwide and Consulting Magazine selected Mr. Longnecker as one of the Top 25 consultants in the U.S. For the tenth year in a row, Longnecker & Associates was named one of the 2020 Best Companies to Work for in Texas. Out of the 100 companies given this distinction, L&A took the number one spot two prior years. He has both his bachelors and masters from the University of Houston.
Leadership Summary
Mr. Longnecker has over 35 years of leadership experience from both a board of director and operating executive perspective. In these roles, his responsibilities have included:
- Analysis, design and implementation of innovative performance, governance enhancement and cost savings programs.
- Establishment of broad policies and objectives to assist in governing organizations, inclusive of by-laws and charters.
- Assistance in selecting, compensating, mentoring, supporting, and reviewing the performance of boards, CEOs and key executives.
- Ensuring the availability of adequate resources – inclusive of capital, technology, and people.
- Assisting in negotiating rebates from professional service firms who have overcharged.
- Assistance with, and in some cases, the approval of annual budgets.
- Collaboration with outside advisors including but not limited to: accounting, tax, legal, human resources, and strategy.
- Accountable to stakeholders for organizational performance and long-term viability.
- Taking companies public.
Mr. Longnecker has deep expertise in energy, real estate and financial companies although he regularly consults with Boards of Directors, CEOs, key executives and advisors of all major industries addressing a wide range of operational, governance, organizational, strategic and ethical business issues.
Board Expertise
Mr. Longnecker has served as an outside director for both public and private companies.
Present:
Genprex, Inc. | Compensation and Governance Committees – Chairman; Audit Committee
LL12 | Chairman
True Velocity | Compensation Committee
Leviticus | Chairman
National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Texas Tri-Cities Chapter | Advisory Board
Past:
Arbitrade | Compensation Committee – Chairman
Pura Vida Spirits | Compensation Committee – Chairman
Rosehill Christian School | Board of Directors
AmReit | Compensation Committee – Chairman, Governance Committee – Member
Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Houston) | Board Member
ATP Oil & Gas | Audit Committee – Member
ReitPlus | Audit Committee
Skyauction.com | Compensation Committee – Chairman
The Strategy Factory | Compensation Committee – Chairman
While serving on audit, compensation and governance committees, Mr. Longnecker is/was responsible for:
- Overseeing the financial reporting, proxy and disclosure process.
- Overseeing performance, hiring and independence of outside auditors and consultants.
- Oversight of regulatory compliance, governance, ethics and whistleblower hotlines.
- Monitoring and evaluating the internal processes.
- Discussing risk management policies and practices with management and outside advisors.
- Assessing board’s composition and identifying missing qualities and/or characteristics.
Finally, Mr. Longnecker regularly attends continuing education courses offered at Harvard, the NACD and audit firms to understand ever-changing fiduciary responsibilities of corporate board members.
Business Advisory Expertise
Mr. Longnecker’s extensive experience includes:
- Executive compensation and corporate governance consulting.
- Compensation and human resources planning in regards to mergers, acquisitions, initial public offers (IPOs), leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and spin-offs.
- Analysis and design of compensation programs for directors, executives and employees for a variety of industries throughout the world.
- Coaching/mentoring of compensation committees and senior executives.
- Strategic planning in corporate human resources, ethics and operational issues.
- Human resource department audits, re-engineering and outsourcing.
- Performance/productivity-enhancement analysis and training.
- International human resources consulting for expatriates, third-country nationals and nationals, including work with non-U.S. firms that have invested in the U.S.
- Ethics planning, corporate governance; analysis and training.
- Investment banking fee analysis and design.
- Corporate defense against unreasonable compensation allegations, typically raised by: Shareholders/Stakeholders, The Internal Revenue Service, and Government regulators (OTS, DCAA, PUC, FDIC, FHLBB, SEC)
- Employment contract negotiations, mediation and arbitration.
- Special emphasis on start-ups and turnarounds.
Mr. Longnecker’s considerable “expert witness” experience includes:
- Significant deposition and trial testimony
- Wrongful discharge or pay inequity
- Estate planning compensation
- Government defense contractor compensation
- Wrongful death
- Bankruptcy compensation
- Golden parachute/severance
- Employment contract disputes
- Non-compete agreements
- Board of Directorships
Appointments/Awards
UH Cougar 100
- In 2019, Mr. Longnecker and Longnecker & Associates were selected as one of the University of Houston’s Cougar 100, which recognizes the most succesful Cougar-owned companies.
Texas Monthly Magazine
- Mr. Longnecker’s firm, Longnecker & Associates, has been selected as “The 100 Best Places to Work” for in Texas since 2011 – 9 consecutive years.
Houston Business Journal
- In 2018, Longnecker & Associates was named one of the Fastest Growing Companies in HBJ’s “Fast 100 List.”
- Longnecker & Associates received in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2017 the “Best Places to Work” award by The Houston Business Journal and ranked among the Top 10 the first three years.
Consulting Magazine
- Fastest Growing Firms, 2017 and 2018.
- In 2005, Mr. Longnecker was selected as one of the Top 25 Consultants in the U.S.
Forbes
- America’s Best Management Consulting Firms, 2016.
H Texas Magazine
- Mr. Longnecker was named one of the Top Professionals in Houston for 2012 – 2016; 5 straight years.
Texas Lawyer Magazine
- In 2009, Longnecker & Associates was listed as one of the Top Experts in Texas’ Top 10 Settlements for 2009.
WorldatWork
- In 2004, Mr. Longnecker served on a Blue Ribbon Commission that dealt with expensing stock options.
- In 2003, Mr. Longnecker served on a special taskforce to address HR issues presented by Congress and other regulatory commissions.
- From 2001 – present, as a result of being considered one of the top equity experts in the United States, Mr. Longnecker has filled the role of Technical Advisor on the equity-oriented course – T11. He is thus responsible for ensuring technical detail is correct in this course and other related courses. In addition, he created an advanced course and authored revised editions of two WorldatWork best selling books on equity.
- In 2001, Mr. Longnecker served on WorldatWork’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Ethics for Human Resource professionals across the globe.
Department of Labor (DOL)
- In 2000, Mr. Longnecker was referred to the Department of Labor (DOL) as one of the top executive compensation professionals in the United States. He and a select group of practitioners were interviewed by the DOL as special advisory experts to the Federal Economic Statistical Advisory Committee (FESAC) on “valuing long-term incentives.” He continues to assist them and other government agencies in this important area.
Education
Master of Business Administration, University of Houston, August 1979.
- Areas of concentration: Management, Human Resources
Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Houston, December 1977.
- Areas of concentration: Marketing, Finance
Selected for Beta Gamma Sigma, the National Business Honor Society. Continuing education at Harvard in Board Governance under Professor Jay Lorsch and Christian Palepu.
Employment
Present
Longnecker & Associates
- Mr. Longnecker, Chairman & CEO of Longnecker & Associates, leads the field in providing high quality human resources, executive compensation, and corporate governance consulting services.
- His primary mission is to create sound fiduciary solutions for companies that attract and retain executives, bolster shareholder value, and reflect premier corporate governance practices.
- Located in Houston, Texas, Longnecker & Associates is a specialized executive compensation and corporate governance consulting firm founded in 2003. Additional offices in Dallas and Denver.
Past
Resource Consulting Group
- As President of Resources Consulting Group, and Executive Vice President of Resources Connection, Brent Longnecker participated in the management led buyout of the Company from Deloitte & Touche.
- He was responsible for directing broad strategic and operating corporate activities toward achieving corporate objectives in accordance with policies established by the
Chief Executive Officer.
- He was also given primary responsibility in developing the Human Capital Solutions Group service line and consulting practice.
Deloitte & Touche
- National Principal-In-Charge for the Performance Management Compensation Consulting Practice
- Principal In-Charge of the Human Resource Strategies Group (Performance Management & Compensation, Learning & Development, Organizational Performance and Communication for the Mid American Region)
He and his team also received many operational awards including:
- Best Operating Office
- Best Service Line
- Best Service Line Group
- Top Marketing Award for creation and trademark of the “KEYSOP” (Key Employee Security Option Plan)
KPMG Peat Marwick
- Prior to Deloitte & Touche, Mr. Longnecker engaged in the practice of compensation, human resources and benefits consulting as a partner with KPMG Peat Marwick.
- He has been an owner/operator/director of several firms including an NASD broker-dealer, a financial planning firm and a real estate development firm. Finally, he has worked as a professional manager in the areas of human resources, compensation, training and development, and benefits for two energy companies.
Registered Trademarks Compensation/Business Processes Obtained
All In®
America’s Top Guns®
Discounted Employee Security Option Program™/DESOP™
Focus Forward®
Generally Accepted Compensation Principles®/GACP®
Job Evaluation Matrix™/JEM™
Job Ranking & Classification™/JR&C™
Key Employee Security Option Program™/KEYSOP™
L-Blast®
Live Life®
Longnecker & Associates®
Longnecker Compensation Scorecard™
Longnecker Independence Process™
Longnecker Percentile Identification Matrix/LPIM®
Longnecker®
LTI Decision Tree™
Option3™
Pay for Performance Index™
Purpose Positive®
Reasonable and Optics Quadrant Test™
Relational Customization®
SVC Comp Modeling System®/SVC®
Texas Top Guns®
Texas’ Sharpshooters™
Total Consulting™
Turning Carrots into Karats®
Valuation Data Analysis™
Value Generator®
Value Maintainer®
Weapons of Mass Excess®/WME®
Books Authored
The third edition of “The Power of Restricted Stock”.
“The Power of Restricted Stock.” The Definitive Guide to a Resurging Long-Term Incentive. WorldatWork, 2013, 2006, and 2004 editions, co-author Chris Crawford.
“Stock Option Alternatives.” A Strategic and Technical Guide of Long-Term Incentives, WorldatWork 2006 and 2003 editions.
“Rethinking Strategic Compensation.” CCH 2006 and 2004 editions “HR-How to Strategy,” CCH 2003, Contributing Author.
“A Practitioners Guide to Stock Option Plan Administration,” WorldatWork 2002.
“Board of Director Executive Compensation Summary,” co-author John Nash, 1993.
Deloitte & Touche’s Executive Compensation Catalog – 1996, key contributor. “The Future of the HR Profession,” SHRM, 2002.
Brent was one of the advisors from the top eight consulting firms to take Phase One of this Three Phase study conducted by SHRM.
“Equity at Work – Constructing a Broad-based Stock Option Plan,” WorldatWork, 2002. As a technical reviewer, Brent assisted in the writing, reviewing and editing in this publication.
Business, The Bible and You, 1993.
Miracles in Our Midst: Proof Positive God Is Among Us, 1993.
Certifications and Licenses
- Compensation Analyst Credential (CAC)
- Certified Benefits Professional (CBP)
- Compensation Committee Certification (CCC)
- Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)
- Global Remuneration Professional (GRP)
- Certified Executive Compensation Professional (CECP)
Awarded additional certificates of proficiency by WorldatWork in:
- Executive Compensation
- Base Salary Administration
- Benefits Administration
Professional Activities and Memberships
National Association Corporate Directors, Member
WorldatWork, faculty member Classes being taught:
- Total Compensation Management
- Executive Compensation
- Advanced Executive Compensation
- Alternative Rewards
- Equity Rewards (designed course)
Center for Professional Education (CPE), Past Instructor Classes taught:
- Introduction to Compensation and Benefits
- Executive Compensation (developed this course)
- Outsourcing (developed this course)
Classes developed:
- Ethics
- Reengineering
- Performance Measurement
- Benefit Program Compliance
- The Hiring Decision
Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS), Past Instructor Classes taught:
- Management and Human Resources
- Compensation Management
The Star 12 Foundation, Chairman
Rosehill Christian School Foundation, Member
Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Houston) – Past Board Member
