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Steven Van Putten is Managing Director and head of the firm's Boston office. He has extensive experience advising Fortune 500 compensation committees and senior management on executive and director compensation matters. He consults across a range of industries, including technology, life sciences, manufacturing and consumer products.Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Van Putten was the North America East Region Practice Leader of Watson Wyatt's Executive Compensation Consulting Practice and North American practice director of Watson Wyatt's performance metrics and measurement group. Before joining Watson Wyatt, he was a senior executive compensation consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.He is a frequent speaker at industry…

Mr. Vincent trained as an architect at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He began his career conducting research projects on light and vision for office workers, coal miners, visibility nighttime running lights on aircraft carriers and visibility of small objects on lighted roadways. Vincent directed the Lighting Research Institute’s programs (1982-1995) where investigations established the impact of light on seasonal affected disorder (SAD), implications of fluorescent lighting and malignant melanoma in Australian office workers and the application of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) to control transmission of airborne pathogens. Since 1991 Mr. Vincent has focused on an environmental health program…

Dr. Waggoner was responsible for the design, fabrication, and operation of test stands used to conduct life cycle testing of filters to NQA-1 quality requirements. Filter testing activities have been conducted at MSU for 20 years. Initial filter testing was conducted under a joint effort between the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management and EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response with respect to the proposed Hazardous Waste Combustor Maximum Achievable Control Technology. Work has since been conducted for various DOE sites and also for the National Nuclear Security Administration. Dr. Waggoner served as a member of the…

Throughout his career, Dr. Wagner has provided organizational leadership at the juncture between scientific research and public health policy, both nationally and internationally. At ɫɫ�о���, he teaches about the science behind occupational and environmental policies and regulations and the limits of regulatory health protective strategies.Until recently, he served as Senior Advisor to the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH/CDC).  At NIOSH, he developed and led the WorkLife Initiative, the precursor to the NIOSH Total Worker Health program.  From 2009 to early 2012, Dr. Wagner served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health,…

Dr. Rochelle Walensky served as the 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021-2023), Professor of Medicine, ɫɫ�о��� Medical School (2012-2021), and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital (2017-2021). Dr. Walensky is an infectious disease clinician whose research career is guided by a belief that the clinical and economic outcomes of medical decisions can be improved through the explicit articulation of choices, the systematic assembly of evidence, and the careful assessment of comparative costs and benefits. She has focused these beliefs on mathematical model-based research toward the promotion of global access to HIV prevention, screening, and…

Katherine D. Walker is a Senior Research Associate with the ɫɫ�о��� Kuwait Project. She has 20 years of experience in the evaluation of environmental health risks and their role in decisions about public health protection. Her particular focus has been on the analysis of variability and uncertainty in human health risks and on the use of expert subjective judgment for that purpose. She has published research on the elicitation of probabilistic expert judgments about uncertainty in ambient, indoor, and personal exposures to benzene. It was one of the first studies of subjective expert judgment to assess quantitatively the quality, or…

Dr. Ware is an internationally recognized leader in health and quality of life (QOL) measurement and Professor at UMass Medical School (UMMS). He was Senior Research Psychologist for 15 years at RAND developing outcome measures for the Health Insurance Experiment followed by serving as Principal Investigator of the Medical Outcomes Study, which continued into a 12-year term as Senior Scientist at Tufts Medical Center. Prior to joining UMMS, he founded and led QualityMetric Incorporated for 10 years. Throughout his career, his goal has been to develop practical patient-reported measures that are useful in improving healthcare and, more recently, that meet…

Nathan Watson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of SciShield, a provider of integrated safety and research management software solutions. Prior to founding SciShield in 2003, he spent twelve years as a bench researcher and laboratory supervisor at the University of California San Francisco and Dartmouth Medical School studying the molecular underpinnings of cellular differentiation and metabolism of brain tumors. He serves on the Board of Directors of The Laboratory Safety Institute and the UC Center for Laboratory Safety.