Dan Kapinos is an Associate Partner with Aon Hewitt's Global Technical Shared Services Team, the equity valuation and accounting group for Aon Hewitt that assists over 450 companies with all aspects of ASC Topic 718, ranging from plan design considerations to expense accruals.
Specifically, Dan provides industry-leading expertise to companies, covering the valuation and accounting of Employee Stock Options, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Performance Awards and potential Underwater Stock Option Exchanges. Additionally, Dan has consulted on valuations of compensatory arrangements for purposes of a change-in-control under IRC 280G, valuations and accounting for equity programs in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures under Topic 805, and equity plan designs focusing on maximizing the value delivered to employee while minimizing the associated compensation expense. Some of Dan's clients include Canadian National Railway, CarMax, Ingersoll-Rand, J. Crew Group, NextEra Energy, PepsiCo, QUALCOMM Inc, and Tyco International.
As leader of Aon Hewitt's PeerTracker tool, Dan oversees the tracking and communication of performance awards with market conditions to clients, providing cross-functional benefits to Human Resources and Financial Reporting.
Before joining Radford, Dan graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in statistics. In 2009, he obtained the Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation through Santa Clara University. Dan speaks on a variety of equity compensation topics at industry events on both the national and international stage, such as the CEP Symposium, the national NASPP conference, and the international GEO conference. He has also authored a number of articles and whitepapers, focusing on a variety of equity compensation issues. Additionally, Dan is on the Alumni Board of Directors for the Eberly College of Science at the Pennsylvania State University, as well as the NASPP Philadelphia Chapter Board.