Industry Pioneer Carine Schneider Joins Accretive Solutions to head new Global Equity Compensation Practice

CHICAGO, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Accretive Solutions, a national professional services firm, is pleased to announce that Carine Schneider has joined the firm as Global Equity Compensation Practice Leader.

(Logo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130513/CG12009LOGO)

Carine Schneider, a 28+ year industry veteran, former PwC Partner and former CEO of EASi and Global Shares, will bring her leadership and expertise in equity and executive compensation to lead the expansion of the firm's equity compensation practice.

"Carine's global perspective and breadth of experience will provide our clients the best possible business partner as they offer equity programs to their employees," says Rich Moran, CEO of Accretive Solutions. "Her energy, leadership and proven track record will strengthen our existing business and enable us to expand more fully into additional offerings surrounding stock compensation."

In her role, Carine will oversee as well as directly support clients and partners with their stock plan administration and related financial reporting consulting, technology implementation, data conversion and reconciliation, strategic advisory, staff augmentation and outsourcing needs. 

"I'm pleased to partner with Carine as we continue to broaden the services we offer our emerging growth as well as established company clients," said Kerry Barrett, Northern California Market Leader.  "Equity compensation is a key element of the total compensation program at our clients, and adding someone with Carine's experience and background to our team demonstrates our commitment to provide the critical services the market demands."

Most recently, Ms. Schneider was CEO of SaaS firm EASi.  Prior to that, she was the CEO and co-founder of Global Shares. Prior to leading these firms, she held a senior level management position with Morgan Stanley Stock Plan Services.  Prior to that she was a Partner with PwC where she led the GHRS Equity Planner practice. 

Earlier in her career Carine was the Leader of the Global Stock Plan Services group at Watson Wyatt Worldwide. She was also the Director of Customer Services for Corporate Management Solutions (now Solium Capital) and was the Manager of Shareholder Relations at Oracle Corporation where she assisted in the initial public offering and managed all aspects of the company's various stock plans.  She is a member of the Board of an education technology start-up called Schoolfy.

Ms. Schneider has contributed to the profession as the founding Executive Director of the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP), co-founder and current Board Chair of the Global Equity Organization (GEO), has chaired the Advisory Board for the Santa Clara University Equity Professionals Certification Program twice and is currently President of ACSPA (the American Coalition of Stock Plan Administrators). As of May 6, 2013, she can be reached at (650) 963-8206 or [email protected].

About Accretive Solutions

Accretive Solutions is a national professional services firm providing Consulting, Staffing and Outsourcing solutions to a wide variety of organizations from start-ups to the Fortune 500. The Company has 11 offices and more than 700 talented and experienced consultants who specialize in solving problems in Accounting & Finance, Governance & Compliance, Information Technology and Business Transformation. For more than 30 years, Accretive has been a leader in providing flexible business solutions ranging from consultative services to staff augmentation to executive search to outsourcing. For more information, please visit: www.accretivesolutions.com.

SOURCE Accretive Solutions