About Us

3XCD is an advisory firm, originally founded by three senior executive compensation design consultants from a major Global Compensation firm - thus 3XCD.

The firm, led by Gary Finch - Managing Director, recognized the need for a more reliable, accurate, and cost effective process to analyze and provide executive compensation data to the Board of Directors.

  • 3XCD does not provide other services to the company - we only work with the Board of Directors on Board compensation governance services. As we do not offer other services we are never forced into conflict of interest issues. 3XCD only advises the Board of Directors.
  • 3XCD uses only REAL data - we do not use survey-based data at all.
    • Financial data is actual company data. This data is approved by the CEO and CFO of the company. Financial data has been audited and normalized for comparative purposes.
    • Compensation data has been extracted from securities filings and evaluated using compensation data protocols.
    • 3XCD has developed the most reliable method to provide real current data to our board clients in a very timely and cost effective manner.

In light of the recent scandals 3XCD now provides performance based compensation on executive compensation. This approach involves providing advice on current guidelines; analyzing the degree of alignment between corporate performance and executive compensation; and providing recommendations on talent retention and appropriate pay levels.

Our approach is market driven and is endorsed by our supportive board clients. Our clients recognize the need for independent advisory on real executive financial and compensation data in order to truly meet shareholder and institutional investor requirements.