Certified Equity Professionals
Volunteer Spotlight
The CEPI could not exist without the significant support of our volunteer network. Committed CEPs spend countless hours working on all aspects of exam development. Take a peek behind the scenes of one of these CEP volunteer stars.
Roger Gilbert, CEP
Roger has been involved in equity compensation since the mid 1990’s – and like many others, his initial involvement was not his choice. While managing payroll for a biotech company, equity administration was added to his responsibilities. Roger remembers his boss telling him “It’s just like doing payroll.” During the next 7 years, their stock price went from $15 to $75 to $5 and Roger discovered that equity compensation was definitely NOT just like doing payroll, but he also found his niche. Now Roger enjoys working at EASi where he works with companies ranging in size from 10 to 10,000 employees with plans and requirements to match.
Roger enjoys volunteering for the CEPI and especially likes Standard Setting. “Working on Standard Setting can bring a reality check and a hit of humility. During the review there will be times where a volunteer gets an answer wrong and finds out that 65% of the candidates got it right. That always reminds us of how hard the candidates have to work while they prepare for the test.”
Volunteering is in Roger’s blood – and not just for the CEPI. During college, he spent a few years living in Taiwan, studying Chinese. Thirty years later, he is using that experience to teach classes for Chinese immigrants learning English.
The CEPI is happy to have Roger as a volunteer. His advice to other CEPs? “Join now. If you are like me and took your CEP exams before FAS 123R came on the scene, you might be falling behind the times. If you didn’t like the test questions, get into Item Writing or Item Review and take responsibility for the test. Get into Standard Setting and prove that you’ve still ‘got it’.”
Great advice from a great volunteer!
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