Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Callaway Golf CEO Takes Mulligan With Exexcutive Perks

Despite stewarding a mixed financial performance at Callaway Golf Company (ELY-$7.90), Chief Executive George Fellows received compensation valued at $4.0 million in 2008, only slightly less than his 2007 take home pay, according to an analysis of the the 2009 regulatory proxy statement filed with the SEC.

Fellows
also received from the company—in each year—a payment of $66,500 to assist him with travel expenses "not otherwise reimbursable under the Company’s policies." Obscuring the true nature of the payments calls into question the Board's Governance Policy. Read More….

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