Athar Siddiqee is Vice President of Global Total Rewards at Micron Technology, a $30 billion, 48,000-employee, high-tech firm. He has extensive experience in this field, having served in Total Rewards leadership positions over a 25-year career at Cisco, Synopsys, SanDisk and Xilinx, among others, including a 2-year international assignment in Bangalore.

A life-long Bay Area resident, Siddiqee earned a bachelor’s degree from UCLA in Mathematics/Economics and an MBA from Santa Clara University. In addition, he is the current Chair of the WorldatWork Executive Rewards Advisory Council and has taught professional courses at WorldatWork, UC Santa Cruz Extension, and San Jose State University for many years. Athar has even instructed in Spanish in Costa Rica and Mexico, meaning he has confused students in multiple languages. Finally, despite failing numerous times, Siddiqee continues to pursue his personal goal of becoming a stand-up comedian. He lives with his wife, son and daughter in Sunnyvale, California. Even they don't think he's funny.

Charlie Franklin is the Co-founder & CEO of Compa, a VC-backed startup with the mission to make compensation fair and competitive for everyone. Compa is compensation intelligence software for enterprise total rewards teams navigating era of pay transparency. 

Charlie has over a decade HR experience, mostly focused in compensation. He started his career at Mercer, a leading global HR consulting firm, where he advised on compensation strategy for Fortune 500 companies in technology, financial services, life sciences, and energy. He subsequently led executive compensation and people strategy at Juniper Networks, and most recently led HR M&A and global mobility at Workday prior to founding Compa. 

Charlie resides in Newport Beach, California, where he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughters hiking, gardening, and bicycling by the ocean.