Ilene Milne is a seasoned HR and compensation leader with a career spanning more than two decades, and a track record of implementing disruptive compensation strategies within the high-tech industry.

She has extensive experience across all compensation programs, forging relationships and influence with the Board of Directors, as well as deep international knowhow from four years abroad in the UK leading rewards for EMEA.

Ilene is passionate about creating programs that are simple, fair and consistent which also scale as companies grow and evolve. She approaches her work each day with the goal to have fun while tackling issues with care and thoughtfulness.

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.