>whether compliance personnel should receive stock incentives.
I don't this is about underpaying them but rather about legal complexities of inherent conflict of interest between compliance and stock based compensation. E.g. You don't want a compliance officer to look in the other direction to ensure her stock appreciates. This seems like a reasonable question/topic for a meeting of lawyers.
They are conflicted themselves; secretly (sources won't even reveal their identities) managing board relationships and deciding on compensation matters. The question is reasonable, the secrecy isn't. The question should be addressed openly.
They won't reveal their identities to Bloomberg. This is like saying "Apple won't release attendance and transcripts of its executive meetings to the New York Times; therefore, they are up to no good".
I don't this is about underpaying them but rather about legal complexities of inherent conflict of interest between compliance and stock based compensation. E.g. You don't want a compliance officer to look in the other direction to ensure her stock appreciates. This seems like a reasonable question/topic for a meeting of lawyers.