Executives at companies based in Orange County made a Wall Street Journal list of 500 public company chief executives that’s ranked by pay and compares 2016 cash-and-stock compensation with their companies’ shareholder return.
CEOs on the list who lead OC-based firms include Michael Mussallem of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. in Irvine, with $9.7 million in compensation and shareholder return up 19%, and Michael McKee, chairman of healthcare real estate investment trust HCP Inc., who served as interim chief executive for part of last year, with $5.8 million in compensation and shareholder return down 9.4%.
CEOs at firms with an OC presence who made the list are Walt Disney Co.’s Robert Iger; Robert Kotick of gaming company Activision Blizzard Inc., Hock Tan of chipmaker Broadcom Ltd., Stuart Miller of homebuilder and developer Lennar Corp., and Stephen Milligan of Western Digital Corp.
—Pete Weitzner
