Ian Singer

Ian Singer is a Vice President of Aon Consulting’s Compensation Consulting Group where he manages the eComp Data Services division. The division provides proxy statement-related information extraction and research and survey management/market pricing solutions to clients. Ian is responsible for managing all aspects of the division, including ongoing strategic and product development, operations, traditional and e-commerce revenue line expansion, and overseeing all marketing initiatives relating specifically to Aon’s proprietary eComp Executive Compensation Database and CompProASP market pricing application.


EComp is a web-based database application that tracks the executive compensation of over 50,000 executives at over 12,000 U.S. publicly traded companies. Other eComp database modules report on: board of directors’ practices and pay data; company dilution/run-rate levels; and equity grants – both acquisitions and dispositions. The service is located at www.ecomponline.com. CompProASP, an application service that enables compensation professionals to conduct market pricing and survey management and submissions, is located at www.compproasp.com.


Often working directly with VP-level executives, executive compensation managers, corporate counsel, and compensation committee members at various Fortune 1000 companies, Ian provides peer/comparator group assessments, executive compensation surveys plan design analysis, corporate governance and board of directors pay research, severance agreement analysis, and other compensation-related data solutions to clients. Representative data-project clients who Ian has worked with include Aetna; American Financial Group; Cendant; Federal Express; First State Bank; Nextel; St. Gobain; Bally’s Total Fitness, and Tektronix.


Ian was a founder of the predecessor company that created the eComp database – Joint Information, Inc. – prior to selling the assets to Aon Consulting in 2002. Ian is licensed to practice law in New York, and he is a member of the ABA’s Executive Compensation Committee of the Business Law Section, and the New York State Bar Association’s Business Law Section – Committee on the internet & Technology.
Ian has lectured before the D.C. Bar, the NY County Bar Assoc., and a CLE International Trademark Law Conference. Ian is also a member of the National Order of Barristers, a former Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic University, and a former lecturer at New York University. Ian earned his B.A. in History from the George Washington University and his J.D. from the New York Law School, where he chaired the Moot Court Honor Association and received the Best Advocate Award for excellence in appellate brief writing and oral presentation.