The Data-Mining Help Desk for the Corporate Advisory Firm
About ESGAUGE
The Data-Mining Help Desk for the Corporate Advisory Firm
Analyst-reviewed corporate intelligence, structured for benchmarking and advisory work.
Who We Are
Designed for the practitioner.
ESGAUGE turns public-company disclosure into structured, comparable intelligence for corporate practitioners and professional advisers. Our nine maintained data libraries cover executive and director compensation, board practices, leadership demographics, shareholder voting and activism, and environmental and human-capital disclosure.
Corporate teams, asset managers, compensation consultants, law firms, accounting and audit firms, researchers, and the media use ESGAUGE to benchmark peer practices and answer specific empirical questions.
Coverage spans the United States, Canada, and Europe. Each market is mapped to the same defined schema so practices and provisions can be compared consistently.
Our Position
What we are — and what we are not.
Not a ratings agency
We do not publish a score or a ranking. We report what a company disclosed, with the disclosure rate alongside it.
Not a modelled dataset
Nothing is estimated or imputed. Every data point is coded from the filing in which the company made the statement.
A help desk
You bring the empirical question; we return the dataset, cut to the peer group, sector, or size band you specify.
Track Record
How the libraries were built.
2017
Incentive plan analysis
Expanded beyond proxy disclosure tables into STI and LTI design practices — equity vehicles, performance periods, payout types, metrics and weightings.
2018
Director pay and board practices, Russell 3000
Released full Russell 3000 intelligence on director compensation, then a comprehensive set of data on corporate board practices.
2019
Anti-takeover measures; first index collaborations
Introduced the anti-takeover dataset, and began collaborations with the Small Cap Institute and MSCI ESG Research on pay-for-performance.
2020
The Conference Board partnership deepens
Joined The Conference Board and Semler Brossy on a director compensation benchmarking suite, and published CEO Succession Practices with Heidrick & Struggles.
2021 onward
Annual proxy season and governance programs
Recurring studies with The Conference Board, Russell Reynolds Associates and Rutgers Law School on shareholder voting, board composition, and executive pay.
2026
Climate, human capital and AI-risk disclosure
Sustainability and AI governance studies with The Conference Board, and the Sustainability Report Tracker with Trellis.
Research Partners
We publish with the institutions our clients already read.
ESGAUGE co-produces recurring studies on board composition, executive pay, proxy voting, and sustainability disclosure. Our data is cited by the business and legal press.
Co-produced with
- The Conference Board
- KPMG Board Leadership Center
- Russell Reynolds Associates
- Semler Brossy
- Heidrick & Struggles
- FW Cook
- Debevoise & Plimpton
- Ropes & Gray
- Rutgers Law School
- John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance
- Major Lindsey & Africa
- MSCI ESG Research
- Trellis
- Southlea
Cited by
- Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
- Financial Times
- Bloomberg
- The Wall Street Journal
- Fortune
- Reuters
- Forbes
- Axios
- FT Agenda
- PR Newswire
- Society for Corporate Governance
- NACD
Who We Serve
Our clients.
- Business corporations
- In-house legal, HR, and investor relations teams benchmarking their own disclosure.
- Compensation consultants
- Peer benchmarking on SCT components, incentive plan design and metrics, and pay-for-performance.
- Law firms
- Board assessment, recruitment and refreshment work, and governance provision review.
- Accounting and audit firms
- Disclosure controls, compensation committee support, and assurance work.
- Asset management and investment companies
- Voting research, engagement priorities, and governance screening.
- Think tanks, academics and the media
- Joint research projects and data for published studies.
Leadership
Who you will be working with.
Umesh Chandra Tiwari
Executive Director
Paul Hodgson
Senior Advisor
Next
Start with the catalog.
Nine maintained libraries across the United States, Canada, and Europe.