Martin "Marty" Wertlieb

The cost, the quality of the school, and the opportunity for getting a spot on the varsity fencing team were the reasons I chose to attend CCNY. I majored in business administration, and I don't remember having any professors at CCNY whom I didn't like. The fencing coach, Eddie Lucia, was fantastic. Under his training, I won the Eastern Intercollegiate Saber Championship in March '56. Shortly after graduating from CCNY, I started working at the largest manufacturing company in Brooklyn. I started in the management training program at a company called Mergenthaler Linotype. I was with them for a little under two years. They moved from Brooklyn to Long Island, where I was with them for about four months to help them manage their move. I sent my resume to some companies in California. My wife and I ended up in Los Angeles. In 1966 I went into management consulting and joined one of the largest accounting firms at the time, called Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. Now it is known as KPMG. While there I did a lot of work in the compensation consulting area. I was discovered by the federal government and asked to join President Nixon in Washington to help write regulations and administer programs related to rules governing executive compensation throughout the country. In 1981 I returned to KPMG as a direct entry partner. I was responsible for running their national compensation consulting practice for five years and their western region compensation consulting practice up until my retirement in 1991. After that I had my own consulting firm and still do. I started focusing on assisting in divorce cases where executive compensation was a major issue. I became the leading expert witness in executive compensation in divorce cases in Los Angeles and ultimately in the state of California. On May 18, 2012, based on my accomplishments with its fencing team, I was inducted into CCNY's Alumni Varsity Association's Hall of Fame.