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As vice president of compensation and benefits Val Zook is responsible for the company's benefit plans board of director compensation and payroll. She oversees employee benefits plan design communications open enrollment and compliance activities. She also manages executive benefit programs including the long-term incentive plans stock grants executive health and life insurance deferred compensation and supplemental retirement plans and other executive perquisites.
Ms. Zook has more than 18 years of human resources experience. She joined Ryland in March 2000 as a senior benefits specialist. She was promoted to benefits manager in July 2000 to executive compensation and benefits manager in December 2001 and to her current position in September 2003.
She graduated magna cum laude from California State University Northridge with a bachelor's degree in business administration and marketing. In addition she earned professional benefits certification through World at Work and a professional designation in human resources management from the University of California Los Angeles.
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