Best bang for the bucks

Hach president tops rankings for return on compensation

The answer to the questions “What makes a good CEO or chief financial officer?” and “How should compensation be determined?” are as varied as the backgrounds of the executives who head up the public companies based in Northern Colorado.

According to an analysis by The Northern Colorado Business Report, Bruce J. Hach, president and chief operating officer of the Hach Co., a Loveland-based designer of water-analysis systems, is the region’s top executive officer based on return on compensation. Here’s how we arrived at that assessment:

The traditional measure of performance in a public company…