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1. Stephen MacMillan, HologicCompensation Rank: 4Company Performance Rank: 18Hologic provided MacMillan with generous awards to recruit him in December 2013, during the first quarter of Hologic’s fiscal year ended September 27, 2014. Much of the $24.5 million compensation the former Stryker CEO received came from $15.3 million in stock awards under MacMillan’s employment agreement.It was slow going, however, under MacMillan’s initial leadership of the Bedford, MA–based diagnostic and medical imaging equipment maker. Revenue only grew 1.5% during the 2014 fiscal year, 14th among the 18 companies analyzed, and earnings of $17.3 million were less than 1% of revenue from the previous year—though it did mark a turnaround from the nearly $1.2 billion that Hologic lost during the 2013 fiscal year.MacMillan, however, appears to be more than earning his keep this year. Hologic had the best performing stock among large medical device companies during the first nine months of 2015. Its stock value was up more than 45% during the time period. Hologic says it has been seeing accelerated adoption of its FDA-approved Genius 3D mammography systems. 3-D imaging is able to detect 41% more invasive cancers than standard 2-D imaging, according to Hologic.Continue >>