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ACI WORLDWIDE, INC.ACIW

Latest proxy: 2026 · view on SEC ↗ · CIK 0000935036

CEO total pay

$14,999,961

Thomas W. Warsop III · 2025

Say on pay

Not disclosed

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CEO pay ratio

Item 402(u)

157 to 1

Median employee: $95,668

Compensation committee

CD&A

Compensation Committee

Per the latest proxy

Filings indexed: 2 · 2026 · 2025

Executive pay

What did they pay them?

From the Summary Compensation Table. Pay mix and YoY are computed from these rows.

ExecutiveRoleTotalYoYPay mixSalaryStockCash incentiveOther
Thomas W. Warsop III2025 compensation
President and Chief Executive Officer
$14,999,961
95% at-risk
$750,000$13,204,027$1,018,875$27,059
Scott W. Behrens2025 compensation
Former Chief Financial Officer
$7,738,029↑ 50%
93% at-risk
$515,000$6,485,973$699,628$37,428
Robert W. Leibrock2025 compensation
Named executive officer
$9,194,443
97% at-risk
$265,000$8,599,955$319,406$10,042
Abraham Kuruvilla2025 compensation
Chief Technology Officer
$3,937,543↓ 9%
87% at-risk
$470,000$2,866,224$574,646$26,674
Ronald C. Shultz2025 compensation
Named executive officer
$2,770,314
85% at-risk
$410,000$2,001,267$349,678$9,369
Alessandro Silva2025 compensation
Former Chief Revenue Officer
$2,661,872↓ 13%
87% at-risk
$345,000$2,189,901$118,823$8,148
Erich J. Litch2025 compensation
Named executive officer
$2,629,072
84% at-risk
$407,500$1,823,950$388,531$9,091

Pay mix: base cash incentive equity other

CD&A excerpt

Compensation discussion & analysis

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This Compensation Discussion and Analysis describes the material elements of our executive compensation program during 2025 and provides an overview of our executive compensation philosophy, core principles and objectives. We also discuss how and why the Compensation Committee arrived at the specific compensation decisions for our named executive officers (“Named Executive Officers” or “NEOs”), including the key factors that the Compensation Committee considered. Our Named Executive Officers for fiscal 2025 were: • Thomas W. Warsop, our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) • Robert Leibrock, our Chief Financial Officer (our “CFO”) • Ronald Shultz, our General Manager, ACI Speedpay (our “GM ACI Speedpay”) • Erich Litch, our General Manager, Payment Software (our “GM Payment Software”) • Abraham Kuruvilla, our former Chief Technology Officer (our “Former CTO”)(1) • Scott Behrens, our former Chief Financial Officer (our “Former CFO”)(2) • Alessandro Silva, our former Chief Revenue Officer (“our Former CRO)(3) (1) As announced on January 13, 2026, Mr. Kuruvilla’s employment ceased on January 15, 2026. (2) On May 8, 2025, we announced Mr. Behrens’ retirement. He stopped serving as our CFO an…

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Governance

Policy guardrails

  • hedging

    prohibited

    “Prohibition on Hedging and Pledging We have a policy that prohibits “short” sales and the use of derivatives by employees and directors”

  • pledging

    prohibited

    “Prohibition on Hedging and Pledging We have a policy that prohibits “short” sales and the use of derivatives by employees and directors”

  • clawback

    present

    “recoupment policy that applies to incentive compensation received before October 2, 2023, and to all award recipients, including Named Executive Officers”

  • stock ownership guidelines

    present

    “Stock Ownership Guidelines”

  • change in control

    Severance and Change in Control Arrangements

    “Severance and Change in Control Arrangements”

  • compensation consultant

    independent

    “For 2025, the Compensation Committee continued to retain Compensia, Inc. (“Compensia”), a national independent compensation consulting firm, to serve as its compensation consultant”

  • compensation committee

    Compensation Committee

    “The Compensation Committee is responsible for”

Performance markers

Metric facts

  • revenue

    $118

    “award under a sales incentive plan. His target award opportunity was $230,000, which was 50% of his base salary at the beginning of 2025, when the sales incentive plan was set. His sales incentive plan was composed of se…”

  • ceo pay ratio

    157 to 1

    “of the 2025 Summary Compensation Table, set forth above in this proxy statement. As disclosed in the 2025 Summary Compensation Table, the annual total compensation for fiscal year 2025 for our CEO was $14,999,961 The ann…”

  • median employee compensation

    $95,668

    “we used to calculate the amount reported for our Named Executive Officers in the “Total” column of the 2025 Summary Compensation Table, set forth above in this proxy statement. As disclosed in the 2025 Summary Compensati…”

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