CEO total pay
$68,279,532
Michael J Arougheti · 2025
Say on pay
92.3%
Latest disclosed shareholder vote
CEO pay ratio
Item 402(u)346 to 1
Median employee: $197,440
Compensation committee
CD&ANot extracted
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.
| Executive | Role | TotalYoY | Pay mix | Salary | Stock | Cash incentive | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael J Arougheti2025 compensation | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | $68,279,532↓ 20% | 73% at-risk | — | $49,520,000 | — | $18,759,532 |
Jarrod Phillips2025 compensation | Chief Financial Officer | $9,793,670↑ 4% | 89% at-risk | $750,000 | $7,966,478 | — | $288,442 |
R. Kipp deVeer,2025 compensation | President | $71,930,731↓ 19% | 69% at-risk | — | $49,520,000 | — | $22,410,731 |
Blair Jacobson,2025 compensation | President | $49,818,246 | 68% at-risk | $472,710 | $33,673,600 | — | $15,671,936 |
Ryan Berry2025 compensation | Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer | $11,811,608↑ 78% | 67% at-risk | $1,000,000 | $7,923,200 | — | $2,888,408 |
Naseem Sagati Aghili2025 compensation | General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | $7,828,839 | 78% at-risk | $750,000 | $5,301,542 | — | $988,547 |
Pay mix: base cash incentive equity other
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Compensation discussion & analysis
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Governance
Policy guardrails
clawback
present
“Clawback Policy”
compensation consultant
Role of Compensation Consultant
“Role of Compensation Consultant”
compensation committee
This includes recommending certain carried interest and incentive fee awards to the compensation committee and the Board
“This includes recommending certain carried interest and incentive fee awards to the compensation committee and the Board”
Performance markers
Metric facts
revenue
$1
“Rules. Please see “Corporate Governance and Other Board Information—Clawback Policy” for a discussion of the Company’s clawback policy. Accounting and Tax Considerations We consider the impact of accounting implications …”
say on pay
92.3%
“votes cast in favor of our 2025 say-on-pay resolution.”
ceo pay ratio
346 to 1
“our CEO for 2025 was $68,279,532. Our pay ratio may not be comparable to the CEO pay ratios presented by other companies. We believe our methodology most accurately reflects the incentives provided to our executives and …”
median employee compensation
$197,440
“applied compensation measure. •After identifying the median employee based on total compensation, we calculated annual total compensation for that employee using the same methodology we used for our NEOs as set forth in …”
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