Fiscal year 2024 executive and director compensation, incentive-plan design, equity activity, and governance — every figure in this brief is traceable to its exact location in the company’s SEC filing — the document, the section, the page, and the table, linked directly.
Each company listed discloses BZAI in its own benchmarking peer group, as disclosed in each company's most recent proxy statement within the last two proxy seasons. Two companies are therefore absent by design: one that named BZAI in an earlier year and no longer does, and one whose own most recent disclosure is older than the last two seasons.
| Named executive officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension / NQDC | All other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinakar Munagala | $595,833 | $0 | $0 | $3,798,428 | $0 | $0 | $24 | $4,394,285 |
| Chief Executive Officer | ||||||||
| Val Cook | 397,570 | 0 | 0 | 781,714 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1,179,308 |
| Chief Software Architect | ||||||||
| Santiago Fernandez-Gomez | 447,917 | 0 | 0 | 730,817 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1,178,758 |
| Vice President of Platform Engineering | ||||||||
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column; 0 means it reported zero. Figures are as printed in the filing, without adjustment.
| Named executive officer | FY2024 total | FY2023 total | FY2022 total | Δ FY2023→2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinakar Munagala | $4,394,285 | — | — | — |
| Val Cook | 1,179,308 | — | — | — |
| Santiago Fernandez-Gomez | 1,178,758 | — | — | — |
Prior-year totals as disclosed in the corresponding proxy; deltas are computed values with the derivation shown in the register.
No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.
| Executive | Award | Shares unvested | Exercise price | Market value unvested |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinakar Munagala | RSU | 2,197,372 | — | $3,124,027 |
| Val Cook | RSU | 794,866 | — | 1,112,814 |
| Santiago Fernandez-Gomez | RSU | 654,484 | — | 916,278 |
| Dinakar Munagala | Option | 7,379,065 | 0.92 | — |
| Val Cook | Option | 1,517,044 | 0.92 | — |
| Santiago Fernandez-Gomez | Option | 104 | 20.7 | — |
| Santiago Fernandez-Gomez | Option | 1,418,448 | 0.92 | — |
| CEO STI target (% of salary) | — |
|---|---|
| CEO LTI target (% of salary) | — |
| Independent consultant | — |
| Clawback policy | true |
| Anti-hedging | true |
| Anti-pledging | true |
| Annual cash retainer | — |
|---|---|
| Annual equity retainer | — |
| Per board meeting fee | — |
| Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov) | — |
| Stock ownership guideline | — |
Most recent fiscal-year chief executive compensation at each disclosed peer, taken from that company's own proxy statement.
| Rank | Company | FY | Chief executive | Salary | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blaize Holdings | 2024 | Dinakar Munagala | $595,833 | $0 | $3,798,428 | $0 | $4,394,285 |
Each peer's compensation is from its most recently filed proxy; fiscal years differ by company. Each peer's figures come from its own filings; the subject company is highlighted. Peers whose chief executive compensation is outside our coverage universe are stated as such, never left blank.
Each figure's location is given both for the eye (section · page · table · row · column) and for a script (table/row/column index and exact character span in the filed document). Any figure can be independently confirmed against the source.
| # | Supports | Document | Filed | Accession | Location in document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Section 01, Dinakar Munagala | DEF 14A | 2025-10-20 | 0001193125-25-243771 | Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 4,394,285. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c29 · span 203219–203228 |
| 2 | Section 01, Val Cook | DEF 14A | 2025-10-20 | 0001193125-25-243771 | Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 1,179,308. Filing ↗machine: r5 · c29 · span 207619–207628 |
| 3 | Section 01, Santiago Fernandez-Gomez | DEF 14A | 2025-10-20 | 0001193125-25-243771 | Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 1,178,758. Filing ↗machine: r8 · c29 · span 212029–212038 |
| 4 | Blaize Holdings (subject), Section 10b CEO total | DEF 14A | 2025-10-20 | 0001193125-25-243771 | CEO total compensation as printed in Blaize Holdings's own proxy. As printed: 4,394,285. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c29 · span 203219–203228 |