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Compensation Brief
Fiscal year 2025 · Filings through 2026-05-26

Emerald Holding (EEX)

Fiscal year 2025 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.

$3,476,000
Issa Jouaneh total, FY2025
President, Connectionshighest-paid officer; CEO Hervé Sedky: $2,669,073
CEO (Hervé Sedky) pay percentile vs peers
CEO-to-median pay ratio
99.77%
Say-on-pay support, latest vote
Companies that benchmark against EEX
2 companies name EEX as a compensation peer

Each company listed discloses EEX 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 EEX in an earlier year and no longer does, and one whose own most recent disclosure is older than the last two seasons.

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Summary Compensation Table — fiscal year 2025

Named executive officerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension / NQDCAll otherTotal
Issa Jouaneh$448,952$297,533$1,075,522$1,406,563$236,250$0$11,180$3,476,000
President, Connections
Hervé Sedky650,000472,5001,171,1230367,50007,9502,669,073
Chief Executive Officer
David Doft480,000351,000869,9800273,00007,9501,981,930
Chief Financial Officer

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.

Three-year trend — total compensation per named executive

Named executive officerFY2025 totalFY2024 totalFY2023 totalΔ FY20242025
Issa Jouaneh$3,476,000$716,934$751,730+2,759,066
Hervé Sedky2,669,0731,130,4506,224,816+1,538,623
David Doft1,981,9301,038,9504,478,335+942,980

Prior-year totals as disclosed in the corresponding proxy; deltas are computed values with the derivation shown in the register.

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Equity transactions since the proxy statement was filed

No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.

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Outstanding equity awards at fiscal year-end 2025

ExecutiveAwardShares unvestedExercise priceMarket value unvested
Issa JouanehOption600,0004.13
Issa JouanehOption90,0003.81
Hervé SedkyOption210,0006
David DoftOption147,0006
Issa JouanehOption30,0008
Hervé SedkyOption2,008,0023.81
Hervé SedkyOption210,0008
Hervé SedkyRSU283,5651,267,536
Issa JouanehOption30,0003.7
Issa JouanehRSU260,4171,164,064
David DoftRSU17,94080,192
David DoftRSU210,649941,601
Issa JouanehOption15,0005.75
David DoftRSU156,600700,000
Hervé SedkyRSU67,529301,853
Hervé SedkyOption246,0765.26
David DoftOption147,0008
David DoftOption174,9875.26
David DoftOption1,366,2703.81
Issa JouanehOption15,0006
Issa JouanehOption15,0008
Issa JouanehOption30,0006
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Incentive-plan design — the Compensation Discussion & Analysis

The Company's compensation program is designed to attract and retain quality executive officers by setting base salaries competitive with the market and utilizing equity awards to encourage stockholder value creation and retention, operating similarly to a privately-owned company with larger awards issued every few years rather than annually.

CEO STI target (% of salary)
CEO LTI target (% of salary)
Independent consultant
Clawback policytrue
Anti-hedgingtrue
Anti-pledgingtrue
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Say-on-pay — recent advisory votes

Meeting yearMeeting dateForAgainstAbstainSupportOutcome
20262026-05-21189,521,520437,53211,45199.77%Passed
20232023-05-17122,939,879578,6679,32699.53%Passed

Rows are labeled by annual-meeting year, with the meeting date beside each; the vote held in a given year acts on the prior fiscal year's compensation.

Say-on-pay — history, company's computation

Meeting yearMeeting dateApproval — company's computation
20262026-05-2199.77%a
20232023-05-1799.53%b

a. Approved under the standard stated in the filing — “For purposes of this non-binding advisory vote, any shares not voted (whether by abstention, broker non-vote, or otherwise) will not be counted as a vote cast and will have no impact on the result of the vote, although abstentions will count toward the presence of a quorum.”.

b. Approved under the standard stated in the filing — “For purposes of this non-binding advisory vote, any shares not voted (whether by abstention, broker non-vote, or otherwise) will not be counted as a vote cast and will have no impact on the result of the vote, although abstentions will count toward the presence of a quorum.”.

Approval percentages are the company's own reported computations under its own stated standard, not recomputed by Velarion. Where a company does not state a standard, none is assumed.

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Director compensation — fiscal year 2025

DirectorCash feesStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentiveAll otherTotal
Kosty GilisIndependent · Compensation Committee · Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee$0$0$0
Anthony MunkIndependent000
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Board fee structure and ownership guideline

Annual cash retainer$175,000
Annual equity retainer
Per board meeting fee
Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov)25,000 / 15,000
Stock ownership guideline$4
09b

Total cost of the board

ComponentFY2025
Cash retainers and fees$0
Equity awards (grant-date value)$0
All other compensation$0
Total cost of the board$0

Computed as the sum of the director compensation table rows above; inputs and formula shown in the register.

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Chief executive pay against the peer group

Most recent fiscal-year chief executive compensation at each disclosed peer, taken from that company's own proxy statement.

RankCompanyFYChief executiveSalaryStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentiveTotal
1Emerald Holding2025Hervé Sedky$650,000$1,171,123$0$367,500$2,669,073

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.

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Source register

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.

#SupportsDocumentFiledAccessionLocation in document
1Section 01, Issa JouanehDEF 14A2026-04-090001193125-26-149591Section “EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION TABLES” · page 27. As printed: 3,476,000. Filing ↗machine: r8 · c23 · span 529202–529211
2Section 01, Hervé SedkyDEF 14A2026-04-090001193125-26-149591Section “EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION TABLES” · page 27. As printed: 2,669,073. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c23 · span 477053–477062
3Section 01, David DoftDEF 14A2026-04-090001193125-26-149591Section “EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION TABLES” · page 27. As printed: 1,981,930. Filing ↗machine: r5 · c23 · span 503131–503140
4Section 08, Kosty GilisDEF 14A2026-04-090001193125-26-149591Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗
5Section 08, Anthony MunkDEF 14A2026-04-090001193125-26-149591Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗
6Section 06, 2026 voteForm 8-K2026-05-260001193125-26-239223Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 99.77% (votes for as printed: 189,521,520). Filing ↗
7Section 06, 2023 voteForm 8-K2023-05-190000950170-23-023154Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 99.53% (votes for as printed: 122,939,879). Filing ↗
8Section 01 trend, Δ column (computed)ComputedcomputedΔ = current-FY total − prior-FY total per named officer.machine: formula: Δ = FY(n) − FY(n−1)
9Section 09b board cost (computed)ComputedcomputedCash 0 + equity 0 + all other 0 = 0, summed across the director compensation table rows.machine: formula: Σ = 0
10Emerald Holding (subject), Section 10b CEO totalDEF 14A2026-04-090001193125-26-149591CEO total compensation as printed in Emerald Holding's own proxy. As printed: 2,669,073. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c23 · span 477053–477062