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.
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.
| Named executive officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension / NQDC | All other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issa Jouaneh | $448,952 | $297,533 | $1,075,522 | $1,406,563 | $236,250 | $0 | $11,180 | $3,476,000 |
| President, Connections | ||||||||
| Hervé Sedky | 650,000 | 472,500 | 1,171,123 | 0 | 367,500 | 0 | 7,950 | 2,669,073 |
| Chief Executive Officer | ||||||||
| David Doft | 480,000 | 351,000 | 869,980 | 0 | 273,000 | 0 | 7,950 | 1,981,930 |
| 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.
| Named executive officer | FY2025 total | FY2024 total | FY2023 total | Δ FY2024→2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issa Jouaneh | $3,476,000 | $716,934 | $751,730 | +2,759,066 |
| Hervé Sedky | 2,669,073 | 1,130,450 | 6,224,816 | +1,538,623 |
| David Doft | 1,981,930 | 1,038,950 | 4,478,335 | +942,980 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issa Jouaneh | Option | 600,000 | 4.13 | — |
| Issa Jouaneh | Option | 90,000 | 3.81 | — |
| Hervé Sedky | Option | 210,000 | 6 | — |
| David Doft | Option | 147,000 | 6 | — |
| Issa Jouaneh | Option | 30,000 | 8 | — |
| Hervé Sedky | Option | 2,008,002 | 3.81 | — |
| Hervé Sedky | Option | 210,000 | 8 | — |
| Hervé Sedky | RSU | 283,565 | — | 1,267,536 |
| Issa Jouaneh | Option | 30,000 | 3.7 | — |
| Issa Jouaneh | RSU | 260,417 | — | 1,164,064 |
| David Doft | RSU | 17,940 | — | 80,192 |
| David Doft | RSU | 210,649 | — | 941,601 |
| Issa Jouaneh | Option | 15,000 | 5.75 | — |
| David Doft | RSU | 156,600 | — | 700,000 |
| Hervé Sedky | RSU | 67,529 | — | 301,853 |
| Hervé Sedky | Option | 246,076 | 5.26 | — |
| David Doft | Option | 147,000 | 8 | — |
| David Doft | Option | 174,987 | 5.26 | — |
| David Doft | Option | 1,366,270 | 3.81 | — |
| Issa Jouaneh | Option | 15,000 | 6 | — |
| Issa Jouaneh | Option | 15,000 | 8 | — |
| Issa Jouaneh | Option | 30,000 | 6 | — |
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 policy | true |
| Anti-hedging | true |
| Anti-pledging | true |
| Meeting year | Meeting date | For | Against | Abstain | Support | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026-05-21 | 189,521,520 | 437,532 | 11,451 | 99.77% | Passed |
| 2023 | 2023-05-17 | 122,939,879 | 578,667 | 9,326 | 99.53% | 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.
| Meeting year | Meeting date | Approval — company's computation |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026-05-21 | 99.77%a |
| 2023 | 2023-05-17 | 99.53%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.
| Director | Cash fees | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | All other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kosty GilisIndependent · Compensation Committee · Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | $0 |
| Anthony MunkIndependent | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 |
| 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 |
| Component | FY2025 |
|---|---|
| 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.
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 | Emerald Holding | 2025 | Hervé 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.
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, Issa Jouaneh | DEF 14A | 2026-04-09 | 0001193125-26-149591 | Section “EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION TABLES” · page 27. As printed: 3,476,000. Filing ↗machine: r8 · c23 · span 529202–529211 |
| 2 | Section 01, Hervé Sedky | DEF 14A | 2026-04-09 | 0001193125-26-149591 | Section “EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION TABLES” · page 27. As printed: 2,669,073. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c23 · span 477053–477062 |
| 3 | Section 01, David Doft | DEF 14A | 2026-04-09 | 0001193125-26-149591 | Section “EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION TABLES” · page 27. As printed: 1,981,930. Filing ↗machine: r5 · c23 · span 503131–503140 |
| 4 | Section 08, Kosty Gilis | DEF 14A | 2026-04-09 | 0001193125-26-149591 | Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗ |
| 5 | Section 08, Anthony Munk | DEF 14A | 2026-04-09 | 0001193125-26-149591 | Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗ |
| 6 | Section 06, 2026 vote | Form 8-K | 2026-05-26 | 0001193125-26-239223 | Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 99.77% (votes for as printed: 189,521,520). Filing ↗ |
| 7 | Section 06, 2023 vote | Form 8-K | 2023-05-19 | 0000950170-23-023154 | Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 99.53% (votes for as printed: 122,939,879). Filing ↗ |
| 8 | Section 01 trend, Δ column (computed) | Computed | — | computed | Δ = current-FY total − prior-FY total per named officer.machine: formula: Δ = FY(n) − FY(n−1) |
| 9 | Section 09b board cost (computed) | Computed | — | computed | Cash 0 + equity 0 + all other 0 = 0, summed across the director compensation table rows.machine: formula: Σ = 0 |
| 10 | Emerald Holding (subject), Section 10b CEO total | DEF 14A | 2026-04-09 | 0001193125-26-149591 | CEO total compensation as printed in Emerald Holding's own proxy. As printed: 2,669,073. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c23 · span 477053–477062 |