CEO Mallorie Burak was paid $790,000 in fiscal year 2025, ↓ down 7.0% from fiscal year 2024 (SEC filing 0001104659-26-051573 ↗): 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.
$790,000 ↓ Mallorie Burak total, FY2025 | — CEO pay percentile vs peers | — CEO-to-median pay ratio | 79.93% Say-on-pay support, latest vote |
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| Named executive officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension / NQDC | All other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mallorie Burak | $395,000 | $395,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $790,000 |
| Chief Executive Officer and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mallorie Burak | $790,000 | $849,551 | — | ↓ −59,551 |
Prior-year totals as disclosed in the corresponding proxy; deltas are computed values with the derivation shown in the register.
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One page per officer: the same table above, read for one person at a time — his own figure and every fiscal year the register holds.
| Executive | Role | FY2025 total |
|---|---|---|
| Mallorie Burak | CEO | $790,000 |
One page per director: the seat, the committees and the fee table, read for one person at a time.
| Director | Role | FY2025 total |
|---|---|---|
| David Roberson | Chair of the Board | $77,187 |
| J. Michael Dodson | Independent Director | $56,225 |
| Rahul Patel | Independent Director | $56,225 |
No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.
| Executive | Award | Shares unvested | Exercise price | Market value unvested |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mallorie Burak | RSU | 1,299 | — | $5,183 |
| Mallorie Burak | RSU | 875 | — | 3,491 |
| Mallorie Burak | RSU | 625 | — | 2,494 |
To offer executive officers compensation and benefits that are competitive and meet goals of attracting, retaining and motivating highly skilled management, emphasizing long-term performance-based equity compensation over base annual salaries to conserve cash and align interests with stockholders.
| CEO STI target (% of salary) | — |
|---|---|
| CEO LTI target (% of salary) | — |
| Independent consultant | — |
| Clawback policy | — |
| Anti-hedging | — |
| Anti-pledging | — |
| Meeting year | Meeting date | For | Against | Abstain | Support | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2023-06-14 | 20,237,588 | 4,609,498 | 472,817 | 79.93% | Passed |
| 2015 | 2015-06-11 | 3,562,705 | 1,345,997 | 90,523 | 72.58% | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2023-06-14 | 79.93%a |
| 2015 | 2015-06-11 | 72.58%b |
a. Approved under the standard stated in the filing — “With respect to Proposals 6 and 7, abstentions and broker non-votes will have the effect of a vote "Against." For Proposal 1, you may vote "For all", "Withhold all" or vote "For all except" one or more of the director nominees you specify.”.
b. Voting standard not stated in the filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David RobersonIndependent · Board Chair · Audit Committee · Compensation Committee · Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee (Chair) | $75,000 | $2,187 | — | — | — | $77,187 |
| Rahul PatelIndependent · Audit Committee · Compensation Committee (Chair) · Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee | 55,000 | 1,225 | — | — | — | 56,225 |
| J. Michael DodsonIndependent · Audit Committee (Chair) · Compensation Committee · Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee | 55,000 | 1,225 | — | — | — | 56,225 |
| Mallorie BurakEmployee director | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| Annual cash retainer | $25,000 |
|---|---|
| Annual equity retainer | — |
| Per board meeting fee | — |
| Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov) | 20,000 / 15,000 / 10,000 |
| Stock ownership guideline | — |
| Component | FY2025 |
|---|---|
| Cash retainers and fees | $185,000 |
| Equity awards (grant-date value) | $4,637 |
| All other compensation | $0 |
| Total cost of the board | $189,637 |
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 | Energous | 2025 | Mallorie Burak | $395,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $790,000 |
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.
Answers are drawn only from the figures disclosed in this brief and cited to their location in the source filing. Where a figure required for an answer is not disclosed, that is stated rather than estimated.
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, Mallorie Burak | DEF 14A | 2026-04-29 | 0001104659-26-051573 | Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 790,000. Filing ↗machine: span 372464–372471 |
| 2 | Section 08, David Roberson | DEF 14A | 2026-04-29 | 0001104659-26-051573 | Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 77,187. Filing ↗machine: span 191840–191846 |
| 3 | Section 08, Rahul Patel | DEF 14A | 2026-04-29 | 0001104659-26-051573 | Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 56,225. Filing ↗machine: span 187596–187602 |
| 4 | Section 08, J. Michael Dodson | DEF 14A | 2026-04-29 | 0001104659-26-051573 | Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 56,225. Filing ↗machine: span 189659–189665 |
| 5 | Section 08, Mallorie Burak | DEF 14A | 2026-04-29 | 0001104659-26-051573 | Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗ |
| 6 | Section 06, 2023 vote | Form 8-K | 2023-06-21 | 0001193125-23-171146 | Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 79.93% (votes for as printed: 20,237,588). Filing ↗ |
| 7 | Section 06, 2015 vote | Form 8-K | 2025-06-13 | 0001104659-25-059401 | Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 72.58% (votes for as printed: 3,562,705). Filing ↗ |
| 8 | Section 01 trend, Δ column (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 | — | — | Cash 185,000 + equity 4,637 + all other 0 = 189,637, summed across the director compensation table rows.machine: formula: Σ = 189,637 |
| 10 | Energous (subject), Section 10b CEO total | DEF 14A | 2026-04-29 | 0001104659-26-051573 | CEO total compensation as printed in Energous's own proxy. As printed: 790,000. Filing ↗machine: span 372464–372471 |
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