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 WEST 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 WEST 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Ford | $1,200,000 | $0 | $1,164,978 | $0 | $1,327,027 | $0 | $13,408 | $3,705,413 |
| CEO and Co-Founder | ||||||||
| T. Christopher Pledger | 675,000 | 0 | 728,111 | 0 | 799,200 | 0 | 12,600 | 2,214,911 |
| CFO and CAO | ||||||||
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Ford | $3,705,413 | $3,155,393 | — | +550,020 |
| T. Christopher Pledger | 2,214,911 | 1,816,881 | — | +398,030 |
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 | Grant date | Threshold | Target | Granted | Maximum | Grant-date fair value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Ford | PRSU | — | — | — | 202,429 | — | $1,164,978 |
| Scott Ford | PRSU | — | — | — | 50,607 | — | 291,242 |
| T. Christopher Pledger | PRSU | — | — | — | 126,518 | — | 728,111 |
Grant-level vehicle detail not disclosed.
% performance-vested = PSU grant-date fair value ÷ (RSU + PSU + Options), a computed value with the derivation shown in the register.
| Executive | Award | Shares unvested | Exercise price | Market value unvested |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. Christopher Pledger | Option | 26,230 | 9.54 | — |
| T. Christopher Pledger | Option | 91,805 | 9.54 | — |
| Scott Ford | Option | 26,230 | 9.54 | — |
| Scott Ford | RSU | 202,429 | — | 823,886 |
| Scott Ford | RSU | 151,822 | — | 617,916 |
| T. Christopher Pledger | RSU | 126,518 | — | 514,928 |
| T. Christopher Pledger | RSU | 94,888 | — | 386,194 |
| Scott Ford | RSU | 50,607 | — | 205,970 |
| T. Christopher Pledger | RSU | 42,958 | — | 174,839 |
| Scott Ford | RSU | 37,955 | — | 154,477 |
| Scott Ford | RSU | 22,881 | — | 93,126 |
| T. Christopher Pledger | Option | 39,345 | 9.54 | — |
| Scott Ford | Option | 65,575 | 9.54 | — |
The Company's compensation strategy is designed to be appropriately competitive, support organizational objectives and stockholder interests, and emphasize pay-for-performance linkage. The program aligns executive interests with those of stockholders through a mix of base salary, annual cash incentives tied to financial and individual goals, and long-term equity incentives.
| CEO STI target (% of salary) | — |
|---|---|
| CEO LTI target (% of salary) | — |
| Independent consultant | KPMG LLP |
| Clawback policy | true |
| Anti-hedging | true |
| Anti-pledging | true |
| Annual cash retainer | $60,000 |
|---|---|
| Annual equity retainer | $90,000 |
| Per board meeting fee | — |
| Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov) | 20,000 / 15,000 / 15,000 |
| 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 | Westrock Coffee | 2025 | Scott Ford | $1,200,000 | $1,164,978 | $0 | $1,327,027 | $3,705,413 |
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, Scott Ford | DEF 14A | 2026-04-23 | 0001104659-26-047289 | Section “Summary Compensation Table”. As printed: 3,705,413. Filing ↗machine: r1 · c37 · span 457289–457298 |
| 2 | Section 01, T. Christopher Pledger | DEF 14A | 2026-04-23 | 0001104659-26-047289 | Section “Summary Compensation Table”. As printed: 2,214,911. Filing ↗machine: r3 · c37 · span 468676–468685 |
| 3 | Section 03, Scott Ford PRSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-23 | 0001104659-26-047289 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 454473–454482 |
| 4 | Section 03, Scott Ford PRSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-23 | 0001104659-26-047289 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 477301–477308 |
| 5 | Section 03, T. Christopher Pledger PRSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-23 | 0001104659-26-047289 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 466374–466381 |
| 6 | 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) |
| 7 | Westrock Coffee (subject), Section 10b CEO total | DEF 14A | 2026-04-23 | 0001104659-26-047289 | CEO total compensation as printed in Westrock Coffee's own proxy. As printed: 3,705,413. Filing ↗machine: r1 · c37 · span 457289–457298 |