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Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer · Universal Corp. (UVV)

Airton Hentschke

A named executive officer of Universal in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 to FY2026. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2026

$3,796,603

FY2025: $3,110,141

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed July 1, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Airton Hentschke compensation by year

Universal Summary Compensation Table · all 11 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Universal reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026
Salary$555,000$560,500$568,900$580,300$597,700$609,600$618,800$649,700$679,000$704,800$730,200
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$853,937$801,721$769,984$1,096,213$857,456$795,498$858,685$1,004,275$924,167$898,065$2,663,536
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$516,200$612,100$524,100$580,800$361,100$528,800$488,800$873,800$934,700$1,174,600$158,500
Pension and deferred compensation$112,978$142,445$119,876$220,831$282,733$374,560$-66,070$0$129,970$310,535$226,549
All other$22,557$15,758$13,406$17,197$15,017$14,399$16,462$15,636$16,866$22,141$17,818
Total$2,060,672$2,132,524$1,996,266$2,495,341$2,114,006$2,322,857$1,916,677$2,543,411$2,684,703$3,110,141$3,796,603

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Universal Corp. DEF 14A filed July 1, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-046310, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Universal Corp. filed document, accession 0001628280-26-046310. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed July 1, 2026.

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$2.0M
$2.5M
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$2.3M
$1.9M
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$3.1M
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Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2026 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU33,599$1,770,667—
RSU11,675$615,273—
RSU11,485$605,260—
PSU10,500$553,350—
PSU10,060$530,162—
PSU9,725$512,507—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Universal Corp.'s FY2026 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Universal’s named executive officers, FY2026

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2026 total
Airton Hentschke · this pageSenior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$3,796,603
Preston WignerChairman, President and Chief Executive Officer$3,179,995
Johan KronerFormer Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,349,845
Catherine ClaiborneVice President, General Counsel, and Secretary$1,164,537
J. Patrick O'KeefeSenior Vice President, Universal Ingredients, Inc.$1,014,806

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