Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG)

Armin Zerza

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Armin Zerza as a named executive officer of Warner Music; the record below is that year, complete. 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, FY2025

$12,340,581

2nd of 6 named executive officers at Warner Music by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for Warner Music, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed January 20, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Armin Zerza compensation by year

Warner Music Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Warner Music reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$484,615
Bonus$1,847,648
Stock awards$10,000,010
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$8,308
Total$12,340,581

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Warner Music Group Corp. DEF 14A filed January 20, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-001664, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Warner Music Group Corp. filed document, accession 0001140361-26-001664. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed January 20, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU218,341$7,436,694—
Option471,698—$27.48

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Warner Music Group Corp.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

3 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed January 20, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-05-21Gift—27,521$0.00408,666
2026-05-12Grant or award—209,132$0.00463,251
2026-05-12Tax withholding—27,064$33.60436,187

The 3 most recent of 3 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Warner Music’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Robert KynclChief Executive Officer$15,909,250
Armin Zerza · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$12,340,581
Guy MootCo-Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Warner Chappell Music$6,003,921
Carianne MarshallCo-Chair and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Chappell Music$5,372,455
Carletta HigginsonExecutive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer$4,782,970
Bryan CastellaniFormer Chief Financial Officer$4,696,813

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