Co-President · Ares Management Corp (ARES)

Blair Jacobson

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Blair Jacobson as a named executive officer of Ares Management; 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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$49,818,246

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 21, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Blair Jacobson compensation by year

Ares Management Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Ares Management reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$472,710
Bonus$0
Stock awards$33,673,600
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$15,671,936
Total$49,818,246

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Ares Management Corp DEF 14A filed April 21, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-026286, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU426,312$68,904,809—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

2 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 21, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-08-20Gift—8,000$0.001,095,221
2026-06-03Gift—8,000$0.001,103,221

The 2 most recent of 2 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 →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Ares Management discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death—$34,962,509—$34,962,509
Involuntary termination without cause—$17,183,209—$17,183,209
Retirement—$1,020,209—$1,020,209
Disability—$34,962,509—$34,962,509

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Ares Management Corp's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Ares Management’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
R. Kipp deVeerDirector and Co-President$71,930,731
Michael AroughetiDirector, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer$68,279,532
Blair Jacobson · this pageCo-President$49,818,246
Ryan BerryChief Marketing and Strategy Officer$11,811,608
Jarrod PhillipsChief Financial Officer$9,793,670
Naseem Sagati AghiliGeneral Counsel and Corporate Secretary$7,828,839

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Ares Management's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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