Executive Vice President, Head of Retail Life and Annuity Solutions · LINCOLN NATIONAL CORP (LNC)

Brian Kroll

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Brian Kroll as a named executive officer of LINCOLN NATIONAL; 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

$5,290,229

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 16, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Brian Kroll compensation by year

LINCOLN NATIONAL Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as LINCOLN NATIONAL reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$850,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$1,817,768
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$2,442,800
Pension and deferred compensation$52
All other$179,608
Total$5,290,229

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: LINCOLN NATIONAL CORP DEF 14A filed April 16, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-157983, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments LINCOLN NATIONAL discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Retirement$0$4,404,329$0$6,847,129
Change in control and involuntary termination$4,800,000$4,404,329—$12,537,910
Involuntary termination without cause$3,600,000$4,404,329—$10,576,157
Involuntary for cause$0$0$0$0
Disability$0$4,404,329$0$6,847,129
Death$0$4,404,329$0$6,952,757

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

LINCOLN NATIONAL’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Ellen CooperPresident and CEO$27,991,242
Christopher NeczyporExecutive Vice President and CFO$7,683,635
James ReidExecutive Vice President and President, Workplace Solutions$7,352,626
Brian Kroll · this pageExecutive Vice President, Head of Retail Life and Annuity Solutions$5,290,229
Sean WoodroffeExecutive Vice President and Chief People, Communications and Enterprise Services Officer$5,174,138

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How this record is built

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