President and Chief Financial Officer · Golden Entertainment, Inc. (GDEN)

Charles Protell

A named executive officer of Golden Entertainment in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2024. 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, FY2024

$3,271,490

FY2023: $3,582,065

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Golden Entertainment by FY2024 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 9, 2025 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Charles Protell compensation by year

Golden Entertainment Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Golden Entertainment reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024
Salary$775,577$785,000$785,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,962,479$2,094,407$2,407,361
Option awards$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$808,532$625,994$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$75,651$76,664$79,129
Total$3,622,239$3,582,065$3,271,490

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Golden Entertainment, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 9, 2025, accession 0001071255-25-000033, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the Golden Entertainment, Inc. filed document, accession 0001071255-25-000033. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 9, 2025.

$3.6M
$3.6M
$3.3M
FY22
FY23
FY24
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU35,340$1,116,744—
RSU18,204$575,246—
RSU17,514$553,442—
RSU17,276$545,922—
RSU6,428$203,125—
Option150,000—$10.57
Option25,000—$11.50

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Golden Entertainment, Inc.'s FY2024 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

27 Form 4 lines since the FY2024 proxy (filed April 9, 2025)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-04-30Disposition to the issuer—696,821—0
2026-04-29Exercise or conversion—40,890$0.00877,209
2026-04-29Exercise or conversion—11,780$0.00769,712
2026-04-29Exercise or conversion—29,144$0.00798,856
2026-04-29Exercise or conversion—37,463$0.00836,319
2026-04-29Exercise or conversion—25,000$11.50757,932
2026-04-29Exercise or conversion—150,000$10.57732,932
2026-04-29Exercise or conversion derivative—25,000$0.000

The 8 most recent of 27 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 →

Golden Entertainment’s named executive officers, FY2024

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2024 total
Blake SartiniChief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors$5,404,137
Charles Protell · this pagePresident and Chief Financial Officer$3,271,490
Stephen ArcanaFormer Chief Development Officer$2,330,465
Blake Sartini IIExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$1,801,922
Thomas HaasFormer Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer$620,553

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