Chief Executive Officer and President · Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (AXTA)

Chris Villavarayan

A named executive officer of Axalta Coating Systems in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2025. 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

$9,551,721

FY2024: $9,823,635

1st of 5 named executive officers at Axalta Coating Systems by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 21, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Chris Villavarayan compensation by year

Axalta Coating Systems Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Axalta Coating Systems reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$1,000,000$1,089,231$1,100,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$6,397,949$6,669,447$7,389,552
Option awards$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$1,940,000$1,982,750$973,391
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$356,056$82,207$88,778
Total$9,694,005$9,823,635$9,551,721

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. DEF 14A filed April 21, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-166838, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-166838. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 21, 2026.

$9.7M
$9.8M
$9.6M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU96,354$3,113,198—
RSU88,583$2,862,117—
RSU83,127$2,685,833—
RSU78,740$2,544,089—
PSU56,879$1,837,760—
RSU49,262$1,591,655—
RSU25,280$816,797—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Axalta Coating Systems discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$6,122,750$0$36,581$6,159,331
Change in control and involuntary termination$7,590,000$17,300,745$54,871$24,945,616
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$6,122,750$0$36,581$6,159,331
Change in control and resignation for good reason$7,590,000$17,300,745$54,871$24,945,616
Death$0$16,025,308$0$16,025,308
Disability$0$16,025,308$0$16,025,308

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

Axalta Coating Systems’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Chris Villavarayan · this pageChief Executive Officer and President$9,551,721
Carl Anderson IISenior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$3,121,588
Troy WeaverPresident, Global Refinish$2,179,340
Timothy BowesPresident, Global Industrial Coatings$2,089,201
Hadi AwadaPresident, Global Mobility Coatings$1,988,054

Board service

Axalta Coating Systems board · FY2023–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Axalta Coating Systems pays directors a $75,000 cash retainer and $200,000 in RSUs. As stated in Axalta Coating Systems's FY2025 proxy.

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