Chief Executive Officer and President · Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (CBOE)

Craig Donohue

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Craig Donohue as a named executive officer of Cboe Global Markets; 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

$18,347,037

1st of 8 named executive officers at Cboe Global Markets by FY2025 total.

8 named officers on file for Cboe Global Markets, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 2, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Craig Donohue compensation by year

Cboe Global Markets Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Cboe Global Markets reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$846,970
Bonus$0
Stock awards$14,742,574
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$2,553,699
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$203,795
Total$18,347,037

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Cboe Global Markets, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 2, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-022939, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Cboe Global Markets, Inc. filed document, accession 0001628280-26-022939. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 2, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU14,048$3,526,048—
RSU12,808$3,214,808—
PSU1,184$297,184—

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

Cboe Global Markets’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Craig Donohue · this pageChief Executive Officer and President$18,347,037
Fredric TomczykFormer Chief Executive Officer$11,666,184
David HowsonFormer Executive Vice President, Global President$6,022,543
Christopher IsaacsonExecutive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer$5,284,997
Jill GriebenowExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$4,465,234
Catherine ClayFormer Executive Vice President, Head of Global Derivatives$3,040,388
Patrick SextonExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$2,930,669
Timothy LipscombExecutive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer$2,170,190

Board service

Cboe Global Markets board · FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Cboe Global Markets pays directors a $90,000 cash retainer and $170,000 in RSUs. As stated in Cboe Global Markets's FY2025 proxy.

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