Former Executive Vice President, Global President · Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (CBOE)

David Howson

A named executive officer of Cboe Global Markets in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2020 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

$6,022,543

FY2024: $6,506,669

3rd of 8 named executive officers at Cboe Global Markets by FY2025 total.

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

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David Howson compensation by year

Cboe Global Markets Summary Compensation Table · all 6 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Cboe Global Markets reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$575,400$567,000$601,000$625,000$625,000$366,951
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$650,090$1,459,587$2,724,861$3,058,526$4,427,097$5,499,750
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$784,055$1,055,025$1,281,720$978,480$1,132,684—
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$0$675$179,156$294,250$321,888$155,842
Total$2,009,545$3,082,287$4,786,737$4,956,256$6,506,669$6,022,543

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.

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.

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Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU30,343$7,616,093—

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 DonohueChief Executive Officer and President$18,347,037
Fredric TomczykFormer Chief Executive Officer$11,666,184
David Howson · this pageFormer 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

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