Vice Chair and Chief Product Officer · Designer Brands Inc. (DBI)

Deborah Ferré

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Deborah Ferré as a named executive officer of Designer Brands; 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

$4,034,574

3rd of 7 named executive officers at Designer Brands by FY2025 total.

7 named officers on file for Designer Brands, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed May 7, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Deborah Ferré compensation by year

Designer Brands Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Designer Brands reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$1,030,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$2,583,334
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$406,850
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$14,390
Total$4,034,574

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Designer Brands Inc. DEF 14A filed May 7, 2026, accession 0001319947-26-000032, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Designer Brands Inc. filed document, accession 0001319947-26-000032. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed May 7, 2026.

Designer Brands’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Douglas HoweChief Executive Officer$7,919,728
Jay SchottensteinExecutive Chairman$6,410,223
Deborah Ferré · this pageVice Chair and Chief Product Officer$4,034,574
Deborah FerréeVice Chair and Chief Product Officer$4,034,574
Andrea O'DonnellExecutive Vice President, President, Brands$2,203,635
Jared PoffFormer Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer$1,705,152
Mark HaleySenior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, Interim Principal Financial Officer$991,044

Board service

Designer Brands board · FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Designer Brands pays directors a $90,000 cash retainer and $165,000 in Stock Units. As stated in Designer Brands's FY2026 proxy.

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