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

Deborah Ferrée

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Deborah Ferrée 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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$4,034,574

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed May 7, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Deborah Ferrée 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.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU505,890$2,544,627—
RSU122,513$616,240—
PSU88,027$442,776—
PSU31,438$158,133—
Option191,385—$37.50
Option359,935—$19.02
Option212,680—$27.00

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

1 Form 4 line since the FY2025 proxy (filed May 7, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-07-08Grant or award derivative—8,221$0.0049,249

The 1 most recent of 1 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 →

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 Ferrée · this pageVice Chair and Chief Product Officer$4,034,574
Deborah FerréVice 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

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Designer Brands's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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