Executive Chair of the Board of Directors · SYNOPSYS, Inc. (SNPS)

Dr. Aart J. de Geus

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Dr. Aart J. de Geus as a named executive officer of SYNOPSYS; 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

$5,184,942

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed February 19, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Dr. Aart J. de Geus compensation by year

SYNOPSYS Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as SYNOPSYS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$359,615
Bonus$0
Stock awards$3,580,688
Option awards$1,237,580
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$7,058
Total$5,184,942

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: SYNOPSYS, Inc. DEF 14A filed February 19, 2026, accession 0000883241-26-000007, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

17 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed February 19, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-09-01Exercise or conversion10b5-124,641$135.88145,084
2026-09-01Sale10b5-124,641$419.44120,443
2026-09-01Exercise or conversion derivative10b5-124,641$0.000
2026-08-31Other10b5-122$360.96120,443
2026-08-31Sale10b5-125,000$441.76120,421
2026-08-31Exercise or conversion derivative10b5-125,000$0.0024,641
2026-08-31Exercise or conversion10b5-125,000$135.88145,421
2026-08-28Exercise or conversion derivative10b5-125,000$0.0049,641

The 8 most recent of 17 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 →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments SYNOPSYS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination———$0

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

SYNOPSYS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Sassine GhaziPresident and Chief Executive Officer$19,605,963
Shelagh GlaserChief Financial Officer$6,887,534
Rick MahoneyFormer Chief Revenue Officer$5,878,143
Dr. Aart J. de Geus · this pageExecutive Chair of the Board of Directors$5,184,942
Janet LeeGeneral Counsel and Corporate Secretary$3,209,183
John F. Runkel, Jr.Former General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$3,029,082

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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 SYNOPSYS'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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