Director, President and Chief Executive Officer · Avantor, Inc. (AVTR)

Emmanuel Ligner

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Emmanuel Ligner as a named executive officer of Avantor; 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

$5,895,624

4th of 6 named executive officers at Avantor by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for Avantor, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 27, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-07.

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Emmanuel Ligner compensation by year

Avantor Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Avantor reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$379,297
Bonus$0
Stock awards$2,499,990
Option awards$2,499,998
Non-equity incentive$330,038
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$186,301
Total$5,895,624

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Avantor, Inc. DEF 14A filed March 27, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-021572, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Avantor, Inc. filed document, accession 0001628280-26-021572. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 27, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU195,924$2,245,289—
Option573,394—$14.04

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Avantor, Inc.'s FY2025 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 March 27, 2026)
current to 2026-11-07 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-08-18Tax withholding—29,803$13.33737,334

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 →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Avantor discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death$4,088,063$2,245,289$0$6,333,352
Involuntary termination without cause$5,110,079$0$0$6,643,102
Disability$4,088,063$2,245,289$0$6,333,352
Change in control and involuntary termination$7,665,118$2,245,289$0$11,443,431

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

Avantor’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Michael StubblefieldFormer Chief Executive Officer$13,077,931
R. Brent JonesExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$6,538,667
Corey WalkerPresident Laboratory Solutions$5,987,816
Emmanuel Ligner · this pageDirector, President and Chief Executive Officer$5,895,624
Benoit GourdierExecutive Vice President Bioscience Production$5,225,419
Claudius SokenuExecutive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer$3,749,913

Board service

Avantor board · FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Avantor pays directors a $95,000 cash retainer and $210,000 in RSUs. As stated in Avantor's FY2025 proxy.

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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 Avantor'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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