Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer · KOPIN CORP (KOPN)

Erich Manz

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Erich Manz as a named executive officer of KOPIN; 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

$973,656

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 22, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Erich Manz compensation by year

KOPIN Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as KOPIN reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$85,385
Bonus$30,000
Stock awards$856,000
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$2,271
Total$973,656

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: KOPIN CORP DEF 14A filed April 22, 2026, accession 0001493152-26-018400, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU400,000$952,000—
PSU400,000$400,000—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in KOPIN CORP's FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments KOPIN discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control, no termination—$952,000$0$952,000

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

KOPIN’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Michael MurrayPresident and Chief Executive Officer$2,257,423
Erich Manz · this pageTreasurer and Chief Financial Officer$973,656
Paul BakerChief Operating Officer of Kopin Government and Industrial and Strategic Business Officer$715,997
Richard SneiderTreasurer and Chief Financial Officer (terminating September 1, 2025)$519,459

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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 KOPIN'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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