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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$973,656

2nd of 4 named executive officers at Kopin by FY2025 total.

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

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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.

How this page was built: the KOPIN CORP filed document, accession 0001493152-26-018400. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 22, 2026.

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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