Former Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer · Designer Brands Inc. (DBI)

Jared Poff

A named executive officer of Designer Brands in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 to FY2025. 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

$1,705,152

FY2024: $1,448,594

6th of 7 named executive officers at Designer Brands by FY2025 total.

7 named officers on file for Designer Brands, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed May 7, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Jared Poff compensation by year

Designer Brands Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Designer Brands reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$365,385$407,692$431,154$525,000$492,692$546,154$592,308$698,077$700,000$527,423
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$164,980$149,973$437,434$749,909$1,334,655$599,974$1,360,015$999,992$733,327$1,166,667
Option awards$64,978$150,018$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$113,184$166,400$433,774$47,250$320,245$655,385$227,446$0$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$10,842$11,064$11,489$11,335$11,924$12,007$12,684$13,898$15,267$11,062
Total$719,369$885,147$1,313,851$1,333,494$2,159,516$1,813,520$2,192,453$1,711,967$1,448,594$1,705,152

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.

How this page was built: the Designer Brands Inc. filed document, accession 0001319947-26-000032. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed May 7, 2026.

$719K
$885K
$1.3M
$1.3M
$2.2M
$1.8M
$2.2M
$1.7M
$1.4M
$1.7M
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU168,156$845,825—
PSU34,582$173,947—

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.

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 FerréVice Chair and Chief Product Officer$4,034,574
Deborah FerréeVice Chair and Chief Product Officer$4,034,574
Andrea O'DonnellExecutive Vice President, President, Brands$2,203,635
Jared Poff · this pageFormer 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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