Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary · Ziff Davis, Inc. (ZD)

Jeremy D. Rossen

A named executive officer of Ziff Davis in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,611,287

FY2023: $1,813,753

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 26, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Jeremy D. Rossen compensation by year

Ziff Davis Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Ziff Davis reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2025
Salary$500,000$500,000
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$1,069,131$1,864,467
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$217,518$213,200
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$27,104$33,620
Total$1,813,753$2,611,287

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Ziff Davis, Inc. DEF 14A filed March 26, 2026, accession 0001084048-26-000016, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$1.8M
$2.6M
FY23
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Insider transactions since the last proxy

6 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed March 26, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-08-10Sale—3,819$54.9310,643
2026-06-05Sale—8,000$47.0014,462
2026-05-28Sale—4,347$45.7522,462
2026-03-03Tax withholding—570$41.4819,910
2026-03-03Exercise or conversion derivative—1,385$0.000
2026-03-03Exercise or conversion—1,385$0.0020,480

The 6 most recent of 6 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 Ziff Davis discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,650,000$1,786,675$26,870$3,788,545
Death$0$1,259,741$0$1,584,741
Involuntary termination without cause$825,000$512,241$26,870$1,689,111

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

Ziff Davis’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Vivek ShahPresident & Chief Executive Officer$11,767,948
Bret RichterChief Financial Officer$4,802,357
Jeremy D. Rossen · this pageExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary$2,611,287
Lori TansleyChief Accounting Officer$1,069,345

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