Interim CEO and President · Discover Financial Services (DFS)

John Owen

FY2023 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for John Owen as a named executive officer of Discover Financial Services; 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, FY2023

$2,188,651

8th of 8 named executive officers at Discover Financial Services by FY2023 total.

8 named officers on file for Discover Financial Services, FY2023

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 15, 2024 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-07.

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John Owen compensation by year

Discover Financial Services Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Discover Financial Services reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023
Salary$343,462
Bonus$500,000
Stock awards$670,011
Option awards$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$675,178
Total$2,188,651

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Discover Financial Services DEF 14A filed March 15, 2024, accession 0001393612-24-000020, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Discover Financial Services filed document, accession 0001393612-24-000020. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 15, 2024.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2023 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU4,871$547,500—
RSU1,774$199,398—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Discover Financial Services's FY2023 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

3 Form 4 lines since the FY2023 proxy (filed March 15, 2024)
current to 2026-11-07 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2025-05-18Disposition to the issuer—22,308$0.000
2025-05-15Grant or award—948$0.0022,308
2025-01-31Tax withholding—1,308$201.0921,360

The 3 most recent of 3 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 →

Discover Financial Services’s named executive officers, FY2023

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2023 total
Roger HochschildFormer CEO and President$10,891,514
Hope MehlmanExecutive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary$6,600,826
Carlos MinettiFormer EVP, President - Consumer Banking$5,556,878
John GreeneExecutive Vice President, CFO$4,085,328
Daniel CapozziExecutive Vice President, President- Consumer Banking$3,671,000
Amir ArooniFormer EVP, Chief Information Officer$3,586,635
Keith ToneyExecutive Vice President, President- Credit & Decision Management$3,572,645
John Owen · this pageInterim CEO and President$2,188,651

Board service

Discover Financial Services board · FY2023

How this board is paid

Company policy: Discover Financial Services pays directors a $105,000 cash retainer and $170,000 in RSUs. As stated in Discover Financial Services's FY2023 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 Discover Financial Services'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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