Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer · Ribbon Communications Inc. (RBBN)

John Townsend

A named executive officer of Ribbon Communications in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$641,724

FY2024: $2,680,603

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 17, 2026 (DEF 14A).

John Townsend compensation by year

Ribbon Communications Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Ribbon Communications reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$105,479$500,000
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$2,571,058$0
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$81,164$112,594
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$4,066$29,130
Total$2,680,603$641,724

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Ribbon Communications Inc. DEF 14A filed April 17, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-044643, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$2.7M
$642K
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU314,583$905,999—
RSU102,564$295,384—
PSU92,308$265,847—
PSU92,307$265,844—
RSU16,615$47,851—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Ribbon Communications discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death—$221,538—$221,538
Change in control and involuntary termination$987,500—$21,000$1,883,428
Involuntary termination without cause$362,500$210,314$21,000$593,814
Disability—$221,538—$221,538
Change in control, no termination—$874,928—$874,928

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

Ribbon Communications’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Bruce McClellandPresident and Chief Executive Officer$17,457,675
Sam BucciExecutive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer$3,264,803
Steve McCafferyExecutive Vice President, Global Sales$2,472,097
Patrick MackenExecutive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary$2,457,556
Dan RedingtonFormer Executive Vice President, Global Sales$1,982,248
John Townsend · this pageExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$641,724

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