President and Current Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2026, and Director · SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC (SBSI)

Keith Donahoe

A named executive officer of SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,224,314

FY2024: $707,552

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Southside Bancshares by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 25, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-07.

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Keith Donahoe compensation by year

SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$461,625$580,000
Bonus$45,597$2,125
Stock awards$0$252,032
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$138,334$220,121
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$61,996$170,036
Total$707,552$1,224,314

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC DEF 14A filed March 25, 2026, accession 0000705432-26-000069, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC filed document, accession 0000705432-26-000069. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 25, 2026.

$708K
$1.2M
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU4,091$124,325—
RSU656$19,936—
RSU337$10,241—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

2 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed March 25, 2026)
current to 2026-11-07 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-09-03Grant or award—158$0.0020,693
2026-06-01Grant or award—152$0.0020,535

The 2 most recent of 2 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 SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES discloses, by trigger · FY2024
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$0$101,314—$101,314
Disability$0$101,314—$101,314
Death$0$101,314—$101,314

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC's FY2024 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Lee GibsonFormer Chief Executive Officer, retired December 31, 2025, and Director$3,263,059
Keith Donahoe · this pagePresident and Current Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2026, and Director$1,224,314
Julie ShamburgerChief Financial Officer of the Company and the Bank and advisory director of the Bank$1,128,056
Curtis BurchardChief Lending Officer of the Company and the Bank and advisory director of the Bank$807,780
T. L. Arnold, Jr.Chief Credit Officer of the Company and the Bank and advisory director of the Bank$702,648

Board service

SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES board · FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES pays directors a $101,000 cash retainer. As stated in SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES's FY2025 proxy.

Committees

Innovation, Digital Banking and Information Technology · ALCO

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How this record is built

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