Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer · Cousins Properties Inc. (CUZ)

Kennedy Hicks

A named executive officer of Cousins Properties in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 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

$2,417,274

FY2024: $2,178,536

3rd of 5 named executive officers at Cousins Properties by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 18, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Kennedy Hicks compensation by year

Cousins Properties Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Cousins Properties reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$414,200$427,000$437,675$450,805
Bonus$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$675,669$898,127$1,129,035$1,298,692
Option awards$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$405,688$526,534$591,671$647,356
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0
All other$18,910$20,296$20,155$20,421
Total$1,514,467$1,871,957$2,178,536$2,417,274

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Cousins Properties Inc. DEF 14A filed March 18, 2026, accession 0000025232-26-000031, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Cousins Properties Inc. filed document, accession 0000025232-26-000031. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 18, 2026.

$1.5M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$2.4M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU58,370$1,504,779—
PSU44,643$1,150,897—

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

Cousins Properties’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
M. Colin ConnollyPresident and Chief Executive Officer$8,688,925
Gregg D. AdzemaExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$3,349,856
Kennedy Hicks · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer$2,417,274
Richard G. Hickson IVExecutive Vice President - Operations$2,082,872
John S. McCollExecutive Vice President - Development$2,068,246

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