Corporate EVP and Banking Group President · Ameris Bancorp (ABCB)

Lawton Bassett III

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Lawton Bassett III as a named executive officer of Ameris Bancorp; 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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,741,551

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 7, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Lawton Bassett III compensation by year

Ameris Bancorp Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Ameris Bancorp reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$520,833
Bonus$52,382
Stock awards$510,966
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$576,201
Pension and deferred compensation$38,931
All other$42,238
Total$1,741,551

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Ameris Bancorp DEF 14A filed April 7, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-013509, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU2,465$183,076—
RSU1,380$102,493—

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

Ameris Bancorp’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
H. Palmer Proctor Jr.Chief Executive Officer$6,077,507
Nicole StokesCorporate EVP and Chief Financial Officer$2,033,156
James LaHaiseCorporate EVP and Chief Strategy Officer$1,880,001
Lawton Bassett III · this pageCorporate EVP and Banking Group President$1,741,551
Ross CreasyCorporate EVP and Chief Information Officer$1,570,820

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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 Ameris Bancorp'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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