Former Chief Executive Officer, retired December 31, 2025, and Director · SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC (SBSI)

Lee Gibson

A named executive officer of SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$3,263,059

FY2023: $2,134,717

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 25, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Lee Gibson 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.
ComponentFY2023FY2025
Salary$809,608$845,000
Bonus—$315,000
Stock awards$283,353$422,488
Option awards—$0
Non-equity incentive$245,092$382,732
Pension and deferred compensation$769,701$1,261,447
All other$26,963$36,392
Total$2,134,717$3,263,059

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.

$2.1M
$3.3M
FY23
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU6,858$208,415—
RSU5,037$153,074—
RSU4,618$140,341—
RSU3,958$120,284—
RSU1,905$57,893—
RSU1,398$42,485—

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

3 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed March 25, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-09-03Grant or award—97$0.0058,909
2026-06-01Grant or award—93$0.0058,812
2026-05-14Grant or award—1,246$0.0058,719

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 →

SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Lee Gibson · this pageFormer Chief Executive Officer, retired December 31, 2025, and Director$3,263,059
Keith DonahoePresident 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. ArnoldChief Credit Officer of the Company and the Bank and advisory director of the Bank$702,648

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How this record is built

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