President and Chief Executive Officer · SMART Global Holdings, Inc. (SGH)

Mark Adams

A named executive officer of SMART Global 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$11,711,497

FY2024: $5,998,416

1st of 6 named executive officers at Smart Global by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for SMART Global, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed December 19, 2025 (DEF 14A).

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Mark Adams compensation by year

SMART Global Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as SMART Global reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$750,000$750,000$890,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$2,284,931$5,131,454$9,681,046
Option awards$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$150,000$93,750$1,099,777
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$29,411$23,212$40,674
Total$3,214,342$5,998,416$11,711,497

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: SMART Global Holdings, Inc. DEF 14A filed December 19, 2025, accession 0001616533-25-000073, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the SMART Global Holdings, Inc. filed document, accession 0001616533-25-000073. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed December 19, 2025.

$3.2M
$6.0M
$11.7M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU416,628$10,053,234—
RSU112,837$2,722,757—
PSU107,958$2,605,027—
PSU82,486$1,990,387—
RSU46,400$1,119,632—
RSU16,869$407,049—
RSU5,272$127,213—

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

SMART Global’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Mark Adams · this pagePresident and Chief Executive Officer$11,711,497
Tony FreySenior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer$3,333,006
Pete MancaFormer Senior Vice President and President, Advanced Computing$2,693,706
Anne KuykendallSenior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer$2,418,149
Nate OlmsteadSenior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,303,806
Joseph ClarkSenior Vice President and President, Optimized LED$1,825,108

Board service

SMART Global board · FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: SMART Global pays directors a $60,000 cash retainer and $175,000 in RSUs. As stated in SMART Global's FY2025 proxy.

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