Chief Product and Technology Officer · Circle Internet Group, Inc. (CRCL)

Nikhil Chandhok

A named executive officer of Circle Internet 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

$7,878,397

FY2024: $4,966,871

4th of 5 named executive officers at Circle Internet by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 1, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Nikhil Chandhok compensation by year

Circle Internet Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Circle Internet reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$475,000$500,000$500,000
Bonus$0$0$500,000
Stock awards$749,975$3,999,996$5,999,983
Option awards$752,233$0$0
Non-equity incentive$332,025$466,875$770,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$0$0$108,414
Total$2,309,233$4,966,871$7,878,397

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Circle Internet Group, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 1, 2026, accession 0001876042-26-000112, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Circle Internet Group, Inc. filed document, accession 0001876042-26-000112. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 1, 2026.

$2.3M
$5.0M
$7.9M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU192,554$15,269,532—
RSU74,913$5,940,601—
RSU41,844$3,318,229—
RSU6,164$488,805—
Option52,903—$25.81
Option12,729—$32.95

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

Circle Internet’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Kash RazzaghiChief Commercial Officer$20,796,220
Jeremy AllaireChairman and Chief Executive Officer$16,260,836
Heath TarbertPresident$9,361,366
Nikhil Chandhok · this pageChief Product and Technology Officer$7,878,397
Jeremy Fox-GeenChief Financial Officer$7,769,983

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