Senior Vice President, Customer Success Team · CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC (CDNS)

Paul Scannell

A named executive officer of CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 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

$15,699,536

FY2024: $5,172,527

3rd of 5 named executive officers at Cadence Design Systems by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 25, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Paul Scannell compensation by year

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$429,948$525,000
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$2,693,905$14,491,009
Option awards$1,384,209$0
Non-equity incentive$476,473$672,916
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$10,457$10,611
Total$5,172,527$15,699,536

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC DEF 14A filed March 25, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-124264, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC filed document, accession 0001193125-26-124264. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 25, 2026.

$5.2M
$15.7M
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU80,200$25,068,916—
PSU15,075$4,712,144—
RSU14,295$4,468,331—
PSU7,364$2,301,839—
RSU4,722$1,476,003—
PSU3,682$1,150,920—
RSU922$288,199—
RSU382$119,406—
Option8,557—$285.19

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

12 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed March 25, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-09-17Tax withholding—937$280.7630,783
2026-08-26Sale10b5-1280$339.0031,720
2026-08-17Tax withholding—181$323.4732,000
2026-06-01Sale10b5-17,081$393.9132,181
2026-06-01Exercise or conversion10b5-17,081$285.1939,262
2026-06-01Exercise or conversion derivative10b5-17,081$0.007,082
2026-05-18Sale10b5-11,071$345.0632,181
2026-05-18Sale10b5-11,071$345.0632,181

The 8 most recent of 12 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 →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,599,000$13,380,624$34$14,979,658
Involuntary termination without cause$1,074,000$9,979,547$34$11,053,580
Disability—$12,292,895$34$12,292,928
Death—$12,292,895$0$12,292,894

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Anirudh DevganPresident and Chief Executive Officer$56,683,576
John WallSenior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$17,119,862
Paul Scannell · this pageSenior Vice President, Customer Success Team$15,699,536
Paul CunninghamSenior Vice President, GM, System Verification Group$15,207,257
Chin-Chi TengSenior Vice President, GM, Digital & Signoff Group$15,185,652

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