Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. (CSCO)

R. Scott Herren

A named executive officer of CISCO SYSTEMS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 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

$24,293,618

FY2024: $18,849,027

4th of 6 named executive officers at Cisco Systems by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for CISCO SYSTEMS, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed October 28, 2025 (DEF 14A).

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R. Scott Herren compensation by year

CISCO SYSTEMS Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as CISCO SYSTEMS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$838,461$869,231$891,238$896,875
Bonus$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$12,457,042$14,201,856$16,937,800$21,218,879
Option awards$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$1,091,792$2,411,505$929,757$2,031,960
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0
All other$220,984$66,417$90,232$145,904
Total$14,608,279$17,549,009$18,849,027$24,293,618

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. DEF 14A filed October 28, 2025, accession 0000858877-25-000150, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. filed document, accession 0000858877-25-000150. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed October 28, 2025.

$14.6M
$17.5M
$18.8M
$24.3M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU263,097$18,072,133—
RSU259,316$17,812,416—
RSU248,461$17,066,786—
RSU139,784$9,601,763—
RSU133,479$9,168,673—
RSU68,881$4,731,436—
RSU31,681$2,176,168—
RSU11,096$762,184—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments CISCO SYSTEMS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death—$32,689,889—$32,689,889
Change in control, no termination—$56,926,527—$56,926,527

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

CISCO SYSTEMS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Charles RobbinsChair and Chief Executive Officer$52,838,751
Gary SteeleFormer President, Go-to-Market$32,833,555
Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer$25,687,435
R. Scott Herren · this pageFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$24,293,618
Dev StahlkopfExecutive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer$15,826,734
Thimaya SubaiyaExecutive Vice President, Operations$14,738,615

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How this record is built

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