Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance · ANSYS, Inc. (ANSS)

Rachel Pyles

A named executive officer of ANSYS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2024. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2024

$5,035,339

FY2023: $2,872,953

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 29, 2025 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Rachel Pyles compensation by year

ANSYS Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as ANSYS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024
Salary$234,168$389,863
Bonus$55,147$14,068
Stock awards$2,378,479$4,048,270
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$198,559$556,944
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$6,600$26,194
Total$2,872,953$5,035,339

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: ANSYS, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 29, 2025, accession 0001104659-25-041176, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$2.9M
$5.0M
FY23
FY24
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU3,972$1,339,875—
RSU849$286,393—
RSU364$122,788—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in ANSYS, Inc.'s FY2024 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

2 Form 4 lines since the FY2024 proxy (filed April 29, 2025)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2025-07-17Disposition to the issuer—8,559—0
2025-07-17Disposition to the issuer—16,844—8,559

The 2 most recent of 2 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 ANSYS discloses, by trigger · FY2024
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$700,000$0$16,001$1,016,001
Disability—$1,749,056—$1,749,056
Change in control and involuntary termination$900,000$1,749,056$16,001$2,965,057
Retirement———$0
Death—$1,749,056—$1,749,056
Voluntary resignation———$0

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in ANSYS, Inc.'s FY2024 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

ANSYS’s named executive officers, FY2024

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2024 total
Ajei GopalPresident and Chief Executive Officer$32,810,655
Shane EmswilerSenior Vice President, Products$8,206,812
Walt HearnSenior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Customer Excellence$7,019,212
Janet LeeSenior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary$5,906,660
Rachel Pyles · this pageChief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance$5,035,339
Nicole AnasenesFormer Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$1,983,755

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are ANSYS's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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