Chief Operating Officer · Diversified Energy Co (DEC)

Richard Gideon

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Richard Gideon as a named executive officer of Diversified Energy; the record below is that year, complete. 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

$6,583,084

1st of 5 named executive officers at Diversified Energy by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for Diversified Energy, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 24, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Richard Gideon compensation by year

Diversified Energy Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Diversified Energy reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$365,385
Bonus$0
Stock awards$3,954,111
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$449,409
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$1,814,179
Total$6,583,084

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Diversified Energy Co DEF 14A filed March 24, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-010918, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the Diversified Energy Co filed document, accession 0001140361-26-010918. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 24, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU250,000$3,620,000—
PSU67,808$981,860—
PSU29,061$420,803—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Diversified Energy discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$1,404,688$4,742,128$40,157$6,186,973
Death—$4,087,554—$4,087,554
Change in control and involuntary termination$2,100,008$5,022,663$40,157$7,502,672
Change in control, no termination—$467,554—$467,554
Disability—$4,087,554—$4,087,554

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

Diversified Energy’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Richard Gideon · this pageChief Operating Officer$6,583,084
Robert HutsonChief Executive Officer$4,996,277
Bradley GrayPresident & Chief Financial Officer$2,724,894
Benjamin SullivanSenior EVP, Chief Legal and Risk Officer & Corporate Secretary$2,341,110
Ronald RidgwayEVP of Energy Marketing$1,294,735

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