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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$6,583,084

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

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. Open the filing on EDGAR.

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.

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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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 Diversified Energy'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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