Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary · AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC (AEP)

Robert Berntsen

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Robert Berntsen as a named executive officer of AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER; 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

$5,465,229

4th of 6 named executive officers at American Electric Power by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 18, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Robert Berntsen compensation by year

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$378,462
Bonus$1,187,000
Stock awards$3,305,432
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$492,200
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$102,135
Total$5,465,229

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC DEF 14A filed March 18, 2026, accession 0000004904-26-000022, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC filed document, accession 0000004904-26-000022. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 18, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU23,030$2,655,589—
RSU14,119$1,628,062—
RSU3,838$442,560—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC's FY2025 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 FY2025 proxy (filed March 18, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-10-19Grant or award—20,044$124.7240,450
2026-10-01Tax withholding—1,425$119.7520,405

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 →

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
William FehrmanChair, President and Chief Executive Officer$36,601,524
Trevor MihalikExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$13,481,299
Douglas CannonPresident - AEP Transmission$6,692,775
Robert Berntsen · this pageExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary$5,465,229
Alicia KnappPresident - Nuclear Development$4,368,980
Charles ZebulaFormer Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Senior Advisor$556,996

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