Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · STEPAN CO (SCL)

Ruben Velasquez

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Ruben Velasquez as a named executive officer of STEPAN; 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

$715,642

5th of 6 named executive officers at Stepan by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 25, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Ruben Velasquez compensation by year

STEPAN Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as STEPAN reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$220,543
Bonus$0
Stock awards$290,639
Option awards$99,995
Non-equity incentive$41,022
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$63,443
Total$715,642

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: STEPAN CO DEF 14A filed March 25, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-122725, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the STEPAN CO filed document, accession 0001193125-26-122725. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 25, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU4,074$192,945—
PSU1,071$50,723—
Option5,714—$49.09

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments STEPAN discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$831,250$0$0$831,250
Retirement$0$53,611$0$53,612
Death$0$289,417$0$289,417
Disability$0$289,417$0$289,417
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,662,500$289,417$0$1,951,917

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

STEPAN’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Luis RojoPresident and Chief Executive Officer$4,327,042
Robert Haire Jr.Executive Vice President, Supply Chain$1,357,164
Sean MoriartyVice President and General Manager – Surfactants$1,221,417
Richard StepanVice President and General Manager – Polymers$963,341
Ruben Velasquez · this pageVice President and Chief Financial Officer$715,642
Samuel HinrichsenFormer Interim Chief Financial Officer$412,590

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How this record is built

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