Former EVP, Head of Research & Development · NOVAVAX INC (NVAX)

Ruxandra Draghia-Akli

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Ruxandra Draghia-Akli as a named executive officer of NOVAVAX; 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

$2,303,380

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 27, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Ruxandra Draghia-Akli compensation by year

NOVAVAX Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as NOVAVAX reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$600,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$629,600
Option awards$668,040
Non-equity incentive$290,250
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$115,490
Total$2,303,380

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: NOVAVAX INC DEF 14A filed April 27, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-027328, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU80,000$537,600—
RSU28,513$191,607—
Option120,000—$7.87

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

NOVAVAX’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
John JacobsPresident and CEO$8,856,015
Elaine O'HaraEVP, Chief Strategy Officer$3,688,276
James KellyEVP, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer$2,986,228
Mark CaseyEVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary$2,810,453
Ruxandra Draghia-Akli · this pageFormer EVP, Head of Research & Development$2,303,380
John TrizzinoFormer President and Chief Operating Officer$1,709,950

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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 NOVAVAX'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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