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Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer · Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. (BWFG)

Ryan Hildebrand

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Ryan Hildebrand as a named executive officer of Bankwell Financial; 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

$655,651

3rd of 3 named executive officers at Bankwell Financial by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 7, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Ryan Hildebrand compensation by year

Bankwell Financial Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Bankwell Financial reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$375,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$120,088
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$150,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$10,563
Total$655,651

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 7, 2026, accession 0001505732-26-000064, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. filed document, accession 0001505732-26-000064. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 7, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU15,000$687,300—
PSU3,334$152,764—
RSU3,334$152,764—

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

Bankwell Financial’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Christopher GrusekeChief Executive Officer$1,336,526
Matthew McNeillPresident and Chief Banking Officer$930,973
Ryan Hildebrand · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer$655,651

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