Former Chief Executive Officer of FFI and FFB and Former President and Chairman of FFB · First Foundation Inc. (FFWM)

Scott Kavanaugh

A named executive officer of First Foundation in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2024. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2024

$1,259,812

FY2023: $1,329,000

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 17, 2025 (DEF 14A).

Scott Kavanaugh compensation by year

First Foundation Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as First Foundation reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024
Salary$950,000$829,062
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$342,000$425,000
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$37,000$5,750
Total$1,329,000$1,259,812

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: First Foundation Inc. DEF 14A filed April 17, 2025, accession 0001104659-25-036041, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$1.3M
$1.3M
FY23
FY24
SalaryStock awardsAll other

First Foundation’s named executive officers, FY2024

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2024 total
Thomas ShaferChief Executive Officer of FFI and FFB$4,013,755
Scott Kavanaugh · this pageFormer Chief Executive Officer of FFI and FFB and Former President and Chairman of FFB$1,259,812
John HakopianPresident of FFA$1,079,000
Ulrich KellerFormer Executive Chairman of FFI and FFA$885,449
Christopher NaghibiExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of FFB$744,750
James BrittonExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FFI and FFB$650,000
Simone LagomarsinoPresident of FFI and FFB$483,843

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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 First Foundation'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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