President and Chief Executive Officer · Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. (ESPR)

Sheldon Koenig

A named executive officer of Esperion Therapeutics in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2025. 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

$3,535,512

FY2024: $3,175,240

1st of 3 named executive officers at Esperion Therapeutics by FY2025 total.

3 named officers on file for Esperion Therapeutics, FY2025

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The filing gives the total. Esperion Therapeutics’s full Executive Compensation Report gives every award, the disclosed peer set and what the total leaves out — the pair adds the board’s.

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 16, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-06.

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Sheldon Koenig compensation by year

Esperion Therapeutics Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Esperion Therapeutics reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$683,333$720,833$745,833$770,833
Bonus$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$549,840$422,100$930,700$1,260,000
Option awards$2,052,139$1,267,661$982,162$847,929
Non-equity incentive$500,500$541,938$487,500$639,375
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0
All other$13,600$16,033$29,045$17,375
Total$3,799,412$2,968,565$3,175,240$3,535,512

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 16, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-025499, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. filed document, accession 0001628280-26-025499. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 16, 2026.

$3.8M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$3.5M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU682,500$2,525,250—
RSU255,375$944,888—
RSU32,818$121,427—
RSU7,250$26,825—
Option139,068—$4.02
Option30,750—$4.74
Option611,814—$1.50
Option361,125—$2.05

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

5 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 16, 2026)
current to 2026-11-06 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-07-13Disposition to the issuer derivative—753,000—0
2026-07-13Disposition to the issuer derivative—647,460—0
2026-07-13Disposition to the issuer—2,121,094—0
2026-07-13Disposition to the issuer derivative—642,000—0
2026-06-17Sale—53,588$3.152,119,111

The 5 most recent of 5 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 →

Esperion Therapeutics’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Sheldon Koenig · this pagePresident and Chief Executive Officer$3,535,512
John HarlowChief Commercial Officer$2,813,103
Benjamin HalladayChief Financial Officer$1,351,935

Board service

Esperion Therapeutics board · FY2023–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Esperion Therapeutics pays directors a $50,000 cash retainer. As stated in Esperion Therapeutics's FY2025 proxy.

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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 Esperion Therapeutics'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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