Executive Vice President (Group President, Memorialization) · MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP (MATW)

Steven Gackenbach

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Steven Gackenbach as a named executive officer of MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL; 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

$1,562,662

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed January 20, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Steven Gackenbach compensation by year

MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$543,065
Bonus$0
Stock awards$638,988
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$306,158
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$74,451
Total$1,562,662

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP DEF 14A filed January 20, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-015869, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU13,800$335,064—
PSU11,700$284,076—
RSU10,000$242,800—
PSU15,000$224,347—
RSU9,200$223,376—
RSU7,800$189,384—

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

MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Joseph BartolacciDirector, President and Chief Executive Officer$5,701,016
Steven NicolaChief Financial Officer and Treasurer$2,035,198
Steven Gackenbach · this pageExecutive Vice President (Group President, Memorialization)$1,562,662
Brian WaltersExecutive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary$1,357,887
Lee LaneExecutive Vice President (Group President, Industrial Technologies and Matthews Environmental Solutions)$1,124,372

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How this record is built

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