Chief Financial Officer · COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC. (CCOI)

Thaddeus Weed

A named executive officer of COGENT COMMUNICATIONS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 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

$4,828,550

FY2024: $4,460,450

2nd of 6 named executive officers at Cogent Communications by FY2025 total.

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

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Thaddeus Weed compensation by year

COGENT COMMUNICATIONS Summary Compensation Table · all 8 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as COGENT COMMUNICATIONS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$275,000$303,919$309,997$316,197$335,551$348,973$361,187$370,217
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$15,000$0
Stock awards$945,265$1,050,631$1,090,038$1,338,600$1,508,940$1,977,595$4,093,163$4,452,233
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0—$0
Non-equity incentive$0$0———$0——
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0—$0
All other$5,300$5,400$5,500$5,600$3,608$6,100$6,100$6,100
Total$1,225,565$1,359,950$1,405,535$1,660,397$1,848,099$2,332,668$4,460,450$4,828,550

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC. DEF 14A filed March 20, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-032744, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC. filed document, accession 0001104659-26-032744. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 20, 2026.

$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.3M
$4.5M
$4.8M
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU119,400$2,574,264—
RSU49,400$1,065,064—
RSU19,400$418,264—
PSU4,850$104,566—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments COGENT COMMUNICATIONS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death$0$4,198,810—$4,198,810
Disability$0$4,198,810—$4,198,810
Retirement$0$4,198,810—$4,198,810
Involuntary termination without cause$370,217$637,742—$1,007,959
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$370,217$637,742—$1,007,959
Change in control, no termination$0$4,198,810—$4,198,810
Change in control and involuntary termination$370,217$4,198,810—$4,569,027

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

COGENT COMMUNICATIONS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Dave SchaefferChief Executive Officer$25,372,519
Thaddeus Weed · this pageChief Financial Officer$4,828,550
John ChangChief Legal Officer$3,592,609
Mark HarrisChief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Global Sales$2,787,068
Henry KilmerVice President of Network Strategy$1,400,473
James BubeckFormer Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Global Sales$1,270,758

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