Kodiak AI raises CEO base salary to $525,000 and approves executive RSU grants
Following a review by its independent compensation consultant and Compensation Committee, Kodiak AI raised base salaries for CEO Don Burnette, CFO Surajit Datta and COO Michael Wiesinger, effective July 1, 2026, and approved time-based RSU grants for the three executives. The company also cancelled Datta's 2025 stock option by mutual agreement and replaced it with a smaller RSU grant; the filing does not quantify the resulting effect on share count or expense.
Key points
- Burnette's base salary rose from $425,000 to $525,000, and his annual bonus opportunity rose to up to 100% of base salary from 80%.
- Datta's and Wiesinger's base salaries each rose from $400,000 to $450,000, effective July 1, 2026.
- Intended grant-date values of RSUs are $7,000,000 for Burnette and $2,500,000 each for Datta and Wiesinger, vesting quarterly over four years with a six-month cliff.
- Datta's option for 2,035,915 shares at $8.88, granted August 27, 2025, was cancelled and replaced with 563,063 RSUs.
The filing
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