Company: ACIW
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-086263
Chunk: 47

Company: ACI WORLDWIDE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 47
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 Deliberations” below. For 2024, we continued to evolve the design of our PSU awards, which previously were based on Revenue Net of Interchange Growth and Net Adjusted EBITDA Margin performance, to focus on Gross Revenue Growth. We consider Gross Revenue Growth to be an important measure of our financial success that is largely within management’s direct control. We continued to incorporate total shareholder return as a multiplier of +/- 20%, which provides upside/downside potential in the event of outperformance/underperformance relative to the S&P SmallCap 600 Index over a three-year performance period. In addition, consideration of rTSR performance provides a direct link between compensation and stockholder return, thereby motivating our executive officers to focus on and strive to achieve both our annual and long-term business objectives. The Compensation Committee selected the S&P SmallCap 600 Index as a reference point because it tracks the investment results of similarly sized U.S. public companies and ACI was a constituent at the time of the grant. In addition, we incorporated an adjusted EBITDA gate, which must be met or exceeded for the PSUs to pay out. The target grant date fair values of the 2024 regular annual equity awards for certain of our participating Named Executive Officers increased as reflected in the table below to provide for competitive awards, to reflect the performance of the Named Executive Officers and the Company during the prior year, and to emphasize long-term performance-based compensation for our top executives. With respect to Messrs. Warsop and Kuruvilla, their awards reflected their first full annual award. Mr. Warsop’s 2023 award was pro-ratedfor the time he spent as our full time CEO and Mr. Kuruvilla’s 2023 award was a new hire award that was not based on our annual grant program. The target values of annual equity awards granted to our Named Executive Officers in 2024 were as follows:

| Named Executive Officer |     | Target   
 Value of 
 PSUs     |     |            |     | Target Value of  
 Restricted Share 
 Unit Awards      |     |            |     | Aggregate 
 Target    
 Value     |     |            |     | Percentage 
 Increase   
 over 2023  |     |        |
| Thomas W. Warsop III    |     |          |     | $5,525,000 |     |                  |     | $2,975,000 |     |           |     | $8,500,000 |     |            |     | N/A(1)