Company: VSAT
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-165436
Chunk: 60

Company: VIASAT INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 60
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 operational targets, and individual performance. Also, as described below, executive officers receive performance-based equity awards as a significant component of their long-term incentives. As illustrated below, a significant portion of the total direct compensation for our Named Executive Officers is delivered as variable performance-based compensation, including performance stock units, the value of which is driven by stock price performance. Variable incentive-based compensation accounted for approximately 82.4% of total direct compensation for our Chief Executive Officer and an average of approximately 78.4% of total direct compensation for our other Named Executive Officers who served for the entirety of fiscal year 2025.

Alignment with Stockholder Interests. We believe that executive compensation and stockholder interests should be linked, and our compensation program is designed so that the financial interests of our executive officers are closely aligned with the interests of our stockholders. We accomplish this objective in multiple ways. First, a significant portion of our Named Executive Officer compensation is linked to achievement of rigorous financial, operational and stock price performance metrics. Second, we have adopted stock ownership guidelines that require our executive officers to own a significant amount of Viasat stock. Third, we grant performance-based equity awards as a significant part of our long-term equity award program. Fourth, we’ve adopted a CEO stock holding requirement for which our CEO must hold vested or exercised stock awards for 12 months following a vesting or settlement date. As further described under Components of our Compensation Programs, we issue performance-based equity awards to our executive officers, which are designed to align their interests with our investors and provide rewards based on financial and stock price performance. We have also adopted a clawback policy to allow the Committee to recover incentive compensation (including time-based and performance-based equity awards) from an executive officer in the event of a financial restatement resulting from such executive officer’s misconduct, as further described below. We also maintain a compensation recovery policy as required by Rule 10D-1under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the corresponding rules adopted by NASDAQ, which provides for the mandatory recovery of certain erroneously awarded incentive compensation from our officers in the event of an accounting restatement to correct the Company’s material noncompliance with any financial reporting requirement under securities laws.

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION •Compensation Discussion and Analysis Structure Allows Competitive and Fair Compensation Packages. We believe our success depends to a significant degree on our ability to attract and retain highly skilled personnel. Stockholders are accordingly