Company: STGW
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-039437
Chunk: 39

Company: Stagwell Inc
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 | Chief Operating Officer            | ​ |
| ​ | Vincenzo DiMaggio | ​ | ​ | Chief Accounting Officer           | ​ |

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Business Combination On August 2, 2021, we completed the Business Combination of MDC and the operating businesses and subsidiaries of Stagwell Media. At the same time, we added former Stagwell Media executives to our management team, including Jay Leveton, our President, and Ryan Greene, our Chief Operating Officer. As described more fully below, following the Business Combination, the Human Resources and Compensation Committee reviewed the compensation of our NEOs in light of the change in size and competitive position of the Company. Aligning Pay with Performance The Human Resources and Compensation Committee remains committed to its compensation strategy of appropriately linking compensation levels with stockholder value creation by: • Aligning pay with financial performance as a meaningful component of total compensation; • Providing total compensation capable of attracting, motivating and retaining executives of outstanding talent; • Focusing our executives on achieving key objectives critical to implementing the Company’s business strategy and achieving financial performance goals; and • Safeguarding the Company’s business interests, including protection from adverse activities by executives. Stockholder Approval of our NEO Compensation Our Board, our Human Resources and Compensation Committee, and our management value the opinions of our stockholders. At our 2024 Annual Meeting, the Company submitted its executive compensation program to an advisory vote of its stockholders (also known as the “say-on-pay” vote). This advisory vote received support from over 99% of the total votes cast at the annual meeting. Our Board and Human Resources and Compensation Committee reviewed the vote results and we did not make any changes to our executive compensation program because of the results.

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OVERVIEW OF OUR 2024 COMPENSATION PROCESS Primary Compensation Elements The Company traditionally uses a mix of short- and long-term and fixed and variable elements in compensating the NEOs: base salary, annual cash bonus or stock incentives and long-term incentive awards. The Human Resources and Compensation Committee administers the long-term incentive program for our NEOs with the goal that all long-term equity awards granted to NEOs will either be subject to performance-based vesting requirements or will have value only to the extent that our stock price increases following the grant date, in addition to continued employment conditions. In limited situations, such as inducement grants, awards may include equity-based components that vest based solely on continued employment.

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