Dropbox's third highest
Quentin Clark
Dropbox disclosed in a public filing last week that  Quentin Clark   its SVP of engineering  product  and design  was paid a total compensation worth $34.6 million in 2017. That includes a prorated base salary of $130 000  a one-time signing bonus of $340 000  and company stock worth $34.1 million  which will vest over five years.
 Clark 's pay package last year is impressive given how Dropbox has hired a number of high-profile executives over the years  including COO Dennis Woodside.  Clark  is relatively little known outside of engineering circles and has maintained a low-profile despite a long engineering career that spans more than two decades.
Prior to joining Dropbox   Clark  held the chief technology officer and chief business officer roles at SAP.
But  Clark  spent the majority of  his  career at Microsoft.  He  spent nearly 20 years in various engineering roles  including as a vice president in charge of the company's database products. In  his  LinkedIn profile   Clark  describes  his  work at Microsoft as having managed "the SQL Server product and the broader data platform work " including Business Intelligence  Big Data products and the cloud data platform work in Azure.
 Clark  also worked on WinFS  a Microsoft project in the early 2000s that aimed to replace the file system in Windows with a more database-like file system. It never shipped  and some insiders blamed it for contributing to the delays that plagued Windows Vista. Bill Gates  then chief software architect  once said on Reddit that not shipping it was his biggest regret among unrealized products.
Dropbox disclosed in a public filing last week that  [TGT]   its SVP of engineering  product  and design  was paid a total compensation worth $34.6 million in 2017. That includes a prorated base salary of $130 000  a one-time signing bonus of $340 000  and company stock worth $34.1 million  which will vest over five years.
 [TGT] 's pay package last year is impressive given how Dropbox has hired a number of high-profile executives over the years  including COO Dennis Woodside.  Clark  is relatively little known outside of engineering circles and has maintained a low-profile despite a long engineering career that spans more than two decades.
Prior to joining Dropbox   Clark  held the chief technology officer and chief business officer roles at SAP.
But  Clark  spent the majority of  his  career at Microsoft.  He  spent nearly 20 years in various engineering roles  including as a vice president in charge of the company's database products. In  his  LinkedIn profile   Clark  describes  his  work at Microsoft as having managed "the SQL Server product and the broader data platform work " including Business Intelligence  Big Data products and the cloud data platform work in Azure.
 Clark  also worked on WinFS  a Microsoft project in the early 2000s that aimed to replace the file system in Windows with a more database-like file system. It never shipped  and some insiders blamed it for contributing to the delays that plagued Windows Vista. Bill Gates  then chief software architect  once said on Reddit that not shipping it was his biggest regret among unrealized products.