Cerence: Pay

Cerence paid its 6 named executives $29.0M in total in FY2025 (Sep). CEO Brian Krzanich was paid $8.5M of that.

Pay$100 in the stock at the end of FY24 → $396
CEO pay is from each proxy. The stock line is the value of $100 put in the stock at the start, from the price change of each fiscal year. Dividends are not in it.

Pay of each named executive

Brian KrzanichPresident and Chief Executive Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
1 year
Antonio RodriquezEVP, Chief Financial Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
FY2024 (Sep)
2 years
Nils SchanzEVP, Product and Technology
FY2025 (Sep)
FY2024 (Sep)
2 years
Christian MentzEVP, Chief Revenue Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
1 year
Jennifer SalinasEVP, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel
FY2025 (Sep)
FY2024 (Sep)
2 years
Dr. Stefan OrtmannsFormer President and Chief Executive Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
FY2024 (Sep)
FY2023 (Sep)
FY2022 (Sep)
FY2021 (Sep)
5 years

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2024 (Sep), the median CEO pay of the 2 peers with pay on file was $9.2M. The CEO of Cerence was paid $861.7K, 91% below the median.

  1. 1SPS Commerce
  2. 2Upland Software
  3. 3Cerence
  4. 4Altair EngineeringNot disclosed
  5. 5Aspen TechnologyNot disclosed
  6. 6BlackberryNot disclosed
  7. 7BlacklineNot disclosed
  8. 8GentexNot disclosed
  9. 9GuidewireNot disclosed
  10. 10LivePersonNot disclosed
  11. 11PROS HoldingsNot disclosed
  12. 12Rapid 7Not disclosed
  13. 13Varonis SystemsNot disclosed
  14. 14VisteonNot disclosed
  15. 15YextNot disclosed

Pay of each named executive comes from the Summary Compensation Table of each proxy statement. Realized pay adds the value of options used and stock that vested. CEO pay of each peer comes from its own Pay versus Performance table.