CEO Information

Compensation for the embattled chief of Knoxville’s top tourism organization exceeds that earned by leaders of other local tax-exempt groups, according to documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Gloria Ray, president and CEO of the Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corp., has come under intense scrutiny because of an annual pay package that exceeds $400,000. [...]

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), the fifth- biggest U.S. bank by assets, gave Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein a $7 million restricted-stock bonus for 2011, a decrease from $12.6 million a year earlier. Blankfein, 57, received 61,702 shares on Feb. 1, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The [...]

(Bloomberg) – International Business Machines Corp. almost doubled the salary of Virginia “Ginni” Rometty after promoting her as the CEO of the world’s largest computer-services provider at the start of the year. Ms. Rometty, 54, will receive a salary of $1.5 million this year, up from $800,000 last year, the Armonk, N.Y.-based company said Friday [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician’s ability to lift the stumbling technology company’s stock price during the next two years. Last year’s pay consists almost entirely of 1.9 million stock options valued at $16.1 million, according to [...]

With Facebook’s IPO filing this week, lots of little tidbits of information about the company came to light. Josh Wolford has reported on the fact that, as of 2013, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s salary will be set at $1 per year. Zuckerberg is certainly not the only exec to do this. In the wake of [...]