First Data paid Chief Executive Frank Bisignano $51.6 million in 2015, almost twice what his former boss, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, received last year.
Bisignano's compensation included more than $44 million in stock and option awards, a $1.5 million salary and a $5 million cash bonus that the company identified as a retention award connected to its October 2015 initial public offering, First Data said in its proxy statement on Thursday.
Dimon was paid $27 million in 2015, mostly in equity awards tied to JPMorgan's performance. Bisignano, 56, left the bank in 2013 after serving as a co-chief operating officer to run KKR-backed First Data. The company paid him $76.4 million in his first year, most of that from an award of 8.3 million stock options that it valued at $51 million at the time. Those options have a strike price of $11.07 and would have been worth $11.6 million if exercised at Wednesday's close.
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Daniel Charron, executive vice president global business solutions, was paid $24.8 million, and Guy Chiarello, First Data's president, was paid $20.6 million, according to the summary compensation table in the filing.
