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Viant Technology Executive Compensation (FY25)

Name: Viant Technology (DSP) executive compensation
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DSP · Irvine, CA · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2022 to 2025

Chief executive, fiscal 2025

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Tim Vanderhook

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Data as of October 22, 2026Latest filing (DEF 14A): April 23, 2026

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Frequently asked questions

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Who is Viant Technology's chief executive and what were they paid?

Total compensation for Tim Vanderhook, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, came to $1,506,636 in fiscal 2025. Vanderhook's total moved 63.9% lower from the $4,169,668 reported for fiscal 2024.

What was Viant Technology's say-on-pay result?

As an emerging growth company, the company is exempt from the advisory say-on-pay vote.

Executive compensation

Every element reported for each named executive officer, by fiscal year.

Fiscal 2022

Officer	Salary	Bonus	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
Chris Vanderhook Chief Operating Officer and Director	◇	—	◇	◇	—	—	—	◇
Tim Vanderhook Chief Executive Officer and Chairman	◇	—	◇	◇	—	—	—	◇
Larry Madden Chief Financial Officer	◇	◇	◇	◇	—	—	—	◇

Fiscal 2023

Officer	Salary	Bonus	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
Chris Vanderhook Chief Operating Officer and Director	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	—	◇
Tim Vanderhook Chief Executive Officer and Chairman	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	—	◇
Larry Madden Chief Financial Officer	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	—	◇

Fiscal 2024

Officer	Salary	Bonus	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
Tim Vanderhook Chief Executive Officer	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	—	◇
Chris Vanderhook Chief Operating Officer and Director	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	—	◇
Larry Madden Chief Financial Officer	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	—	◇

Fiscal 2025

Officer	Salary	Bonus	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
Larry Madden Chief Financial Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	—	—	◇
Chris Vanderhook Chief Operating Officer and Director	◇	—	—	—	◇	—	◇	◇
Tim Vanderhook Chief Executive Officer and Chairman	◇	—	—	—	◇	—	◇	◇

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero. A negative change in pension value is shown but, as the company reports it, not included in the total.

Equity awards granted

Individual awards as disclosed: type, date, unit counts at each level, and grant date value.

Fiscal 2025

Officer	Award	Grant date	Threshold units	Target units	Units granted	Maximum units	Exercise price	Grant date fair value
Larry Madden	OTHER	—	—	—	—	—	—	◇

Fiscal 2023, 2024 are included in the PDF.

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero. Threshold, target and maximum apply only to performance awards and are never shown for time-based or option awards.

Outstanding awards

Awards still held at fiscal year end.

As disclosed at fiscal 2025 year end

Officer	Award	Unvested units	Market value of unvested units	Exercise price	Expires
Larry Madden	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	Option	◇	—	◇	3/15/2032
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	Option	◇	—	◇	3/15/2034
Tim Vanderhook	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	Option	◇	—	◇	3/15/2032
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	Option	◇	—	◇	3/15/2034

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.

Severance and change in control

The terms as written in the agreements.

Larry Madden

Chief Financial Officer · Amended agreement

Benefits continuation

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Director compensation

What each non-employee director was paid.

Fiscal 2025

Director	Fees earned in cash	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
Brett Wilson	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Vivian W. Yang	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Max Valdes Lead independent director	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇

Chris Vanderhook and Tim Vanderhook served on the board in fiscal 2025 and received no compensation for board service. Executive directors are typically paid through their executive roles, shown above.

Earlier years are included in the PDF.

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.

Director fee schedule

The standing retainers and premiums the board pays, as published.

Board cash retainer	◇
Board equity retainer	◇
Audit committee chair	◇
Audit committee member	◇
Compensation committee chair	◇
Compensation committee member	◇
Nominating and governance chair	◇
Nominating and governance member	◇

Equity is delivered as restricted stock units.

Disclosed peer group

The companies this board named as its compensation comparison group. The list is disclosure; the comparison is analysis.

Say-on-pay history

Shareholder support for the compensation program, by year.

This company is an emerging growth company and is exempt from the advisory vote on executive compensation. There is no vote to report.

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- Tim Vanderhook (Chief Executive Officer and Chairman), FY2025 total compensation $1,506,636 (base salary $700,000) [exec_comp, SEC accession 0001193125-26-173662, filed 2026-04-23]

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Citations

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Documents cited

DEF 14A, filed April 23, 2026
0001193125-26-173662
Director Compensation Table · EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION · Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy · Outstanding Equity Awards as of December 31, 2025 · and 1 more section
DEF 14A, filed April 23, 2025
0001193125-25-091400
Summary Compensation Table
DEF 14A, filed March 18, 2024
0001140361-24-013953
Summary Compensation Table
DEF 14A, filed April 19, 2023
0001140361-23-019008
Summary Compensation Table
EX-10, filed May 3, 2022
0001564590-22-017525
Exhibit

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Velarion Company Intelligence. (2026). Velarion database: executive and board compensation data (Version 2026Q3) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854

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@misc{velarionData2026,
  author = {{Velarion Company Intelligence}},
  title = {Velarion database: executive and board compensation data},
  year = {2026},
  version = {2026Q3},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22283854},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854}
}

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