The vote, then the grants: IONQ granted five executives $106.2M in the 160 days after a 64% say-on-pay vote
A 64% vote on June 17, 2025. $106.2M in equity to five executives between June 18 and November 24.
IONQ shareholders cast a 64% say-on-pay vote on June 17, 2025: 39,900,600 shares for, 22,233,654 against. Over the following 160 days the quantum-computing company’s board granted five named executive officers $106,216,196 in equity across eleven awards. The first came the next day: $218,480 in restricted stock units to Inder M. Singh, then a director, who became chief financial officer and chief operating officer later that year. The largest came on September 4: $36,000,007 in performance stock units, also to Mr. Singh.
Every figure above is printed in the two filings named below, and the vote percentage is the company’s votes for divided by votes for and against. Timing is not proof of motive, and the disclosures cannot say whether an award was planned before the vote; they can say when the vote was and when each award was dated.
Vote result, annual meeting of June 17, 2025: 0000950170-25-088493 · Grants of plan-based awards, fiscal 2025: 0001193125-26-197487
Correction, September 5, 2026: an earlier version of this story said IONQ granted six executives $106M the day after the vote. The filings show five executives received $106,216,196 over the 160 days after the vote, $218,480 of it the next day. The earlier version also cited a cross-company pattern (2,089 companies, 16,212 grants, 104 companies granting after their vote); those figures could not be reproduced from the underlying disclosures and are withdrawn. The headline, figure label and text now match the filings.