Outbrain Management

Management criteria checks 4/4

Outbrain's CEO is David Kostman, appointed in Apr 2024, has a tenure of 9.75 years. total yearly compensation is $1.34M, comprised of 32% salary and 68% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 1.01% of the company’s shares, worth $2.01M. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 2.2 years and 7.4 years respectively.

Key information

David Kostman

Chief executive officer

US$1.3m

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage32.0%
CEO tenureno data
CEO ownership1.0%
Management average tenure2.2yrs
Board average tenure7.4yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

Outbrain's (NASDAQ:OB) Profits May Not Reveal Underlying Issues

Mar 16
Outbrain's (NASDAQ:OB) Profits May Not Reveal Underlying Issues

Is Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB) Using Too Much Debt?

Mar 10
Is Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB) Using Too Much Debt?

Investors Don't See Light At End Of Outbrain Inc.'s (NASDAQ:OB) Tunnel

Dec 14
Investors Don't See Light At End Of Outbrain Inc.'s (NASDAQ:OB) Tunnel

Earnings Update: Here's Why Analysts Just Lifted Their Outbrain Inc. (NASDAQ:OB) Price Target To US$6.60

May 11
Earnings Update: Here's Why Analysts Just Lifted Their Outbrain Inc. (NASDAQ:OB) Price Target To US$6.60

Outbrain: Enhancement Of Algorithms And Stock Buyback Could Bring The Price Up

Oct 06

Outbrain Non-GAAP EPS of -$0.19 misses by $0.15, revenue of $250.9M beats by $4.47M

Aug 11

An Intrinsic Calculation For Outbrain Inc. (NASDAQ:OB) Suggests It's 32% Undervalued

Jul 22
An Intrinsic Calculation For Outbrain Inc. (NASDAQ:OB) Suggests It's 32% Undervalued

Outbrain Inc.: Don't Overthink It

May 04

Outbrain Inc. (NASDAQ:OB) Shares Could Be 32% Below Their Intrinsic Value Estimate

Jan 13
Outbrain Inc. (NASDAQ:OB) Shares Could Be 32% Below Their Intrinsic Value Estimate

CEO Compensation Analysis

How has David Kostman's remuneration changed compared to Outbrain's earnings?
DateTotal CompensationSalaryCompany Earnings
Dec 31 2023n/an/a

US$10m

Sep 30 2023n/an/a

-US$2m

Jun 30 2023n/an/a

-US$7m

Mar 31 2023n/an/a

-US$28m

Dec 31 2022US$1mUS$430k

-US$25m

Sep 30 2022n/an/a

US$22m

Jun 30 2022n/an/a

-US$27m

Mar 31 2022n/an/a

US$5m

Dec 31 2021US$2mUS$400k

US$11m

Sep 30 2021n/an/a

-US$17m

Jun 30 2021n/an/a

US$38m

Mar 31 2021n/an/a

US$15m

Dec 31 2020US$5mUS$400k

US$2m

Dec 31 2019US$2mUS$400k

-US$21m

Compensation vs Market: David's total compensation ($USD1.34M) is about average for companies of similar size in the US market ($USD1.60M).

Compensation vs Earnings: David's compensation has been consistent with company performance over the past year.


CEO

David Kostman (59 yo)

no data

Tenure

US$1,343,850

Compensation

Mr. David Kostman is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Outbrain Inc since November 15, 2017. He has been Independent Director at Unity Software Inc. since 2022. Mr. Kostman has been a Director of ironSource Lt...


Leadership Team

NamePositionTenureCompensationOwnership
Yaron Galai
Co-Founder & Chairman17.8yrsUS$1.02m7.49%
$ 14.9m
David Kostman
CEO & Directorno dataUS$1.34m1.01%
$ 2.0m
Jason Kiviat
Chief Financial Officer1.8yrsUS$968.07k0.33%
$ 645.7k
Ori Lahav
Co-Founder & GM of Israel18.3yrsno data1.79%
$ 3.6m
Asaf Porat
Chief Operating Officer4.7yrsno datano data
Wenkai Bradshaw
Chief Accounting Officer1.7yrsno data0.18%
$ 363.1k
Yonatan Maman
Chief Technology Officerless than a yearno datano data
Yossi Amara
Chief Information Officer6.3yrsno datano data
Veronica Gonzalez
Chief Administrative Officer & General Counsel4.7yrsno datano data
Sarah Gavin
Head of Global Marketing Programmes & Corporate Communicationsno datano datano data
Paul Knegten
Chief Marketing Officer2.2yrsno datano data
Craig Hughes
Senior VP of Corporate Development & Strategy and GM of Videoless than a yearno datano data

2.2yrs

Average Tenure

51yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: OB's management team is considered experienced (2.2 years average tenure).


Board Members

NamePositionTenureCompensationOwnership
Yaron Galai
Co-Founder & Chairman17.8yrsUS$1.02m7.49%
$ 14.9m
David Kostman
CEO & Director9.8yrsUS$1.34m1.01%
$ 2.0m
Yaffa Krindel
Independent Director2yrsUS$288.91k0.017%
$ 33.5k
Shlomo Dovrat
Independent Director15.3yrsno data0%
$ 0
Jonathan Cheifetz
Independent Director16.3yrsno data0.093%
$ 184.6k
Arne Wolter
Independent Director5yrsUS$46.50k0.015%
$ 29.5k
Nithya Das
Independent Director1.2yrsno datano data
Kathryn Jhaveri
Independent Director2.7yrsUS$49.75k0.015%
$ 29.5k

7.4yrs

Average Tenure

55yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: OB's board of directors are considered experienced (7.4 years average tenure).


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