Compensation: $5,119,575
Notes: Addante topped our ad tech rich list last year, with compensation of just over $11 million, thanks to a huge $9.9 million stock award. At the time, the compensation committee considered that he had not received any equity awards since founding the company in 2007 and his total compensation package was below that of other CEOs at rival companies.
This year, he received $3.1 million in stock awards and $675,000 in option awards.
Rubicon Project reported a 81% lift in non-GAAP net revenue to $227.3 million in 2015. The company also reversed an $18.6 million net loss the prior year to $422 in net income for the full-year 2015.