Pi­o­neer­ing mR­NA CEO Stéphane Ban­cel bags an eye-pop­ping $58M com­pen­sa­tion deal in wake of record IPO

We have a win­ner for the 2018 com­pen­sa­tion sweep­stakes.

An SEC fil­ing last week re­vealed that Stéphane Ban­cel, who made his­to­ry bring­ing his biotech uni­corn Mod­er­na to Nas­daq in a his­toric $604 mil­lion IPO and a mar­ket val­u­a­tion of $7.5 bil­lion, grabbed a $58 mil­lion com­pen­sa­tion pack­age for 2018 — with a chunk of stock op­tions pro­vid­ing the bulk of the up­side.

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