2018 Guide to Effective Proxies

2.18 Summary compensation table | 499 6 TH EDITION | GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE PROXIES 2.18 Summary compensation table The summary compensation table is a required section of the proxy. Some companies are making an effort to make this dense tabular disclosure more readable and inviting to the eye through the use of color, shading and other visual elements, as well as more compatible to other tables. ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. AMEREN CORPORATION EXECUTIVECOMPENSATION C OMPENSATION T ABLES AND N ARRATIVE D ISCLOSURES The following table sets forth compensation information for our NEOs for services rendered in all capacities to the Company and its subsidiaries in fiscal years 2017, 2016 and 2015. You should refer to the section entitled “COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS” above for an explanation of the elements used in setting the compensation for our NEOs. 2017 S UMMARY C OMPENSATION T ABLE NameandPrincipal Position (1) (a) Year (b) Salary (2) ($) (c) Bonus (2) ($) (d) Stock Awards (3) ($) (e) Option Awards (4) ($) (f) Non-Equity IncentivePlan Compensation (2)(5) ($) (g) Changein Pension Valueand Nonqualified Def.Comp. Earnings (6) ($) (h) AllOther Compensation (2)(7) ($) (i) Total ($) (j) WarnerL.Baxter Chairman,Presidentand ChiefExecutiveOfficer, Ameren 2017 1,075,000 – 4,474,803 – 1,775,000 629,030 126,957 8,080,790 2016 1,040,000 – 3,732,030 – 1,213,000 538,752 114,874 6,638,656 2015 1,000,000 – 4,152,719 – 1,065,500 170,664 104,823 6,493,706 MartinJ.Lyons,Jr. ExecutiveVicePresident andChiefFinancial Officer,Ameren 2017 662,000 – 1,492,607 – 840,962 353,722 60,416 3,409,707 2016 640,000 – 1,279,549 – 539,500 292,887 68,069 2,820,005 2015 612,000 – 1,343,364 – 477,710 51,918 50,881 2,535,873 RichardJ.Mark ChairmanandPresident, AmerenIllinois 2017 507,000 – 996,609 – 558,185 222,643 53,956 2,338,393 2016 490,000 – 854,048 – 409,000 199,821 48,943 2,001,812 2015 470,000 – 920,112 – 348,230 83,777 44,981 1,867,100 MichaelL.Moehn ChairmanandPresident, AmerenMissouri 2017 530,000 – 1,103,097 – 610,030 268,679 44,134 2,555,940 2016 512,000 – 944,912 – 367,000 225,211 54,152 2,103,275 2015 500,000 – 978,862 – 354,350 52,991 52,281 1,938,484 GregoryL.Nelson SeniorVicePresident, GeneralCounseland Secretary,Ameren 2017 491,000 – 908,343 – 491,427 256,027 33,501 2,180,298 2016 479,000 – 785,779 – 333,000 231,044 31,180 1,860,003 2015 467,500 – 887,485 – 301,210 55,209 37,443 1,748,847 (1) IncludescompensationreceivedasanofficerofAmerenanditssubsidiaries,exceptthatMr.BaxterservedasanofficerofAmerenonlyand notofitssubsidiaries. (2) CashcompensationreceivedbyeachNEOforfiscalyears2017,2016and2015isfoundintheSalaryorNon-EquityIncentivePlan Compensationcolumnofthistable.Theamountsthatwouldgenerallybeconsidered“bonus”awardsarefoundunderNon-EquityIncentive PlanCompensationincolumn(g). (3) Theamountsincolumn(e)representtheaggregategrantdatefairvaluecomputedinaccordancewithauthoritativeaccountingguidanceof PSUawardsunderour2014Plan,withoutregardtoestimatedforfeituresrelatedtoservice-basedvestingconditions.Forthe2017PSU grants,thecalculationsreflectanaccountingvalueof112.8percentofthetargetvalue;for2016grants,102.1percentofthetargetvalue; andfor2015grants,114.6percentofthetargetvalue.Assumptionsusedinthecalculationoftheamountsincolumn(e)aredescribedin Note11toourauditedfinancialstatementsforthefiscalyearendedDecember31,2017includedinour2017Form10-K.Themaximum valueofthe2017PSUawards,excludingdividends,isasfollows:Mr.Baxter—$8,923,889;Mr.Lyons—$2,976,635;Mr.Mark— $1,987,491;Mr.Moehn—$2,199,855andMr.Nelson—$1,811,465.Valuationsarebasedon$58.99pershare,themostrecentclosing priceofAmerenCommonStockontheNYSEasofDecember31,2017. TheamountsreportedforPSUawardgrantsincolumn(e)donotreflectactualcompensationrealizedbytheNEOsandarenotaguarantee oftheamountthattheNEOwillactuallyreceivefromthegrantofthePSUawards.TheactualcompensationrealizedbytheNEOswillbe baseduponthesharepriceofAmeren’sCommonStockatpayout.ThePSUPperformanceperiodsforthe2016and2017grantswillnotend untilDecember31,2018andDecember31,2019,respectively,and,assuch,theactualvalue,ifany,ofthePSUawardswillgenerally dependontheCompany’sachievementofcertainmarketperformancemeasuresduringtheseperiods.Forinformationregardingthetermsof theawards,thedescriptionofvestingconditions,andthecriteriafordeterminingtheamountspayable,including2015PSUawardsgranted foreachNEO,see“—C OMPENSATION D ISCUSSIONAND A NALYSIS .” (4) NoneoftheNEOsreceivedanyoptionawardsin2017,2016or2015. (5) Representspayoutsforperformanceundertheapplicableyear’sEIP.See“—C OMPENSATION D ISCUSSIONAND A NALYSIS ”foradiscussionof howamountsweredeterminedfor2017. 68 AmerenCorporation 2018ProxyStatement 2018NOTICEOFMEETINGANDPROXYSTATEMENT EXECUTIVECOMPENSATION The following table shows, for fiscal 2017, fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015, the compensation for the individuals serving as our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and our three most highly compensated executive officers (other than our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer) who were serving as executive officers at theendoffiscal2017. For information on the role of each compensation component within the total compensation packages of the NamedExecutiveOfficers,see“CompensationDiscussionandAnalysis—2017ExecutiveCompensationProgram.” 2017SUMMARYCOMPENSATIONTABLE NameandPrincipalPosition Year Salary ($) Bonus ($) Stock Awards ($) (1) Option Awards ($) (2) Non-Equity IncentivePlan Compensation ($) (3) AllOther Compensation ($) (4) Total($) LisaT.Su PresidentandChiefExecutiveOfficer 2017 924,997 — 6,980,740 1,897,770 1,076,700 14,614 10,894,821 2016 886,340 — 7,983,393 2,408,120 432,656 14,266 11,724,775 2015 849,992 300,000 4,438,124 (5) 1,804,858 — 25,412 7,418,386 DevinderKumar SeniorVicePresident,ChiefFinancialOfficerand Treasurer 2017 539,615 — 1,745,181 474,441 419,040 13,615 3,191,892 2016 530,005 — 2,280,965 688,034 172,250 13,337 3,684,591 2015 530,005 — 2,429,007 (5) 471,358 — 24,182 3,454,552 JamesR.Anderson SeniorVicePresidentandGeneralManager, ComputingandGraphicsBusinessGroup 2017 514,420 — 1,745,181 474,441 399,640 16,846 3,150,528 2016 499,990 — 2,280,965 688,034 162,500 22,707 3,654,196 2015 288,456 750,000 3,561,342 (5) 554,099 — 11,674 5,165,571 ForrestE.Norrod SeniorVicePresidentandGeneralManager, DatacenterandEmbeddedSolutions BusinessGroup 2017 530,005 — 1,745,181 474,441 411,280 16,698 3,177,605 2016 530,005 — 2,280,965 688,034 172,250 13,337 3,684,591 2015 530,005 — 2,086,902 (5) 471,358 — 20,431 3,108,696 MarkD.Papermaster ChiefTechnologyOfficerandSeniorVice President,TechnologyandEngineering 2017 611,328 (6) — 1,963,340 533,748 436,500 16,702 3,561,618 2016 549,994 — 2,280,965 688,034 178,750 13,390 3,711,133 2015 549,994 225,000 2,903,825 (5) 471,358 — 20,010 4,170,187 (1) Amounts shown in the column do not reflect dollar amounts actually received by the Named Executive Officers. Instead, these amounts representtheaggregategrantdatefairvalueoftheRSUsandPRSUsgrantedintheyearindicatedcomputedinaccordancewithASCTopic718. Thegrantdatefairvalue(whichissometimesreferredtointhisproxystatementasthe“accountingvalue”)isusedtorecognizetheaccounting expenseforlong-termequityawards.Foradiscussionoftheassumptionsmadeinthevaluationsreflectedinthiscolumn,seeNote14ofthe NotestoConsolidatedFinancialStatementsinourAnnualReport.Forfiscal2017,theamountsshownincludethegrantdatefairvalueofthe PRSUs awarded in fiscal 2017 to each Named Executive Officer, as set forth in the table below. The grant date fair value of the PRSUs is determinedusingaMonte-Carlosimulationmodelandbaseduponadiscountedcashflowanalysisoftheprobability-weightedpayoffsofa share-based payment assuming a variety of possible stock price paths and represents the estimate of aggregate compensation cost to be recognizedovertherequisiteserviceperioddeterminedasofthegrantdateunderASCTopic718. ADVANCEDMICRODEVICES,INC. | 2018ProxyStatement 53 Total of 02 pages in section