It came from vested stock options. For all we know they could have been worth 200K 4 years ago. But even if it wasn't, why shouldn't the top technical talent

It came from vested stock options. For all we know they could have been worth 200K 4 years ago. But even if it wasn't, why shouldn't the top technical talent at high tech firms make more money that corporate CFOs? In this case it's easy to see why their value added could have been 10 times the salary.