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55. Paul Hermelin, Capgemini: $2.75M

Position: Group Chairman and CEO

Base Salary: $1.58M

Other Compensation: $622,000

Bonus: $549,000

Hermelin joined Capgemini 24 years ago and became CEO at the start of 2002.

The fiscal year for Capgemini, No. 6 on the CRN SP 500, ended Dec. 31, with sales for the Paris-based company climbing 5.2 percent to $13.63 billion and net profit plummeting by 18 percent to $1 billion. Capgemini's stock price slipped 5.9 percent over the 2016 calendar year to $87.12 per share.

Variable compensation for Hermelin included both financial objectives around revenue, operating income, pre-tax net profits and free cash flow, as well as individual objectives around the integration of iGate, talent development, account centricity, and industrialization.