Cambridge's `Non-Profit' Draper Laboratory Paid CEO $712,000 In 2016

Over $239 million of the big money that Draper Laboratory made between June 2015 and July 2016 from its weapons technology development work for the U.S. war machine was used to pay the annual salaries of its 1,949 employees in 2016. And the total annual compensation paid by the tax-exempt and “non-profit” Draper Laboratory to its top executives was a lot higher than the annual salaries paid to most adjunct professors in the Greater Boston area. For example, between June 27, 2015 and July 1, 2016:

Draper Laboratory President and CEO Kaigham “Ken” Gabriel, a former Deputy and Acting Director of the Pentagon’s DARPA section and Google’s former Advanced Technology and Projects Group Deputy Director, was paid a total annual compensation of $712,008;

Draper Laboratory Vice-President for Strategic Systems Steven DiTullio was paid a total annual compensation of $555,278;

Draper Laboratory Vice-President for National Security & Space Systems Darryl Sargent was paid a total annual compensation of $536,241;

Draper Laboratory Vice-President of Finance & Administration Elizabeth Mora was paid a total annual compensation of $524,992;

Draper Laboratory Vice-President of Engineering John Dowdle was paid a total annual compensation of $522,778;

Draper Laboratory Program Director Phil Keating was paid a total annual compensation of $439,941;

Draper Laboratory Principal Director Paul Rosenstrach was paid a total annual compensation of $370,309;

Draper Laboratory Principal Director Marketing Frank Serna was paid a total annual compensation of $365,044;

Draper Laboratory Principal Director Anthony Kourepenis was paid a total annual compensation of $357,761;

Draper Laboratory Program Director Neil Adams was paid a total annual compensation of $337,624;

Draper Laboratory Engineering Director Heidi Perry was paid a total annual compensation of $326,320;

Draper Laboratory Principal Director Administration Jack Barry was paid a total annual compensation of $303,890; and

Draper Laboratory Director of Legal & Secretary Melinda Brown was paid a total annual compensation of $297,367.