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Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation
The Windstream 2007 Deferred Compensation Plan (the “2007 Plan”) is a non-qualified deferred compensation
plan offered to executive officers and other key employees. Participants may defer up to 25% of base salary and 50%
of bonus. The 2007 Plan also allows Windstream to make discretionary contributions to the 2007 Plan to replace
contributions that Windstream is limited from making to its 401(k) qualified plan as a result of limits imposed
by the Internal Revenue Code. These discretionary contributions equal the amount that could have been credited
to the executive officers as a matching contribution under Windstream’s 401(k) plan had compensation not been
limited under the 401(k) plan by the Internal Revenue Code, plus the amount, if any, by which the executive officer’s
matching contribution under the Windstream 401(k) plan is reduced due to the executive officer’s contributions to the
2007 Plan. Participant accounts are credited with earnings based on a portfolio of investment funds.
Payments are made under the 2007 Plan in cash at certain future dates as specified by the participants or upon
separation of service.
NON-QUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION
Name
Executive
Contributions
in Last
FY ($)
Windstream
Contributions
in Last
FY ($) (1)
Aggregate
Earnings in Last
FY ($) (2)
Aggregate
Withdrawals/
Distributions
($)
Aggregate
Balance at
12/31/2014
($) (3)(4)(5)
Anthony W. Thomas — 20,600 24,493 416,841 203,656
Robert E. Gunderman 10,186 1,566 3,459 — 77,373
John P. Fletcher — 24,200 1,639 — 180,217
J. David Works, Jr. — 17,836 1 — 17,837
John C. Eichler — 4,483 40,501 — 531,560
Jeffery R. Gardner 196,943 77,418 82,216 — 2,437,741
Brent Whittington — 33,488 74,692 — 1,305,392
(1) These amounts are also included in the “All Other Compensation” column of the Summary Compensation Table.
(2) There were no “above-market earnings” for 2014 and therefore none of these amounts were included in the
Summary Compensation Table.
(3) Balances are paid following termination or upon a date chosen by participant, subject to compliance with
Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.
(4) All amounts contributed by a named executive officer and Windstream in prior years have been reported in the
Summary Compensation Tables in our previously filed proxy statements in the year earned to the extent he/she
was a named executive officer for purposes of the SEC’s executive compensation disclosure.
(5) In addition to the amounts described in footnotes (1) and (4) above, the amount shown in this column includes
amounts reported as compensation for each of the NEOs in the Summary Compensation tables in prior years.