Company: CYTK
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-013167
Chunk: 3

Company: CYTOKINETICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 3
---
3 and following the recorded instructions. For Shares Registered in the Name of a Broker, Bank or Other Agent Most beneficial owners whose stock is held in street name receive instructions for granting proxies from their banks, brokers or other agents, rather than our proxy card. A number of brokers and banks are participating in a program provided through Broadridge Financial Solutions that offers the means to grant proxies to vote shares via telephone and the internet. If your shares are held in an account with a broker or bank participating in the Broadridge Financial Solutions program, you may grant a proxy to vote those shares telephonically by calling the telephone number shown on the instruction form received from your broker or bank, or via the internet at Broadridge Financial Solutions’ website at proxyvote.com.If you are unable to vote by proxy, please contact your broker or bank for instructions on how to vote. General Information for All Shares Voted via the Internet or by Telephone Votes submitted via the internet or by telephone must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on May 13, 2025. Submitting your proxy via the internet or by telephone will not affect your right to vote in person should you decide to attend the Annual Meeting. Quorum; Withhold Votes; Abstentions; Broker Non-Votes Votes cast by proxy or in person at the Annual Meeting (“Votes Cast”) will be tabulated by the Inspector. The Inspector will also determine whether a quorum is present. For the election of directors, Proposal 1, the three directors receiving the most “FOR” votes will be elected; “WITHHOLD” and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of the vote. With respect to Proposals 2, 4, and 5, such proposals will be approved if a majority of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the applicable proposal vote “FOR” that proposal; votes to “ABSTAIN” on Proposals 2, 4, and 5 will have the same effect as votes “AGAINST,” and broker non-votes will have no effect on Proposals 2 and 5; we do not expect any broker non-votes on Proposal 4. With respect to Proposal 3, such proposal will be approved if more votes are cast “FOR” the proposal in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting than are cast “AGAINST” the proposal at the Annual Meeting; votes to “ABSTAIN” will have no effect on the outcome of