Company: APPN
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001441683-25-000031
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Company: APPIAN CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
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, accounting, or other outside advisors as it deems appropriate to carry out its responsibilities. The Board of Directors has determined each member of each committee meets the applicable Nasdaq rules and regulations regarding “independence,” and each member is free of any relationship that would impair his or her individual exercise of independent judgment with regard to the Company.

#### Audit Committee
The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors was established by the Board in accordance with Section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Exchange Act. As described in more detail in its charter, the principal duties and responsibilities of the Audit Committee include, among other things:

• Helping our Board of Directors oversee our corporate accounting and financial reporting processes;

• Managing the selection, engagement, qualifications, independence, and performance of a qualified firm to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit our financial statements;

• Discussing the scope and results of the audit with the independent registered public accounting firm, and reviewing, with management and the independent accountants, our interim and year-end operating results;

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• Developing procedures for employees to submit concerns anonymously about questionable accounting or audit matters;

• Reviewing our policies on financial reporting risk assessment and management;

• Reviewing related party transactions;

• Obtaining and reviewing a report by the independent registered public accounting firm, at least annually, that describes its internal quality-control procedures, any material issues with such procedures, and any steps taken to deal with such issues when required by applicable law; and

• Approving (or, as permitted, pre-approving) all audit and all permissible non-audit services, other than de minimis non-audit services, to be performed by the independent registered public accounting firm.

The Audit Committee is currently composed of three directors: Mses. Edwards and Kilberg and Mr. Biddle. Ms. Edwards is the chair of the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee met five times during 2024. The Board has adopted a written Audit Committee charter available to stockholders on the Company’s website at investors.appian.com.

The Board of Directors reviews the Nasdaq listing standards’ definition of independence for Audit Committee members on an annual basis and has determined all members of the Company’s Audit Committee are independent (as independence is currently defined in Rule 5605(c)(2)(A)(i) and (ii) of the Nasdaq listing standards). The Board of Directors has also determined Ms. Edwards qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert,” as defined in applicable SEC rules. The Board