Company: BL
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001666134-25-000011
Chunk: 27

Company: BLACKLINE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 Outside Director Compensation Policy
Members of our Board who are not employees are eligible for compensation under our Outside Director Compensation Policy, adopted in 2016 in connection with our initial public offering. Mr. Ryan and Ms. Tucker, our Co-CEOs, do not receive compensation under our Outside Director Compensation Policy at any time they are serving as employees of the Company.

The Outside Director Compensation Policy was developed in consultation with Compensia, Inc. (“Compensia”), an independent compensation consulting firm. Compensia provided recommendations and competitive non-employee director compensation data and analyses. Our Board considered and discussed these recommendations and data, and considered the specific duties and committee responsibilities of particular directors. Our Board adopted Compensia’s recommendations when it approved our Outside Director Compensation Policy, which we believe provides our non-employee directors with reasonable and appropriate compensation that is commensurate with the services they provide and competitive with compensation paid by our peer group companies to their non-employee directors.

The Compensation Committee periodically reviews the type and form of compensation paid to our non-employee directors, which includes a market assessment and analysis by Compensia. As part of this analysis, Compensia reviews non-employee director compensation trends and data from companies comprising the same executive compensation peer group used by the Compensation Committee in connection with its review of executive compensation.

Under our Outside Director Compensation Policy as in effect for fiscal year 2024, non-employee directors received compensation in the form of equity and cash, as described below:

#### Cash Compensation
During fiscal year 2024, 8 each non-employee director was eligible to receive the following annual cash retainers for certain Board and/or committee service:

| Board/Committee                               |     | Member ($) |        |
| Board                                         |     |            | 40,000 |
| Audit Committee                               |     |            | 10,000 |
| Compensation Committee                        |     |            |  7,500 |
| Technology and Cybersecurity Committee        |     |            |  5,000 |
| Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee |     |            |  4,000 |

Each non-employee director serving as Lead Independent Director or a committee Chair was eligible to receive the following additional cash retainers:

Chair of the Board: $43,000 9

Lead Independent Director: $30,000

Audit Committee Chair: $20,000

Compensation Committee Chair: $15,000

Technology and Cybersecurity Committee Chair: $10,000

Nominating and