Company: CRNX
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-057452
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Company: Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
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you may authorize a proxy again on a later date on the Internet (only the latest Internet proxy submitted prior to the annual meeting will be counted),

you may notify our corporate secretary, Garlan Adams, at Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 6055 Lusk Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92121, Attention: Corporate Secretary, in writing before the annual meeting that you have revoked your proxy, after which you are entitled to submit a new proxy prior to the annual meeting or vote during the virtual annual meeting, or

you may submit an electronic ballot during the annual meeting.

What constitutes a quorum?

The presence at the annual meeting, by virtual attendance or by proxy, of holders representing a majority of our outstanding common stock as of April 14, 2025, or approximately 46,814,560 shares, constitutes a quorum at the

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annual meeting, permitting us to conduct our business. The inspector of election will determine whether a quorum is present and will tabulate the votes cast at the annual meeting.

How will my shares be voted if I do not specify how they should be voted?

If you are a stockholder of record and you indicate when voting on the Internet or by telephone that you wish to vote as recommended by the Board, then your shares will be voted at the annual meeting in accordance with the Board’s recommendation on all matters presented for a vote at the annual meeting. Similarly, if you sign and return a proxy card but do not indicate how you want to vote your shares for a particular proposal or for all of the proposals, then for any proposal for which you do not so indicate, your shares will be voted in accordance with the Board’s recommendation.

If you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name and do not provide the organization that holds your shares with specific voting instructions, then, the organization that holds your shares may generally vote your shares in their discretion on “routine” matters but cannot vote on “non-routine” matters. If the organization that holds your shares does not receive instructions from you on how to vote your shares on a non-routine matter, that organization will inform the inspector of election that it does not have the authority to vote on that matter with respect to your shares. This is generally referred to as a “broker non-vote.”

What are broker non-votes and do they count for determining a quorum?

Shares represented by proxies that reflect a broker non-vote will be counted as present for purposes of determining the