Company: CSTL
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001447362-25-000054
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Company: CASTLE BIOSCIENCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: DEF 14A
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26Castle Biosciences 2025 Proxy Statement
| Information Regarding the Board of Directors and Corporate Governance |

develop the peer group of comparative companies and to perform analyses of compensation levels for that group. Aon developed peer group and related recommendations that were presented to the Compensation Committee for its consideration.

Under its charter, the Compensation Committee may form, and delegate authority to, subcommittees as appropriate. The Compensation Committee has delegated authority to the CEO and Chief Financial Officer, acting jointly (together, the “Authorized Officers”), to grant, without any further action required by the Compensation Committee, equity awards to employees who are below the level of vice president of the Company, within specific approved ranges, which vary by position classification, as set forth by the Compensation Committee. The purpose of this delegation of authority is to enhance the flexibility of equity award administration within the Company and to facilitate the timely grant of equity awards to non-executive employees and consultants under the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”) within specified limits approved by the Compensation Committee. Typically, as part of its oversight function, the Compensation Committee will review the list of predetermined schedule grants made by the Authorized Officers, without the use of material nonpublic information, at each regularly scheduled in-person meeting. Predetermined schedule grants are issued bi-monthly, mid-month and at the end of the month, with a standard four-year vesting term. See also “Pay Versus Performance—Policies and Practices Related to the Grant of Certain Equity Awards Close in Time to the Release of Material Nonpublic Information.”

The Compensation Committee holds one or more meetings at the end of the year and/or during the first quarter of the year to discuss and make recommendations to the board of directors for annual compensation adjustments, annual bonuses, annual equity awards, and new corporate performance objectives. For executives other than the CEO, the Compensation Committee solicits and considers evaluations and recommendations submitted to the Compensation Committee by the CEO. In the case of the CEO, the evaluation of his performance is conducted by the Compensation Committee and is recommended to the board of directors.

#### Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee consists of Tiffany Olson , Kimberlee S. Caple , Ellen Goldberg and Miles D. Harrison . All members of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee are independent (as independence is currently defined in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2)). Ms. Olson serves as the Chair of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. The Nominating and