Company: VCYT
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001384101-25-000051
Chunk: 117

Company: VERACYTE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 117
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 a significant equity interest, in either case as determined by the Committee, whether now or hereafter existing.

28.2. “Award” means any award under this Plan, including any Option, Restricted Stock Award, Stock Bonus, Stock Appreciation Right, Restricted Stock Unit or Performance Award.

28.3. “Award Agreement” means, with respect to each Award, the written or electronic agreement between the Company and the Participant setting forth the terms and conditions of the Award, and country-specific appendix thereto for grants to non-U.S. Participants, which will be in substantially a form (which need not be the same for each Participant) that the Committee (or in the case of Award Agreements that are not used for Insiders, the Committee’s delegate(s)) has from time to time approved, and will comply with and be subject to the terms and conditions of this Plan.

28.4. “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

28.5. “Cause” means a determination by the Company (and in the case of Participant who is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, the Committee) that the Participant has committed an act or acts constituting any of the following: (a) willful failure substantially to perform his or her duties and responsibilities to the Company or deliberate violation of a Company policy (including the Company’s code of conduct); (b) commission of any act of fraud, embezzlement, dishonesty or any other willful misconduct that has caused or is reasonably expected to result in material injury to the Company; (c) unauthorized use or disclosure of any proprietary information or trade secrets of the Company or any other party to whom the Participant owes an obligation of nondisclosure as a result of his or her relationship with the Company; (d) misappropriation of a business opportunity of the Company; (e) while providing service to the Company, the provision of material aid to a competitor of the Company; (f) willful breach of any of his or her obligations under any written agreement or covenant with the Company; or (g) failure to cooperate with an internal investigation or an investigation by regulatory or law enforcement authorities after being instructed by the Company to cooperate. The determination as to whether Cause for a Participant’s termination exists will be made in good faith by the Company and will be final and binding on the Participant. This definition does not in any way limit the Company’s or any Parent’s or Subsidiary’s or Affiliate’s ability to terminate a Participant’s Service at