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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#### 2024 Performance Measures
The following table is a list of the most important performance measures (all non-financial) that are used by the Company to link compensation actually paid to company performance for the most recently completed fiscal year:

| Alignment with corporate strategy           |
| Total software annual contract value growth |

#### DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

#### Non-Employee Director Compensation Arrangements
Our Board has adopted a director compensation policy for non-employee directors, which provides for the compensation of non-employee directors with cash and equity compensation. For 2024, under the policy, each non-employee director receives an annual board service retainer of $250,000. The annual retainers are paid one-half in the form of cash and one-half in the form of fully-vested shares of our Class A common stock to be issued pursuant to our 2017 Plan. The number of shares of Class A common stock is determined by dividing the dollar amount of retainers to be paid in shares by the fair market value per share of our common stock on the date the retainer is payable, rounded down to the nearest whole share. All equity awards under this policy are also subject to the limitations on compensation payable to non-employee directors set forth in our 2017 Plan. The annual retainers are paid or granted, as applicable, in equal quarterly installments in advance on the first day of each fiscal quarter in which the service occurs. Non-employee directors who join our Board at a time other than the first day of a fiscal quarter are paid and granted a prorated portion of the annual retainer. We also reimburse all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by non-employee directors in attending meetings of our Board or any committee thereof.

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Additionally, Mr. Lynch received a salary of $162,879 in 2024 in addition to a cash bonus and stock awards for his services to us as Interim Chief Financial Officer. See above under “2024 Executive Compensation Program.”

#### 2024 Director Compensation Table
The following table shows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 certain information with respect to the compensation of all non-employee directors of the Company. Matthew Calkins, our CEO, Michael Beckley, our CTO, and Robert Kramer, our General Manager, are executive officers and also members of our Board, but they do not receive any additional compensation for their service as directors. Messrs. Calkins’ and Kramer’s compensation as