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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 made a qualitative assessment of Ms. Edwards’ level of knowledge and experience based on a number of factors, including her experience as an audit partner focused on public companies.

Report of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors

The Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, with management of the Company. The Audit Committee has discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) and the SEC. The Audit Committee has also received the written disclosures and the letter from the independent registered public accounting firm required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding the independent accountants’ communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence and has discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm the accounting firm’s independence. Based on the foregoing, the Audit Committee has recommended to the Board of Directors the audited financial statements be included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. The Audit Committee has approved the appointment of BDO USA, P.C. to serve as our independent public accountants for the year ending December 31, 2025 and has directed the appointment of BDO USA, P.C. be submitted to our stockholders for ratification.

THE AUDIT COMMITTEE

Shirley A. Edwards, Chair

A.G.W. “Jack” Biddle, III

Barbara “Bobbie” Kilberg

The material in this report is not “soliciting material,” is not deemed “filed” with the SEC, and is not to be incorporated by reference in any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date hereof and irrespective of any general incorporation language in any such filing.

#### Compensation Committee
The Compensation Committee is currently composed of three directors: Messrs. Hartman and McCarthy and Ms. Kilberg. Ms. Kilberg is the chair of the Compensation Committee. All members of the Company’s Compensation Committee are independent (as independence is currently defined in Rule 5605(d)(2) of the Nasdaq listing standards) except for Mr. McCarthy. The Compensation Committee met four times during 2024. The Board has adopted a written Compensation Committee charter available to stockholders on the Company’s website at investors.appian.com.

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