Company: VCYT
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001384101-25-000051
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Company: VERACYTE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 some value to the recipient even if the market price of our common stock declines following the grant date.

The Compensation Committee initially determines the size of equity grants by considering the executive officer’s position and market data of our peer group companies as provided by Aon as well as overall dilution and other inputs. The Compensation Committee then takes into consideration each NEO’s recent performance history, his or her potential for future responsibility and criticality of his or her work to the long-term success of our company and the retention value of outstanding awards. The Compensation Committee uses its judgment to give relative weight to each of these factors as it sets the size of the equity grant to appropriately create an opportunity for reward based on increasing stockholder value. For newly hired or promoted executive officers, the Compensation Committee also takes into consideration the value needed to induce the individual to accept the position and to drive substantial performance.

#### 2024 Equity Grants
In February 2024, the Compensation Committee (and, in the case of our Chief Executive Officer, our Board of Directors), in consultation with Aon and in consideration of governance best practices as well as ongoing market trends and data of our compensation peers, determined to provide NEOs with annual grants that consisted of 50% RSUs and 50% PSUs. While no longer granting options to our NEOs, PSUs increased as a portion of 2024 total equity compensation (“2024 PSUs”). The terms of these 2024 PSUs are described below. The approved annual equity awards were granted to the NEOs, in the following amounts:

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#### Executive Compensation
| Executive        |     |         | RSUs 
 (#)  |     |         | PSUs 
 (#)  |
| Marc Stapley     |     | 114,724 |      |     | 114,724 |      |
| Rebecca Chambers |     |  59,856 |      |     |  59,856 |      |
| Phillip Febbo    |     |  39,904 |      |     |  39,904 |      |
| John Leite       |     |  49,880 |      |     |  49,880 |      |
| Annie McGuire    |     |  49,880 |      |     |  49,880 |      |

#### Time-Based Vesting RSUs
The annual RSU awards granted in March 2024 vest as to 1/4 on the first anniversary of