Company: BL
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001666134-25-000011
Chunk: 46

Company: BLACKLINE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 46
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 is required to restate its financial statements due to the Company’s material noncompliance with any financial reporting requirements under the securities laws. |     | What we don't do                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 ✘No “Golden Parachute” Tax Reimbursements. We do not provide any tax reimbursement payments (including “gross-ups”) on any tax liability that our NEOs might owe as a result of the application of Sections 280G or 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
 ✘No Special Retirement Plans. We do not offer, nor do we have plans to provide, pension arrangements, retirement plans or nonqualified deferred compensation plans or arrangements exclusively to our NEOs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 ✘No Special Health and Welfare Benefits. Our NEOs participate in the same Company-sponsored health and welfare benefits programs as our other full-time, salaried employees.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 ✘No “Single Trigger” Change of ControlArrangements. No change of control payments or benefits are triggered simply by the occurrence of a change of control. All change-of-control payments and benefits are based on a “double-trigger” arrangement (that is, they either require both a change of control of the Company plus a qualifying termination of employment before payments and benefits are paid or, in the case of certain performance awards, require a change of control of the Company and the award is not assumed in the acquisition). 
 ✘No Hedging or Pledging. We have a policy that restricts employees from hedging our securities or pledging our securities as collateral.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

#### Governance of Executive Compensation Program

#### Role of the Compensation Committee
The Compensation Committee discharges the responsibilities of our Board relating to the compensation of our NEOs. With respect to our NEOs, the Compensation Committee reviews and approves at the beginning of the year, or more frequently as warranted, their annual base salaries; cash bonus opportunities and cash bonus payments; long-term equity incentive compensation; employment offers (including post-employment compensation arrangements); and other compensation, perquisites, and other personal benefits, if any.

The Compensation Committee’s practice of developing and maintaining compensation arrangements that are competitive includes a balance between hiring and retaining the best possible talent and maintaining a reasonable and responsible cost structure.

#### Compensation-Setting Process
We do not establish a specific target for setting the target total direct compensation opportunity of our NEOs. When determining and setting the amount of each compensation element, the Compensation Committee considers the following factors: