Company: KROS
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-037982
Chunk: 31

Company: Keros Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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 charter of the Compensation Committee grants the Compensation Committee full access to all books, records, facilities and personnel of the Company. In addition, under the charter, the Compensation Committee has the authority to obtain, at our expense, advice and assistance from compensation consultants and internal and external legal, accounting or other advisers and other external resources that the Compensation Committee considers necessary or appropriate in the performance of its duties. The Compensation Committee has direct responsibility for the oversight of the work of any consultants or advisers engaged for the purpose of advising the Compensation Committee. In particular, the Compensation Committee has the sole authority to retain, in its sole discretion, compensation consultants to assist in its evaluation of executive and director compensation, including the authority to approve the consultant’s reasonable fees and other retention terms. Under its charter, the Compensation Committee may select, or receive advice from, a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser to the Compensation Committee, other than in-house legal counsel and certain other types of advisers, only after assessing the independence of such person in accordance with SEC and Nasdaq requirements that bear upon the adviser’s independence; however, there is no requirement that any adviser be independent. In April 2024, after taking into consideration the six factors prescribed by the SEC and Nasdaq, the Compensation Committee engaged Radford, a compensation consulting platform of Aon Consulting Inc., to perform the services described in “Executive Compensation — Compensation Discussion and Analysis — Role of Compensation Consultant.” The Compensation Committee has assessed Radford’s independence and determined that Radford had no conflicts of interest in connection with its provisions of services to the Compensation Committee in fiscal 2024. The selection of Radford was made without the input or influence of management. Additional information regarding the Compensation Committee’s processes and procedures, including the role of compensation consultants in evaluating the amount or form of executive and director compensation, can be found in the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section of this Proxy Statement. The specific determinations of our Compensation Committee with respect to executive compensation for the year ended December 31, 2024 are described in greater detail in the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section of this Proxy Statement. Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation No member of the Compensation Committee is a current or former officer or employee of the Company. During 2024, none of our executive officers served on the board of directors or compensation committee of any other company that has an executive officer serving on our Board or the Compensation Committee. Report The Report of the Compensation Committee is set forth beginning on page 46 of this Proxy Statement.