Company: VCYT
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001384101-25-000051
Chunk: 64

Company: VERACYTE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 64
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 Ownership Guidelines
We maintain stock ownership guidelines for our executive officers and members of our Board of Directors. Under these guidelines, the Chief Executive Officer and each other individual serving as a C-Level executive officer and each member of our Board of Directors must achieve the requirement within five years of becoming subject to the guidelines. We believe these stock ownership guidelines create alignment between our executive officers and members of the Board of Directors and the long-term performance of the company.

| Position                                                      |     | Requirement             |
| Chief Executive Officer                                       |     | 3x base salary          |
| C-Level Executive Officers other than Chief Executive Officer |     | 1x base salary          |
| Non-Employee Members of the Board of Directors                |     | 3x annual cash retainer |

For the purposes of determining stock ownership levels, the following forms of equity interests are included: shares owned by the officer directly, or held in trust for the benefit of, the officer or director or his or her immediate family members residing in same household or through trusts; and the “In-the-Money” value of vested stock option awards. Unvested stock options, unvested restricted stock units and unvested performance stock units are not included for the purposes of our stock ownership guidelines. The applicable guidelines must be met within the earliest of five years from: (i) joining Veracyte, (ii) promotion to a C-Level executive officer or (iii) establishment of the guidelines in February 2021. As of December 31, 2024, all non-employee directors and all of our current executive officers who are subject to these requirements were in compliance with our stock ownership guidelines, other than those executive officers whose employment began in 2022 or more recent years, each of whom has sufficient time remaining to meet the required ownership level.

#### 58Veracyte2025 Proxy Statement

#### Executive Compensation
Tax and Accounting Considerations

#### Deductibility of Executive Compensation
Our Compensation Committee may take into consideration the accounting and tax treatment of the compensation and benefit arrangements of our NEOs. These considerations are in addition to those described above that were material to the pay decisions for the most recent fiscal year.

While the Compensation Committee considers the deductibility of awards as one factor in determining executive compensation, the Compensation Committee also looks at other factors in making its decisions and retains the flexibility to award compensation that it determines to be consistent with the goals of our executive compensation program even if the awards are not deductible by us for tax purposes.

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