Company: LENZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-100630
Chunk: 27

Company: LENZ Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 as a non-employee director; |

| • |     | $30,000 per year for service as non-employee chair of our board of directors; |

| • |     | $15,000 per year for service as chair of our audit committee; |

| • |     | $7,500 per year for service as a member of our audit committee; |

| • |     | $12,000 per year for service as chair of our compensation committee; |

| • |     | $6,000 per year for service as a member of our compensation committee; |

| • |     | $10,000 per year for service as chair of our nominating and corporate governance committee; and |

| • |     | $5,000 per year for service as a member of our nominating and corporate governance committee. |

Each non-employeedirector who serves as a committee chair of our board of directors receives the cash retainer fee as the chair of the committee but not the cash retainer fee as a member of that committee, provided that the non-employeedirector who serves as the non-employeechair of our board of directors receives the annual retainer fees for such role as well as the annual retainer fee for service as a non-employeedirector. These fees to our non-employeedirectors are paid quarterly in arrears on a prorated basis. The above-listed fees for service as non-employeechair of our board of directors or a chair or member of any committee are payable in addition to the non-employeedirector retainer. Under our Outside Director Compensation Policy, we also reimburse our non-employeedirectors for reasonable travel expenses to attend meetings of our board of directors and its committees. Equity Compensation Initial Award.Pursuant to our Outside Director Compensation Policy, each person who first becomes a non-employeedirector after the effective date of such policy will receive, on the first trading day on or after the date that the person first becomes a non-employeedirector (the first date as a non-employeedirector, the “Initial Start Date”), an initial award of stock options to purchase 27,000 shares of our common stock (the “Initial Award”). Each Initial Award will be scheduled to vest in equal monthly installments over thirty-six(36) months on the same day of each relevant month as the applicable vesting date, in each case subject to the outside director continuing to be an outside director through the applicable vesting date. If