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

Company: VERACYTE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 25
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 will accelerate in full upon a change in control. Pursuant to the terms of the 2023 Plan, no non-employee director may receive equity awards that, when combined with cash compensation received for service as a non-employee director, exceeds $750,000 in value in any calendar year, or $1,500,000 in value in the calendar year in which such director first joins our Board of Directors.

In February 2025, our Compensation Committee and Board of Directors reviewed our then-current non-employee director compensation program and competitive market data on the same, and determined to retain the cash retainer without change from 2024 (as detailed above). In February 2025, our Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors also determined to reduce the initial grant for new non-employee directors to $250,000 from $500,000, while retaining the annual equity awards at $250,000. Additionally, beginning in 2025, the initial grant is to be prorated based on whole months of service prior to the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and the six-month service requirement for the annual grant was removed.

#### Veracyte2025 Proxy Statement25
| PROPOSAL TWO |

Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Audit Committee has appointed Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025. Ernst & Young LLP has audited our financial statements since 2014. Representatives of Ernst & Young LLP are expected to be present at the Annual Meeting. They will have an opportunity to make a statement, if they desire to do so, and will be available to respond to appropriate questions.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Fees and Services

The following table presents fees billed for professional audit services and other services rendered to us by Ernst & Young LLP for the years ending December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

| Fees                  |     | Year Ended December 31, |           | 2024 
 ($)  |     |           | 2023 
 ($)  |
|:----------------------|:----|:------------------------|----------:|:-----|:----|----------:|:-----|
| Audit Fees(1)         |     |                         | 2,615,955 |      |     | 2,519,149 |      |
| Audit-related Fees(2) |     |                         |         — |      |     |         — |      |
| Tax Fees(3