Company: CYTK
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001193125-25-282889
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Company: CYTOKINETICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On November 13, 2025, Cytokinetics, Incorporated (the “ Company”) entered into an employment offer letter (the “ Offer Letter”) with Jeffrey J. Hessekiel, pursuant to which Mr. Hessekiel has agreed to serve as the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer, effective as of November 14, 2025 (the “ Start Date”).

Prior to his anticipated employment with the Company, Mr. Hessekiel, 56, served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Exelixis, Inc. from February 2014 to November 2025 and as Secretary from October 2014 to September 2017, and again from January 2022 to September 2024. From 2012 to 2014, he held the position of Senior Counsel at Arnold & Porter LLP, where he advised emerging growth and public companies, primarily in the life sciences sector, on complex legal issues connected with strategic transactions, healthcare compliance programs and investigations, and regulatory matters. Prior to working with Arnold & Porter, from 2002 to 2012, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Gilead Sciences, Inc., most recently as Chief Compliance & Quality Officer. From 1998 to 2002, Mr.  Hessekiel held the position of Associate, working on both litigation and corporate matters for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati PC. Mr.  Hessekiel also worked as an Associate for Heller Ehrman LLP from 1996 to 1998. Prior to his legal career, Mr.  Hessekiel also worked in the United States and abroad for several international non-governmental organizations. In the not-for-profit sector, Mr. Hessekiel serves as a member of the boards of directors of Biocom California, the trade association representing California’s life science sector, Life Sciences Cares, Inc., a collective effort of life science companies to eliminate the impacts of poverty on our neighbors; and HairToStay. Mr.  Hessekiel received his J. D. from The George Washington University Law School and is admitted to practice in California. Mr.  Hessekiel received a B. A. in Political Science from Duke University.

Under the terms of the Offer