Company: VERA
Filing Date: 2025-11-26
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001193125-25-300647
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Company: Vera Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-26
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 25, 2025, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Vera Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed James R. Meyers to the Board, effective immediately. Mr. Meyers will serve as a Class II Director, with an initial term expiring at the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Mr. Meyers was also appointed to serve on the Audit Committee of the Board (the “ Audit Committee”), effective as of his appointment to the Board.

Contingent upon and effective as of Mr. Meyers’ appointment to the Board, Mr. Meyers was automatically granted a nonstatutory stock option award (the “ Option Grant”) to purchase 25,000 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock (“Common Stock”), pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy (as it may be amended from time to time, the “Policy”). The Option Grant will vest monthly over a three-year period, subject to Mr. Meyers’ continuous service as of each such vesting date, and is otherwise subject to the same terms set forth in the Policy for initial grants to new directors. In addition, in accordance with the Policy, Mr. Meyers will also receive an annual cash retainer of $40,000 for his service on the Board, and $10,000 for his service on the Audit Committee, each of which will be pro-rated for 2025. Pursuant to the Policy, commencing with the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Mr. Meyers will be eligible to receive an annual option grant to purchase the lesser of (i) 14,000 shares of Common Stock and (ii) the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that would result in the option having a grant date fair value of not more than $400,000, subject to his continuous service as of such date. The shares subject to each such option grant would vest on the earlier of (a) the first anniversary of the date of grant and (b) the date of the Company’s next annual meeting of stockholders, subject to Mr. Meyers’ continuous service as of each such date.

Mr. Meyers will enter into the Company’s standard form of indemnification agreement. There were no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Meyers and