Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
Chunk: 60

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 60
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 Statement. Specifically, stockholders are being asked to approve the following resolution at the Annual Meeting:

RESOLVED, that the compensation paid to the named executive officers, as disclosed in this Proxy Statement pursuant to the SEC’s executive compensation disclosure rules, which disclosure includes the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the compensation tables, and the narrative disclosures that accompany the compensation tables, is hereby approved.

This non-binding advisory vote is commonly referred to as a “say-on-pay” vote and is held annually. It is expected that the next say-on-pay vote will occur at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

### Synopsys, Inc.
Compensation Discussion and Analysis

This Compensation Discussion and Analysis (CD&A) discusses the compensation of our NEOs for fiscal 2024.

#### Fiscal 2024 NEOs
| Sassine Ghazi                         
 President and Chief Executive Officer |     | Dr. Aart J. de Geus 
 Executive Chair     |     | Shelagh Glaser  
 Chief Financial 
 Officer         |     | Rick Mahoney  
 Chief Revenue 
 Officer       |     | John F. Runkel, Jr.                     
 General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |

| Executive Summary                         |     | 56 |
| Fiscal 2024Executive Compensation         |     | 63 |
| Base Salary                               |     | 64 |
| Short-Term Cash Incentives                |     | 65 |
| Equity Awards                             |     | 72 |
| Other Benefits                            |     | 76 |
| Severance and Change of Control Benefits  |     | 77 |
| Key Fiscal 2025NEO Compensation Decisions |     | 78 |
| Our Compensation Decision-making Process  |     | 79 |
| Executive Compensation Risk Management    |     | 82 |
| Conclusion                                |     | 82 |

#### Executive Summary
Chief Executive Officer Transition

Following a systematic, multi-year succession development and planning process, on January 1, 2024, Mr. Ghazi succeeded our co-founder Dr. de Geus as Chief Executive Officer, and Dr. de Geus transitioned from his role as Chief Executive Officer to Executive Chair. Over his career at Synopsys spanning more than 25 years, Mr. Ghazi has embodied our values and culture, has driven our innovative technology, has shown strong operational experience in running Synopsys, and has built deep, trusting relationships with our employees, customers and ecosystem stakeholders. Since assuming the Chief Executive Officer role at the beginning of 2024, Mr.