Company: YEXT
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001614178-25-000046
Chunk: 72

Company: Yext, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 to prepare Yext’s financial statements. These are the fundamental responsibilities of management. In the performance of its oversight function, the audit committee has:

• reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements for fiscal year 2025 with management of Yext;

• discussed with Ernst & Young, Yext’s independent registered public accounting firm, the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the PCAOB;

• received the written disclosures and the letters from Ernst & Young, as required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding the independent registered public accounting firm’s communications with the audit committee concerning independence, and has discussed with Ernst & Young, that firm’s independence.

Based on the audit committee’s review of the audited financial statements and the various discussions with management and Ernst & Young, the audit committee recommended to the board of directors that the audited financial statements be included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 for filing with the SEC.

#### The Audit Committee
Mark Davis (Chair)

Andrew Sheehan

Hillary Smith

This report of the audit committee shall not be deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulation 14A promulgated by the SEC or Section 18 of the Exchange Act, and shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any prior or subsequent filing by Yext under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, or the Exchange Act, except to the extent Yext specifically requests that the information be treated as “soliciting material” or specifically incorporates it by reference.

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## ITEM 3 —

## Advisory Vote to Approve the Compensation of our Named Executive Officers
Section 14A of the Exchange Act requires that we provide our stockholders with the opportunity to vote to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, not less frequently than once every three years, the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in the section “Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” the compensation tables and the related narratives appearing in this proxy statement. The vote on this resolution is not intended to address any specific element of compensation, but rather the overall compensation of our named executive officers and the design and effectiveness of our executive compensation program.

As described under “Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” to attract and retain qualified executive candidates, our compensation committee seeks to develop competitive compensation packages while rewarding named executive officers for performance. At the same time, our