Company: VCYT
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001384101-25-000051
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Company: VERACYTE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 and the SEC’s rules and regulations. The Clawback Policy requires us to recover certain incentive-based compensation (as defined in the Clawback Policy) paid or granted to our officers, and such additional employees as may be identified from time to time, in the event we are required to prepare an accounting restatement due to our material noncompliance with any financial reporting requirement under the securities laws. The policy requires each person covered thereby to reimburse or forfeit to us all incentive-based compensation received by them prior to the restatement that exceeds the amount they would have received had their incentive-based compensation been calculated based on the

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#### Executive Compensation
financial restatement. The recovery period extends up to three years prior to the date that it is, or reasonably should have been, concluded that we are required to prepare a restatement. The Clawback Policy applies to incentive-based compensation that is received (as defined in the Clawback Policy) after the effective date of the applicable Nasdaq rules. Per applicable requirements, the Clawback Policy is enforced without consideration of responsibility or fault or lack thereof. The full text of the Clawback Policy is included as Exhibit 97.1 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Hedging, Derivative Securities Transactions, Short Selling and Pledging

Under our Insider Trading Policy, our employees (including our executive officers) and the non-employee members of our Board of Directors are prohibited from engaging in hedging or monetization transactions involving our securities, such as zero-cost collars and forward sale contracts and may not contribute our securities to exchange funds that could be interpreted as having the effect of hedging in our securities. Further, our employees (including executive officers) and the non-employee members of our Board of Directors are prohibited from engaging in transactions involving options or other derivative securities on our securities, such as puts and calls, whether on an exchange or in any other market and from engaging in short sales of our securities, including short sales “against the box.”

Also, under our Insider Trading Policy, our employees (including our executive officers) and the non-employee members of our Board of Directors are prohibited from using or pledging our securities as collateral in a margin account or as collateral for a loan. The full text of our Insider Trading Policy is included as Exhibit 19 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

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