Company: ACHV
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-059297
Chunk: 46

Company: ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 46
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,350,000 | ) |

(1) Richard Stewart is our Chief Executive Officer and has been our PEO since August 2024; he was a non-PEO NEO in 2022, 2023 and 2024 (until August). (2) John Bencich was our PEO in 2022, 2023 and 2024 (until August); he was our Chief Executive Officer from September 2020 to August 2024. (3) Cindy Jacobs was a non-PEO NEO in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Mark Oki has been a non-PEO NEO since December 2024.

(4) Compensation Actually Paid reflects the exclusions and inclusions of certain amounts for the PEO and the Non-PEO NEOs as set forth below. Equity values are calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. Amounts in the Exclusion of Stock Awards and Option Awards columns are the totals from the Stock Awards and Option Awards columns set forth in the Summary Compensation Table.

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(5) Represents the cumulative total return on $100 invested in the Company’s common stock as of the last day of public trading of the Company’s common stock in fiscal year 2021 through the last day of public trading of the Company’s common stock in the applicable fiscal year for which the cumulative total return is reported.

| Year |     | Summary      
 Compensation 
 Table Total  
 for PEO      
 ($)(1)       |           |     | Summary      
 Compensation 
 Table Total  
 for PEO      
 ($)(2)       |           |     | Exclusion of   
 Stock Awards   
 and Option     
 Awards for PEO 
 ($)(1)         |          |   |     | Exclusion of   
 Stock Awards   
 and Option     
 Awards for PEO 
 ($)(2)         |            |   |     | Inclusion of  
 Equity Values 
 for PEO       
 ($)(1)        |         |     | Inclusion of  
 Equity Values 
 for PEO       
 ($)(2)        |         |     | Compensation  
 Actually Paid 
 to PEO        
 ($)(1)        |           |     | Compensation  
 Actually Paid 
 to PEO        
 ($)(2)        |           |
| 2024 |     |              | 1,735,552 |     |              | 2,518,977 |     |                | (843,420 | ) |     |                | (1,054,