Company: WHWK
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020311
Chunk: 30

Company: Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 30
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 Officer does not make recommendations as to the Chief Executive Officer's own compensation or attend the portions of the meeting relating to the Chief Executive Officer's compensation. Our Chief Executive Officer makes recommendations to our Compensation Committee regarding short- and long-term compensation for all executive officers (other than himself) based on our results, an individual executive officer’s contribution toward these results and individual goal achievement. Our Compensation Committee then reviews the recommendations and market data. Our Compensation Committee makes decisions as to total compensation for each executive officer, although it may instead, in its discretion, make recommendations to our Board regarding executive compensation.

Our Compensation Committee is authorized to retain the services of one or more executive compensation advisors, as it sees fit, in connection with the establishment of our compensation programs and related policies. As a part of determining compensation for our named executive officers, the Compensation Committee engaged Radford, a business unit of Aon plc, as an independent compensation consultant. Radford provides analysis and recommendations to the Compensation Committee regarding:

• trends and emerging topics with respect to executive compensation;

• peer group selection for executive compensation benchmarking;

• compensation practices of our peer group;

• compensation programs for executives and all of our employees; and

• stock utilization and related metrics.

When requested, Radford consultants attend meetings of the Compensation Committee, including executive sessions in which executive compensation issues are discussed. Radford reports to the Compensation Committee and not to management, although Radford meets with management for purposes of gathering information for its analyses and recommendations.

In determining to engage Radford, the Compensation Committee considered the independence of Radford and determined that there were no conflicts of interest and that Radford is independent pursuant to the independence standards set forth in the Nasdaq listing standards promulgated pursuant to Section 10C of the Exchange Act.

Risk Assessment. Our Compensation Committee has reviewed our incentive compensation programs and discussed the concept of risk as it relates to our compensation program. We believe our approach to goal setting, setting of targets with payouts at multiple levels of performance, and evaluation of performance results assist in mitigating excessive or inappropriate risk-taking. Key features of our programs reflect sound risk management practices. We believe we have allocated our compensation among base salary and short- and long-term compensation target opportunities in such a way as to not encourage excessive risk-taking. Further, with respect to our incentive compensation programs, compensation is generally linked to both corporate performance and individual performance. Our corporate targets are applicable to our executives and employees alike, regardless of business unit. We believe this encourages consistent behavior across the organization, rather than establishing