Company: WHWK
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020311
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Company: Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 different performance metrics depending on a person's position in the company or their business unit. Finally, we believe that the multi-year vesting of our equity awards properly account for the time horizon of risk.

### Overview
Our executive compensation program reflects our growth and corporate goals. To date, the compensation of the named executive officers has consisted of a combination of base salary, annual cash bonus, and long-term equity incentive compensation in the form of restricted stock and stock options, and other employee benefits generally available to our employees. The named executive officers are also entitled to compensation and benefits upon certain terminations of employment pursuant to their executive employment agreements as described below.

The named executive officers for the year ended December 31, 2024 were as follows:

• David Lennon, Ph.D., our President and Chief Executive Officer;

• Scott Giacobello, our Chief Financial Officer;

• Bryan Ball, our Chief Technical Operations Officer;

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• Neil Desai, Ph.D., our former Executive Chairman; and

• Loretta Itri, M.D., our former Chief Medical Officer.

#### Summary Compensation Table
The following table sets forth information regarding compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to each of the named executive officers for the years ending December 31, 2024 and 2023. The total compensation presented does not reflect the actual compensation received by our named executive officers. For example, the amounts in the “Stock Awards” column include the grant date fair values of time-based restricted stock units granted in that applicable year and the amounts in the “Option Awards” column include the grant date fair values of time-based stock options granted in that applicable year.

| Name and Principal Position           |     | Year |     | Salary ($) |         |     | Bonus  
 ($)(1) |         |     | Stock Awards ($)(2) |         |     | Option Awards 
 ($)(3)        |           |     | Non-Equity   
 Incentive    
 Compensation 
 ($)(4)       |        |     | All Other    
 Compensation 
 ($)(5)       |           |     | Total ($) |           |
| David Lennon (6)                      |     | 2024 |     |            | 654,400 |     |        |       — |     |                     | 124,800 |     |               |   232,868 |     |              |      — |     |              |         — |     |           | 1,012,068 |
| President