Company: VCYT
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001384101-25-000051
Chunk: 19

Company: VERACYTE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 to have a significant impact on our financial statements. The Compensation Committee reviews major compensation- and human capital-related risk exposures and the steps management has taken to monitor or mitigate such exposures. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee reviews and assesses risks relating to our corporate governance practices, reviews and assesses our performance, risks, controls, and procedures relating to corporate responsibility and sustainability, including ESG matters, reviews the independence of our Board of Directors, and reviews and discusses our Board of Directors’ leadership structure and role in risk oversight. The Regulatory and Compliance Committee assists the Board of Directors with oversight of our compliance with corporate legal and regulatory requirements not already overseen by our Audit Committee.

Oversight of Corporate Strategy

One of our Board of Directors’ key responsibilities is overseeing management’s formulation and execution of corporate strategy. Our Board of Directors actively oversees management’s establishment and execution of corporate strategy, including major business and organizational initiatives, annual budget and long-term strategic plans, capital allocation priorities, potential corporate development opportunities and risk management. At its regularly scheduled meetings and throughout the year, our Board of Directors receives information and formal updates from our management and actively engages with the senior leadership team with respect to our corporate strategy. Our Board of Directors’ diverse skill set and experience enhances its ability to support management in the execution and evaluation of our corporate strategy. The independent members of our Board of Directors also hold regularly scheduled executive sessions at which strategy is discussed.

#### Veracyte2025 Proxy Statement19

#### Corporate Governance
Cybersecurity Risk Oversight

The Board of Directors, in coordination with our Audit Committee, oversees our management of risks arising from cybersecurity threats. The Board of Directors and the Audit Committee each receive presentations and reports on cybersecurity risks, which address a wide range of topics including recent developments, evolving standards, vulnerability assessments, third-party and independent reviews, the threat environment, technological trends and information security considerations arising with respect to our peers and third parties. The Board of Directors and the Audit Committee also receive prompt and timely information regarding any cybersecurity incident that meets established reporting thresholds, as well as ongoing updates regarding any such incident until it has been addressed. On an annual basis, the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee discuss our approach to cybersecurity risk management with the members of management, including our Chief Information Officer.

Our Cybersecurity Executive Leadership Team is composed of the Chief Information Officer, in coordination with our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel. The team works collaboratively across Veracyte to design and implement programs to protect our