Company: APPN
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001441683-25-000031
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Company: APPIAN CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
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 Policy, our Compensation Committee will, to the extent permitted by law, recoup any incentive compensation (cash and equity) received by the Company’s executive officers in the event of a restatement of financial-based measures (regardless of whether detrimental conduct has occurred). In the case of a restatement of financial-based measures, the Board will reasonably promptly recover the amount by which the incentive compensation received exceeds the amount that would have been received if the error had not been made within the three years preceding the date on which the Board determines the financial measure contains a material error.

Insider Trading Policy

We maintain an insider trading policy that prohibits employees, directors, and consultants from engaging in short sales, transactions in put or call options, hedging transactions, margin accounts, or other inherently speculative transactions with respect to our stock. We do not have any stock ownership requirements in place for our NEOs or prohibitions on pledging our stock.

Equity Grant Practices

We generally grant RSUs to newly hired employees shortly after the employee’s start date and on an annual basis, in each case subject to prior approval of the Compensation Committee. All employees are eligible for merit-based equity grants periodically throughout the year, subject to the approval of the Compensation Committee. We do not time the granting of equity awards to coordinate with the release of material non-public information.

#### Compensation Risk Assessment
As part of its review of the compensation paid to our employees, including our NEOs, the Compensation Committee considers any risks arising from the design and elements of our compensation policies and practices. We have determined that the mix and design of the elements of executive compensation do not encourage management to assume excessive risks, and any potential risks are not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on our Company as a whole.

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#### SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
The following table shows, for fiscal years 2024, 2023, and 2022, compensation awarded to, paid to, or earned by the Company’s Named Executive Officers as of December 31, 2024, in accordance with SEC rules. All amounts are presented in whole dollars.

| Name and Principal Position     |     |      |     | Year |     |            |           |     | Salary 
 ($)    |           |     |         |     | Bonus(9) |         |     |         |     | Stock Awards(1) 
 ($)             |         |     |            |     | Option Awards(2) 
 ($)              |   |     |           |