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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 until the subsequent annual meeting of stockholders and until their successor is duly elected and has been qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, or removal.

Directors are elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. Accordingly, the nine nominees receiving the highest number of affirmative votes will be elected. Shares represented by executed proxies will be voted, if authority to do so is not withheld, for the election of the nine nominees named below. If any nominee becomes unavailable for election as a result of an unexpected occurrence, your shares will be voted for the election of a substitute nominee proposed by Appian. Each person nominated for election has agreed to serve if elected. Our management team has no reason to believe any nominee will be unable to serve.

#### DIRECTOR NOMINEES
The following is a brief biography of each nominee for director and a discussion of the specific experience, qualifications, attributes, or skills of each nominee that led our Board of Directors to recommend that person as a nominee for director, as of the date of this proxy statement.

Our Board of Directors seeks to assemble a Board that, as a whole, possesses the appropriate balance of professional and industry knowledge, financial expertise, and high-level management experience necessary to oversee and direct the Company’s business and that is committed to rigorously represent the long-term interests of the Company’s stockholders. To that end, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has identified, evaluated, and recommended nominees in the broader context of the Board’s overall composition, with the goal of recruiting members who complement and strengthen the skills of other members and who also exhibit personal integrity and ethics, collegiality, sound business judgment, and other qualities the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee views as critical to effective functioning of the Board, including gender, racial, and ethnic diversity. The brief biographies below include information, as of the date of this proxy statement, regarding the specific and particular experience, qualifications, attributes, or skills of each nominee that led the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and our Board of Directors to believe the nominee should serve on the Board. At the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Board of Directors has nominated the following nine persons to serve as directors for the term beginning at the Annual Meeting:

| Name                      |     | Age |     | Position Held with the Company                                         |
| Matthew Calkins           |     |  52 |     | Chief Executive Officer,