Company: RNAC
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001453687-25-000075
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Company: Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 on the same basis as all of our full-time employees. These benefits include health, dental and vision benefits, health and dependent care flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and basic life insurance coverage. We also provide a flexible vacation policy, including unlimited paid time off and other paid holidays to all employees, including our executive officers. We do not offer our employees a non-qualified deferred compensation plan or pension plan.

We design our employee benefits programs to be affordable and competitive in relation to the market, as well as compliant with applicable laws and practices. We adjust our employee benefits programs as needed based upon regular monitoring of applicable laws and practices, the competitive market and our employees' needs.

#### Perquisites and Other Personal Benefits
Currently, we do not view perquisites or other personal benefits as a significant component of our executive compensation program. Accordingly, we do not provide perquisites to our executive officers, except in situations where we believe it is appropriate to assist an individual in the performance of his or her duties, to make our executive officers more efficient and effective, and for recruitment and retention purposes. During 2024, none of the Named Executive Officers received perquisites or other personal benefits that were, in the aggregate, $10,000 or more for each Named Executive Officer.

In the future, we may provide perquisites or other personal benefits to our executive officers in limited circumstances, such as where we believe it is appropriate to assist an individual executive officer in the performance of his or her duties, to make our executive officers more efficient and effective, and for recruitment, motivation or retention purposes. We do not expect that these perquisites or other personal benefits will be a significant aspect of our executive compensation program. All future practices with respect to perquisites or other personal benefits will be subject to periodic review by the Compensation Committee.

#### Employment Agreements
During the period of their service with our Company, and in the cases of Dr. Jewell and Dr. Kurtoglu, since March 26, 2024 and March 28, 2024, respectively, we had employment agreements in place with each of our executive officers, including our CEO and our other Named Executive Officers to whom we have extended a written offer letter. Each of these arrangements was approved on our behalf by our Board or the Compensation Committee, as applicable, or by the CEO, subject to his authority as granted by the Board. We believe that these arrangements were appropriate to induce these individuals to forego other employment opportunities or