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Compensation Brief
Fiscal year 2025 · Filings through 2026-07-06

Achieve Life Sciences (ACHV)

Fiscal year 2025 executive and director compensation, incentive-plan design, equity activity, and governance — every figure in this brief is traceable to its exact location in the company’s SEC filing — the document, the section, the page, and the table, linked directly.

$1,368,525
Richard Stewart total, FY2025
CEO pay percentile vs peers
CEO-to-median pay ratio
98.7%
Say-on-pay support, latest vote
Companies that benchmark against ACHV
No companies currently name ACHV as a compensation peer in their most recent disclosure.

This is the complete answer, not a partial one — the list is never padded.

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Summary Compensation Table — fiscal year 2025

Named executive officerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension / NQDCAll otherTotal
Richard Stewart$615,000$0$522,900$0$230,625$0$0$1,368,525
Former Chief Executive Officer
Erik Atkisson130,2550853,1480000983,403
Chief Legal Officer
Jaime Xinos450,0000311,00048,601135,00000944,601
Former Chief Commercial Officer

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column; 0 means it reported zero. Figures are as printed in the filing, without adjustment.

Three-year trend — total compensation per named executive

Named executive officerFY2025 totalFY2024 totalFY2023 totalΔ FY20242025
Richard Stewart$1,368,525
Erik Atkisson983,403
Jaime Xinos944,601

Prior-year totals as disclosed in the corresponding proxy; deltas are computed values with the derivation shown in the register.

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Equity transactions since the proxy statement was filed

No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.

03

Grants of plan-based awards — fiscal year 2025

ExecutiveAwardGrant dateThresholdTargetGrantedMaximumGrant-date fair value
Richard StewartPSU157,500$522,900
03b

Vehicle mix — grant-date fair value by award type

Named executive officerTime-vested (RSU)Performance-vested (PSU)Options / SARs% performance-vested
Richard Stewart$0$522,900$0100.0%

% performance-vested = PSU grant-date fair value ÷ (RSU + PSU + Options), a computed value with the derivation shown in the register.

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Outstanding equity awards at fiscal year-end 2025

ExecutiveAwardShares unvestedExercise priceMarket value unvested
Jaime XinosPSU80,000$397,600
Richard StewartPSU75,000372,750
Jaime XinosPSU32,500161,525
Richard StewartOption2,0834.9
Richard StewartOption21,6674.55
Erik AtkissonOption250,0004.78
Jaime XinosOption9034.9
Jaime XinosOption7,5834.55
Jaime XinosOption22,5004.52
Jaime XinosOption15,0003.32
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Incentive-plan design — the Compensation Discussion & Analysis

The Compensation Committee has adopted a pay for performance philosophy, exercising judgment to establish a total compensation program that is a mix of current, short- and long-term incentive compensation, and cash and non-cash compensation, designed to motivate executive officers to achieve key business goals and objectives.

CEO STI target (% of salary)
CEO LTI target (% of salary)
Independent consultantAon Human Capital Solutions
Clawback policytrue
Anti-hedging
Anti-pledging
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Say-on-pay — recent advisory votes

Meeting yearMeeting dateForAgainstAbstainSupportOutcome
20262026-07-0246,351,648610,7441,346,81698.7%Passed
20232023-06-078,705,275554,973182,51894.01%Passed
20202020-05-125,795,0682,205,275163,27572.44%Passed
20172017-10-268,378,32919,9057,15599.76%Passed

Rows are labeled by annual-meeting year, with the meeting date beside each; the vote held in a given year acts on the prior fiscal year's compensation.

Say-on-pay — history, company's computation

Meeting yearMeeting dateApproval — company's computation
20262026-07-0298.7%a
20232023-06-0794.01%b
20202020-05-1272.44%c

a. Voting standard not stated in the filing.

b. Voting standard not stated in the filing.

c. Voting standard not stated in the filing.

Approval percentages are the company's own reported computations under its own stated standard, not recomputed by Velarion. Where a company does not state a standard, none is assumed.

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Board fee structure and ownership guideline

Annual cash retainer$40,000
Annual equity retainer
Per board meeting fee
Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov)15,000 / 10,000 / 7,500
Stock ownership guideline
10b

Chief executive pay against the peer group

Most recent fiscal-year chief executive compensation at each disclosed peer, taken from that company's own proxy statement.

RankCompanyFYChief executiveSalaryStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentiveTotal
1Achieve Life Sciences2025Richard Stewart$615,000$522,900$0$230,625$1,368,525

Each peer's compensation is from its most recently filed proxy; fiscal years differ by company. Each peer's figures come from its own filings; the subject company is highlighted. Peers whose chief executive compensation is outside our coverage universe are stated as such, never left blank.

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Source register

Each figure's location is given both for the eye (section · page · table · row · column) and for a script (table/row/column index and exact character span in the filed document). Any figure can be independently confirmed against the source.

#SupportsDocumentFiledAccessionLocation in document
1Section 01, Richard StewartDEF 14A2026-06-080000949858-26-000006Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 1,368,525. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c24 · span 491833–491842
2Section 01, Erik AtkissonDEF 14A2026-06-080000949858-26-000006Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 983,403. Filing ↗machine: r4 · c23 · span 509747–509754
3Section 01, Jaime XinosDEF 14A2026-06-080000949858-26-000006Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 944,601. Filing ↗machine: r6 · c24 · span 528030–528037
4Section 03, Richard Stewart PSUDEF 14A2026-06-080000949858-26-000006Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗
5Section 06, 2026 voteForm 8-K2026-07-060001193125-26-296174Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 98.7% (votes for as printed: 46,351,648). Filing ↗
6Section 06, 2023 voteForm 8-K2023-06-090001193125-23-164423Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 94.01% (votes for as printed: 8,705,275). Filing ↗
7Section 06, 2020 voteForm 8-K2020-05-140001564590-20-025268Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 72.44% (votes for as printed: 5,795,068). Filing ↗
8Section 03b vehicle mix (computed)ComputedcomputedRSU / PSU / Options grant-date fair values summed per officer from the grants table; % performance-vested = PSU ÷ (RSU+PSU+Options).machine: formula: sums + PSU ratio
9Achieve Life Sciences (subject), Section 10b CEO totalDEF 14A2026-06-080000949858-26-000006CEO total compensation as printed in Achieve Life Sciences's own proxy. As printed: 1,368,525. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c24 · span 491833–491842