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Compensation Brief
Fiscal year 2025 · Filings through 2026-06-18

Starling Oncology (STLN)

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.

$1,934,930
Daniel Virnich total, FY2025
CEO pay percentile vs peers
591:1
CEO-to-median pay ratio
98.89%
Say-on-pay support, latest vote
Companies that benchmark against STLN
No companies currently name STLN 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
Daniel Virnich$475,000$212,729$1,235,001$0$0$0$12,200$1,934,930
Chief Executive Officer
Yale Podnos447,000137,625179,08000012,200775,905
Chief Medical Officer
Robert Carter390,000106,930225,00000012,200734,130
Chief Financial 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
Daniel Virnich$1,934,930
Yale Podnos775,905
Robert Carter734,130

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.

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Outstanding equity awards at fiscal year-end 2025

ExecutiveAwardShares unvestedExercise priceMarket value unvested
Robert CarterRSU197,368$702,630
Daniel VirnichRSU1,083,3343,856,669
Daniel VirnichRSU143,680682,000
Daniel VirnichRSU148,888706,721
Yale PodnosRSU157,088559,233
Daniel VirnichRSU57,472409,201
Yale PodnosRSU41,523147,822
Yale PodnosRSU16,61059,132
Robert CarterRSU15,95156,785
Daniel VirnichRSU10,02647,590
Yale PodnosRSU13,14846,807
Robert CarterRSU11,68741,606
Robert CarterRSU6,38122,716
Yale PodnosRSU4,24115,098
Yale PodnosRSU3,54112,606
Robert CarterRSU5812,068
Robert CarterRSU3331,185
Daniel VirnichOption50,8861.87
Yale PodnosOption21,5247.09
Daniel VirnichOption372,2202
Yale PodnosOption17,9741.87
Yale PodnosOption32,8692
Robert CarterOption1,6871.87
Robert CarterOption2,9477.09
Robert CarterOption29,2172
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Incentive-plan design — the Compensation Discussion & Analysis

Compensation of named executive officers is designed to enable the Company to attract and retain talented and experienced executives to lead it successfully in a competitive environment, aligning executive interests with stockholders.

CEO STI target (% of salary)
CEO LTI target (% of salary)
Independent consultant
Clawback policy
Anti-hedging
Anti-pledging
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Say-on-pay — recent advisory votes

Meeting yearMeeting dateForAgainstAbstainSupportOutcome
20262026-06-1725,280,934282,65512,12698.89%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
20262026-06-1798.89%a

a. 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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CEO pay ratio

Ratio (CEO : median employee)591 : 1
CEO total compensation$1,934,930
Median employee compensation
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Board fee structure and ownership guideline

Annual cash retainer$75,000
Annual equity retainer$125,000
Per board meeting fee
Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov)30,000 / 20,000 / 20,000
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
1Starling Oncology2025Daniel Virnich$475,000$1,235,001$0$0$1,934,930

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, Daniel VirnichDEF 14A2026-04-300001193125-26-197350Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 1,934,930. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c30 · span 256987–256996
2Section 01, Yale PodnosDEF 14A2026-04-300001193125-26-197350Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 775,905. Filing ↗machine: r4 · c30 · span 261505–261512
3Section 01, Robert CarterDEF 14A2026-04-300001193125-26-197350Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 734,130. Filing ↗machine: r6 · c30 · span 266022–266029
4Section 07, pay ratioDEF 14A2026-04-300001193125-26-197350Section “CEO Pay Ratio”. As printed: 591 : 1. Filing ↗
5Section 06, 2026 voteForm 8-K2026-06-180001553350-26-000093Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 98.89% (votes for as printed: 25,280,934). Filing ↗
6Starling Oncology (subject), Section 10b CEO totalDEF 14A2026-04-300001193125-26-197350CEO total compensation as printed in Starling Oncology's own proxy. As printed: 1,934,930. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c30 · span 256987–256996