Chief Commercial Officer · Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (APLS)

Adam Townsend

A named executive officer of Apellis Pharmaceuticals in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2024. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2024

$3,956,053

FY2023: $3,714,246

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 23, 2025 (DEF 14A).

Adam Townsend compensation by year

Apellis Pharmaceuticals Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Apellis Pharmaceuticals reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024
Salary$460,013$484,577$542,732
Bonus$230,670$273,938$249,535
Stock awards$1,274,326$1,447,518$1,574,492
Option awards$1,120,098$1,496,291$1,577,122
Non-equity incentive$0$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$10,922$11,922$12,172
Total$3,096,029$3,714,246$3,956,053

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 23, 2025, accession 0000950170-25-056966, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$3.1M
$3.7M
$4.0M
FY22
FY23
FY24
SalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU23,748$757,799—
RSU20,616$657,857—
RSU17,969$573,391—
RSU1,875$59,831—
Option938—$44.90
Option13,808—$35.46
Option22,492—$52.66
Option34,533—$66.30

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s FY2024 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Apellis Pharmaceuticals’s named executive officers, FY2024

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2024 total
Cedric FrancoisPresident & Chief Executive Officer$10,957,451
Caroline BaumalChief Medical Officer$4,407,128
Adam Townsend · this pageChief Commercial Officer$3,956,053
Timothy SullivanChief Financial Officer$3,949,075
David WatsonGeneral Counsel$3,891,721

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