Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Head of Emerging Areas · Wave Life Sciences, Inc. (WVE)

Christopher Francis

A named executive officer of Wave Life Sciences 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

$1,566,422

FY2023: $1,527,469

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

Christopher Francis compensation by year

Wave Life Sciences Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Wave Life Sciences reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024
Salary$407,800$425,500$438,300
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$0$0$0
Option awards$391,305$871,059$870,312
Non-equity incentive$211,000$220,200$246,550
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$540$10,710$11,260
Total$1,010,645$1,527,469$1,566,422

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Wave Life Sciences, Inc. DEF 14A filed June 23, 2025, accession 0001193125-25-144678, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$1.0M
$1.5M
$1.6M
FY22
FY23
FY24
SalaryNon-equity incentiveOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU32,500$402,025—
Option286,400—$3.87
Option46,875—$3.14
Option137,644—$4.75

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

Wave Life Sciences’s named executive officers, FY2024

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2024 total
Paul BolnoPresident and Chief Executive Officer$4,272,299
Kyle MoranChief Financial Officer$1,917,381
Chandra VargeeseChief Technology Officer, Head of Platform Discovery Sciences$1,888,563
Christopher Francis · this pageSenior Vice President, Corporate Development and Head of Emerging Areas$1,566,422

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