Chief Operating Officer · Vera Therapeutics, Inc. (VERA)

David Johnson

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for David Johnson as a named executive officer of Vera Therapeutics; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,721,412

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Vera Therapeutics by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for Vera Therapeutics, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 9, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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David Johnson compensation by year

Vera Therapeutics Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Vera Therapeutics reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$510,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$784,942
Option awards$1,137,870
Non-equity incentive$285,600
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$3,000
Total$2,721,412

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Vera Therapeutics, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 9, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-014002, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the Vera Therapeutics, Inc. filed document, accession 0001140361-26-014002. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 9, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU26,900$1,362,216—
Option42,592—$29.18
Option103,334—$36.29

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Vera Therapeutics, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Vera Therapeutics discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$382,500$0$41,327$423,827
Change in control and involuntary termination$714,000$3,759,083$55,103$4,528,186

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Vera Therapeutics, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Vera Therapeutics’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Marshall FordycePresident and Chief Executive Officer$6,986,410
David Johnson · this pageChief Operating Officer$2,721,412
Robert BrennerChief Medical Officer$2,719,852
Sean GrantChief Financial Officer$2,716,732
William TurnerChief Regulatory Officer$2,346,180

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Vera Therapeutics's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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