President · Caris Life Sciences, Inc. (CAI)

David Spetzler

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for David Spetzler as a named executive officer of Caris Life Sciences; 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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$11,583,227

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 23, 2026 (DEF 14A).

David Spetzler compensation by year

Caris Life Sciences Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Caris Life Sciences reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$611,934
Bonus$703,725
Stock awards$2,780,988
Option awards$7,472,580
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$14,000
Total$11,583,227

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Caris Life Sciences, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 23, 2026, accession 0002019410-26-000032, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU132,428$3,572,907—
RSU9,897$267,021—
Option150,000—$18.60

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

Caris Life Sciences’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
David Dean HalbertFounder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer$20,350,571
David Spetzler · this pagePresident$11,583,227
J. Russel DentonSenior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary$5,354,614

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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 Caris Life Sciences'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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