Chief Financial Officer · Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (VKTX)

Greg Zante

A named executive officer of Viking Therapeutics in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$5,135,872

FY2024: $4,681,394

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 1, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Greg Zante compensation by year

Viking Therapeutics Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Viking Therapeutics reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$455,000$475,000$521,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,581,883$1,971,994$3,225,328
Option awards$1,259,074$1,996,400$1,172,544
Non-equity incentive$200,000$238,000$217,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$0$0$0
Total$3,495,957$4,681,394$5,135,872

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Viking Therapeutics, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 1, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-137915, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$3.5M
$4.7M
$5.1M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awards

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU63,333$2,228,055—
PSU46,667$1,641,745—
PSU44,533$1,566,671—
PSU43,333$1,524,455—
PSU30,223$1,063,245—
PSU28,333$996,755—
PSU11,883$418,044—
Option116,250—$17.40
Option37,200—$42.89
Option102,000—$8.52
Option30,000—$4.88

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Viking Therapeutics discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Non renewal$188,863$0$13,271$202,134
Change in control, no termination$0—$0$2,957,635
Change in control and involuntary termination$755,450$0$53,086$808,536

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

Viking Therapeutics’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Brian LianChief Executive Officer$21,269,833
Marianne ManciniChief Operating Officer$5,162,872
Greg Zante · this pageChief Financial Officer$5,135,872

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