Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary · Zentalis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ZNTL)

James Bucher

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for James Bucher as a named executive officer of Zentalis Pharmaceuticals; 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

$659,973

5th of 5 named executive officers at Zentalis Pharmaceuticals by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 30, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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James Bucher compensation by year

Zentalis Pharmaceuticals Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Zentalis Pharmaceuticals reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$144,231
Bonus$50,000
Stock awards$0
Option awards$391,752
Non-equity incentive$67,315
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$6,675
Total$659,973

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Zentalis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 30, 2026, accession 0001725160-26-000027, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Zentalis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. filed document, accession 0001725160-26-000027. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 30, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
Option400,000—$1.54

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Zentalis Pharmaceuticals discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and resignation for good reason$500,000$0——
Involuntary termination without cause$500,000$0——
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$500,000$0——
Change in control and involuntary termination$500,000$0——

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

Zentalis Pharmaceuticals’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Andrea PaulFormer Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary$2,988,669
Julie EastlandPresident and Chief Executive Officer$1,300,731
Mark LacknerFormer Chief Scientific Officer$1,229,349
Ingmar BrunsChief Medical Officer$869,843
James Bucher · this pageChief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary$659,973

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