Chief Legal Officer · AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (AGIO)

James Burns

A named executive officer of AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2025. 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

$2,369,416

FY2024: $2,432,507

4th of 5 named executive officers at Agios Pharmaceuticals by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 24, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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James Burns compensation by year

AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$460,000$497,007$511,917$527,275
Bonus$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$370,300$300,120$548,590$786,898
Option awards$707,400$614,478$1,068,185$802,008
Non-equity incentive$186,300$507,838$287,954$237,274
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0
All other$14,025$15,097$15,861$15,961
Total$1,738,025$1,934,540$2,432,507$2,369,416

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. DEF 14A filed April 24, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-177086, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-177086. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 24, 2026.

$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.4M
$2.4M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU23,759$646,720—
RSU11,333$308,484—
RSU4,000$108,880—
Option33,750—$32.27
Option13,755—$25.01
Option2,565—$32.20
Option43,500—$33.12

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Disability$0$0$0$0
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$527,275$0$34,508$799,057
Change in control and involuntary termination$527,275$1,094,483$34,508$1,893,540
Death$0$0$0$0
Change in control, no termination$0$0$0$0

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

AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Brian GoffChief Executive Officer$5,370,389
Krishnan ViswanadhanChief Corporate Development & Strategy Officer$2,805,026
Cecilia JonesChief Financial Officer$2,518,222
James Burns · this pageChief Legal Officer$2,369,416
Sarah GheuensChief Medical Officer, Head of Research & Development$2,086,680

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