Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer · CYTOKINETICS INC (CYTK)

Jeffrey Hessekiel

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Jeffrey Hessekiel as a named executive officer of CYTOKINETICS; 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

$6,086,217

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 17, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Jeffrey Hessekiel compensation by year

CYTOKINETICS Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as CYTOKINETICS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$85,250
Bonus$200,000
Stock awards$5,800,013
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$954
Total$6,086,217

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: CYTOKINETICS INC DEF 14A filed April 17, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-015364, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU87,297$5,546,851—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments CYTOKINETICS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and resignation for good reason$990,000$5,546,851$87,116$6,629,073

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

CYTOKINETICS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Robert BlumPresident and Chief Executive Officer$11,881,456
Jeffrey Hessekiel · this pageExecutive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer$6,086,217
Fady MalikExecutive Vice President, Research and Development$4,467,066
Andrew CallosExecutive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer$3,787,644
Sung LeeExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$3,770,807

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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 CYTOKINETICS'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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