Chief Financial Officer · Vericel Corp (VCEL)

Joe Mara

A named executive officer of Vericel 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

$3,242,362

FY2024: $2,974,002

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 19, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Joe Mara compensation by year

Vericel Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Vericel reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$475,000$505,000$525,000
Bonus——$0
Stock awards$551,670$893,735$1,004,735
Option awards$845,481$1,306,101$1,382,758
Non-equity incentive$261,300$255,000$315,000
Pension and deferred compensation——$0
All other$14,314$14,166$14,869
Total$2,147,765$2,974,002$3,242,362

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Vericel Corp DEF 14A filed March 19, 2026, accession 0001308179-26-000094, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$2.1M
$3.0M
$3.2M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU18,500$666,185—
RSU13,875$499,639—
RSU9,250$333,093—
RSU2,755$99,208—
Option14,454—$29.82
Option4,017—$34.90
Option26,016—$48.31
Option37,579—$54.31

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Vericel discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,155,000$1,692,054$36,770$2,883,824
Death$0$1,692,054$0$1,692,054
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$525,000$0$36,770$561,770

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

Vericel’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Dominick ColangeloPresident and Chief Executive Officer$11,156,368
Michael HalpinChief Operating Officer$3,623,996
Joe Mara · this pageChief Financial Officer$3,242,362
Jonathan HopperChief Medical Officer$2,562,636
Sean FlynnChief Legal Officer$2,547,420

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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 Vericel'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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