Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of Board of Directors · Zymeworks Inc. (ZYME)

Kenneth Galbraith

A named executive officer of Zymeworks in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2024. 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, FY2024

$5,253,616

FY2023: $3,374,876

1st of 3 named executive officers at Zymeworks by FY2024 total.

3 named officers on file for Zymeworks, FY2024

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The filing gives the total. Zymeworks’s full Executive Compensation Report gives every award, the disclosed peer set and what the total leaves out — the pair adds the board’s.

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed January 1, 1900 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-06.

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Kenneth Galbraith compensation by year

Zymeworks Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Zymeworks reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$582,481$625,452$654,833$656,763
Bonus$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$879,000$1,144,000$2,112,000$2,538,240
Option awards$5,044,999$1,194,627$1,985,672$2,366,565
Non-equity incentive$537,728$321,651$361,652$340,990
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0
All other$81,249$89,146$139,459$710,622
Total$7,125,457$3,374,876$5,253,616$6,613,180

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Zymeworks Inc. DEF 14A filed January 1, 1900, accession 0001193125-25-274338, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Zymeworks Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-25-274338. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed January 1, 1900.

$7.1M
$3.4M
$5.3M
$6.6M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU192,000$5,055,360—
RSU133,334$3,510,684—
RSU47,668$1,255,098—
Option288,000—$13.22
Option150,000—$10.56
Option53,750—$8.00

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

23 Form 4 lines since the FY2024 proxy (filed January 1, 1900)
current to 2026-11-06 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-01-12Grant or award derivative—216,000$0.00216,000
2026-01-12Grant or award derivative—144,000$0.00144,000
2026-01-12Exercise or conversion—64,000$0.00257,266
2026-01-12Exercise or conversion derivative—64,000$0.00128,000
2026-01-12Sale—30,424$22.67226,842
2026-01-12Grant or award derivative—222,000$0.00222,000
2026-01-05Exercise or conversion derivative—47,668$0.000
2026-01-05Exercise or conversion—66,666$0.00224,952

The 8 most recent of 23 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Zymeworks discloses, by trigger · FY2024
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and resignation for good reason—$1,464,000——
Involuntary termination without cause$655,000$1,464,000——
Disability—$5,787,690——
Death—$5,787,690——
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,375,500$7,725,490——

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Zymeworks Inc.'s FY2024 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Zymeworks’s named executive officers, FY2024

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2024 total
Kenneth Galbraith · this pageChief Executive Officer, President and Chair of Board of Directors$5,253,616
Leone PattersonExecutive Vice President, Chief Business Officer and Chief Financial Officer$2,907,982
CSO Paul A. MooreChief Scientific Officer$1,986,803

Board service

Zymeworks board · FY2021–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Zymeworks pays directors a $40,000 cash retainer. As stated in Zymeworks's FY2025 proxy.

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