Chief Executive Officer, President and Director · Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (CADL)

Paul Peter Tak

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Paul Peter Tak as a named executive officer of Candel Therapeutics; 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

$5,344,561

1st of 3 named executive officers at Candel Therapeutics by FY2025 total.

3 named officers on file for Candel Therapeutics, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 29, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Paul Peter Tak compensation by year

Candel Therapeutics Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Candel Therapeutics reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$743,592
Bonus$0
Stock awards$0
Option awards$3,916,028
Non-equity incentive$396,653
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$288,289
Total$5,344,561

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Candel Therapeutics, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 29, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-191506, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Candel Therapeutics, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-191506. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 29, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
Option415,625—$8.55
Option20,000—$1.29
Option6,875—$4.12

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

Candel Therapeutics’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Paul Peter Tak · this pageChief Executive Officer, President and Director$5,344,561
Francesca BaroneChief Scientific Officer$1,561,536
Charles SchochChief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary$1,470,817

Board service

Candel Therapeutics board · FY2021–FY2023

How this board is paid

Company policy: Candel Therapeutics pays directors a $35,000 cash retainer. As stated in Candel Therapeutics's FY2023 proxy.

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How this record is built

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