Former Chief Executive Officer · ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC. (ACHV)

Richard Stewart

A named executive officer of ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2017 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

$1,368,525

FY2024: $1,735,552

1st of 3 named executive officers at Achieve Life Sciences by FY2025 total.

3 named officers on file for ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed June 8, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Richard Stewart compensation by year

ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES Summary Compensation Table · all 9 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$208,333$500,000$500,000$473,846$400,000$400,000$450,000$509,879$615,000
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$0$0$0$0$130,900$371,700$367,500$637,000$522,900
Option awards$0$317,625$109,144$333,029$540,235$322,803$319,655$206,420$0
Non-equity incentive$0$272,640$187,500$225,630$260,000$175,000$213,750$382,253$230,625
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Total$208,333$1,090,265$796,644$1,032,505$1,331,135$1,269,503$1,350,905$1,735,552$1,368,525

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC. DEF 14A filed June 8, 2026, accession 0000949858-26-000006, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC. filed document, accession 0000949858-26-000006. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed June 8, 2026.

$208K
$1.1M
$797K
$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$1.4M
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awards

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU75,000$372,750—
Option2,083—$4.90
Option21,667—$4.55

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

ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Richard Stewart · this pageFormer Chief Executive Officer$1,368,525
Erik AtkissonChief Legal Officer$983,403
Jaime XinosFormer Chief Commercial Officer$944,601

Board service

ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES board · FY2021–FY2025

How this board is paid

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

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