Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary · Cytek Biosciences, Inc. (CTKB)

Valerie Barnett

A named executive officer of Cytek Biosciences 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

$2,174,943

FY2024: $2,410,489

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 28, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Valerie Barnett compensation by year

Cytek Biosciences Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Cytek Biosciences reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$435,000$463,750$475,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$625,000$874,997$750,000
Option awards$625,000$874,998$750,000
Non-equity incentive$140,333$182,949$186,049
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$37,061$13,794$13,894
Total$1,862,394$2,410,489$2,174,943

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Cytek Biosciences, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 28, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-017479, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$1.9M
$2.4M
$2.2M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
Option75,000—$17.00
Option51,700—$4.31
Option47,656—$13.64
Option61,208—$10.61
Option80,591—$7.07
Option122,830—$4.71

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

12 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 28, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-05-18Tax withholding—881$3.55136,009
2026-05-18Exercise or conversion—5,156—141,165
2026-05-18Exercise or conversion—7,250—146,565
2026-05-18Tax withholding—2,602$3.55143,963
2026-05-18Exercise or conversion—9,435—153,398
2026-05-18Exercise or conversion derivative—2,454$0.0012,280
2026-05-18Exercise or conversion derivative—5,156$0.0056,728
2026-05-18Exercise or conversion derivative—9,435$0.00217,018

The 8 most recent of 12 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 Cytek Biosciences discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$356,250—$23,714$379,964
Change in control and involuntary termination$950,000$1,368,686$47,428$2,366,114

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

Cytek Biosciences’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Wenbin JiangChief Executive Officer and President$5,120,061
William McCombeChief Financial Officer$2,460,979
Valerie Barnett · this pageChief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary$2,174,943
Ming YanChief Technology Officer$1,457,420
Philippe BusqueSenior Vice President, Global Sales and Services$1,021,730

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