Chief Financial Officer · Cytek Biosciences, Inc. (CTKB)

William McCombe

A named executive officer of Cytek Biosciences in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,460,979

FY2024: $1,689,261

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

William McCombe compensation by year

Cytek Biosciences Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Cytek Biosciences reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$315,000$450,000
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$624,996$900,000
Option awards$624,998$900,000
Non-equity incentive$124,268$210,979
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$0$0
Total$1,689,261$2,460,979

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.

$1.7M
$2.5M
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awards

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
Option59,613—$6.18
Option62,040—$4.31

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

18 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 28, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-08-18Tax withholding—5,401$4.67134,693
2026-08-18Exercise or conversion derivative—16,049$0.00230,042
2026-08-18Tax withholding—4,392$4.67124,045
2026-08-18Exercise or conversion—16,049—140,094
2026-08-18Exercise or conversion derivative—13,051$0.00134,862
2026-08-18Exercise or conversion—6,320—117,497
2026-08-18Tax withholding—2,111$4.67115,386
2026-08-18Exercise or conversion—13,051—128,437

The 8 most recent of 18 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$337,500—$6,291$343,791
Change in control and involuntary termination$900,000$1,396,919$12,582$2,309,501

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 McCombe · this pageChief Financial Officer$2,460,979
Valerie BarnettChief 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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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 Cytek Biosciences'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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