---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-184871"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZYME"
cik: "0001937653"
company_name: "Zymeworks Inc."
filed_at: "2024-07-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T16:23:25.146589+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Zymeworks appoints Leone Patterson as EVP, Chief Business & CFO effective Sept 1, 2024

## Summary
- Ms. Patterson appointed EVP, Chief Business Officer and CFO; start date Sept 1, 2024.
- Kenneth Galbraith to step down as interim CFO but remain Chair and CEO.
- Compensation: $485K base salary, 45% bonus target, $50K signing bonus, 360,000 inducement stock options.
- Amended Inducement Plan increases share reserve by 700,000 shares to 1,450,000 total since plan inception.
- Ms. Patterson brings over 20 years biotech CFO/CEO experience from Tenaya, Adverum, etc.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-184871
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZYME
- cik: 0001937653
- company_name: Zymeworks Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-07-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1937653/000119312524184871/0001193125-24-184871-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1937653/000119312524184871/d810428d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-184871
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-184871.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Leone Patterson was appointed as Executive Vice President, Chief Business Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Zymeworks Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Business Officer and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On July 19, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Zymeworks Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Ms. Leone Patterson, age 61, as Executive Vice President, Chief Business Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective upon her commencement of employment with the Company, which is anticipated to be September 1, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1937653/000119312524184871/0001193125-24-184871-index.htm

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