---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001384101-24-000133"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VCYT"
cik: "0001384101"
company_name: "VERACYTE, INC."
filed_at: "2024-09-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T06:24:51.238902+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Veracyte appoints Tom Miller, Ph.D. and Brent Shafer to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Appointments effective September 3, 2024; terms until 2025 annual meeting or successor.
- Miller joins Regulatory and Compliance Committee; Shafer joins Compensation Committee.
- Both eligible for standard non-employee director compensation; no related-party transactions.
- No family relationships with existing directors or officers; standard indemnity agreements signed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001384101-24-000133
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VCYT
- cik: 0001384101
- company_name: VERACYTE, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-09-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384101/000138410124000133/0001384101-24-000133-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384101/000138410124000133/vcyt-20240903.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001384101-24-000133
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001384101-24-000133.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001384101-24-000133.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tom Miller was appointed as Director at VERACYTE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board appointed Tom Miller, Ph.D., and Brent Shafer to serve as directors of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384101/000138410124000133/0001384101-24-000133-index.htm
- Executive change
  Brent Shafer was appointed as Director at VERACYTE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board appointed Tom Miller, Ph.D., and Brent Shafer to serve as directors of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384101/000138410124000133/0001384101-24-000133-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.