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Vaxcyte boosts severance multipliers for CEO Pickering and three other execs effective Dec 31, 2025
Vaxcyte, Inc.
- CEO Pickering: base salary severance multiplier for Qualifying Termination increases to 1.5x (from 1.0x); CIC termination to 2.0x (from 1.5x).
- CFO Guggenhime, COO Wassil, CTOO Dhaliwal: non-CIC multiplier rises to 1.0x (from 0.75x/0.5x); CIC to 1.5x (from 1.0x/0.75x).
- COBRA severance multipliers increased proportionally across all four executives.
- Changes effective Dec 31, 2025, approved by Compensation Committee to align with peer group levels.