Company: ABM
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-020776
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Company: ABM INDUSTRIES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
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2019 and as executive chairman from 2019 until his retirement in 2020. Previously, Mr. Kesavan served as the president of ICF Consulting Group, a subsidiary of ICF Kaiser, from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Kesavan serves on the boards of Cadmus Group and Dexis, serves as board member emeritus for Northern Virginia Technology Council and serves as a trustee of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, DC. Mr. Kesavan’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his leadership and operational experience gained from serving as a chief executive officer and director of another public company similar to ABM. Mr. Kesavan brings valuable experience leading both organic growth and acquisition activities, a thorough understanding of corporate governance, compensation expertise, and operations, industry, public company board, financial, mergers and acquisitions, government and government relations, and global operations experience to our Board. |                  |                     |        |

|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Scott Salmirs | Director Since 2015 | Age 62 |
| Mr. Salmirs is president and chief executive officer of the Company, a position he has held since 2015. Previously, he served as executive vice president of the Company from 2014 to 2015, with global responsibility for the Company’s aviation division and all international activities. Mr. Salmirs served as executive vice president of ABM Janitorial Services – Northeast from 2003 to 2014. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Salmirs held various leadership positions at Goldman, Sachs & Company (NYSE: GS), Lehman Brothers, Inc., and CBRE Group (NYSE: CBRE). Mr. Salmirs has served as a director of ICF International (NASDAQ: ICFI) since 2021, where he serves on the Governance and Nominating Committee and the Human Capital Committee. He also serves on the board of Outreach, a New York nonprofit organization dedicated to rehabilitating teens with substance abuse issues, is a founding board member of Donate Eight, a nonprofit group associated with LiveOnNY, and also serves on the Business Advisory Council for the business program at SUNY Oneonta.Mr. Salmirs’ qualifications to serve on our Board include his experience in the facility services industry, and his knowledge of and perspective on the Company as its president and chief executive officer. Mr. Salmirs brings valuable leadership skills and operations, financial management, industry, mergers and acquisitions,