Company: AOS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-037641
Chunk: 10

Company: SMITH A O CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 10
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| Mark D. Smith Retired Business Manager Strattec Security Corporation                          |     |     |     | 63 |     |                |     | 2001 |     |                   |     | Class A |     |             |     | ✓          |     |       |     |       |     |               |     | ·     |     |                                 |     | ·     |
| Kevin J. Wheeler Chairman and Chief Executive Officer A. O. Smith Corporation                 |     |     |     | 65 |     |                |     | 2017 |     |                   |     | Class A |     |             |     |            |     |       |     |       |     |               |     |       |     |                                 |     |       |

| 1 | Presiding Director for the period from April 2024 to April 2026. |

| 2 | Starting after the Annual Meeting assuming his election at the Annual Meeting. |

2025 Proxy Statement 5

Election of Directors

The Board of Directors currently consists of ten directors. At the 2025 Annual Meeting, ten directors are to be elected to serve until the next succeeding Annual Meeting of Stockholders and thereafter until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. Owners of Common Stock are entitled to elect four directors, and owners of Class A Common Stock are entitled to elect the six remaining directors. It is intended that proxies we are soliciting will be voted for the election of the nominees named below. Proxies will not be voted for a greater number of persons than the ten nominees named below. All nominees have consented to being named in this Proxy Statement and to serve if elected. If any nominee for election as a director shall become unavailable to serve as a director, then proxies will be voted for such substitute nominee as the Board of Directors may nominate. The Board of Directors has nominated Mr. Adrian I. Peace, who has not previously served as a director on our Board, for election at the Annual Meeting as a Common Stock director. Mr. Rajendra, who is currently a director, has reached the mandatory director retirement age under our Corporate Governance Guidelines and, therefore, will not be nominated for re-electionat the Annual Meeting and is retiring as a result. Our company and the Board would like to thank Mr. Rajendra for his many contributions during his 20 years with the company beginning with his leadership