Company: KRO
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001257640-25-000009
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Company: KRONOS WORLDWIDE INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 experience with our business. He also has senior executive, operating, corporate governance, finance, financial accounting and auditing experience with us, from one of the largest independent international public accounting firms, and from other publicly and privately held entities related to us for which he currently serves or formerly served.

Dr. R. Gerald Turner, age 79, has served on our board of directors since 2003. He has served since 1995 as president of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He held previous executive and administrative positions at the University of Mississippi, the University of Oklahoma and Pepperdine University. He served from 2001 to 2020 as a trustee of the American Beacon Funds and American Beacon Select Funds, each a registered management investment company. He served on the board of directors of J.C. Penney Company from 1995 to 2019. Dr. Turner is a member of our audit committee and chairman of our management development and compensation committee.

Dr. Turner has over 21 years of experience on our board of directors, audit committee and management development and compensation committee. He also has senior executive, operating, corporate governance, finance and financial accounting oversight experience from a large, non-profit, private educational institution for which he currently serves and from other publicly held entities for which he currently serves or formerly served.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Set forth below is certain information relating to our executive officers. Each executive officer serves at the pleasure of the board of directors. Biographical information with respect to Michael S. Simmons and James M. Buch is set forth under the Nominees for Director subsection above.

| ​                   | ​ |   ​ | ​ | ​                                                                    |
| Name                | ​ | Age | ​ | Position(s)                                                          |
| Michael S. Simmons  |   |  53 | ​ | Vice Chairman of the Board                                           |
| James M. Buch       |   |  64 | ​ | President and Chief Executive Officer                                |
| Brian W. Christian  |   |  46 | ​ | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer                 |
| Benjamin R. Corona  |   |  64 | ​ | President, Americas                                                  |
| Dennis Werner       |   |  41 | ​ | President, EMEAA                                                     |
| Rainer F. Gruber    |   |  57 | ​ | Executive Vice President, Chief Manufacturing and Technology Officer |
| Tim C. Hafer        |   |