Company: JOUT
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-000715
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Company: JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 28
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 of the date of this Proxy Statement about each of the Company’s current executive officers who are not nominees for election to the Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting. The information presented includes information each executive officer has given the Company about his or her age and his or her principal occupation and business experience for the past five years:

| Name             |     | Age |     | Current Position                                                               |     | Other Positions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| David W. Johnson |     |  61 |     | Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company since November 2005. |     | From July 2005 to November 2005, Mr. Johnson served as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. From December 2001 to July 2005, he served as Director of Operations Analysis of the Company. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Johnson was employed by Procter & Gamble in a series of finance positions with increasing responsibility. In July 2016, Mr. Johnson was appointed to the Board of Directors of Twin Disc, Inc. and currently serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Nomination and Governance Committee. |

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION Compensation Discussion and Analysis (“CD&A”) Overview This CD&A addresses the Company’s compensation philosophy and objectives, describes the elements of our executive compensation programs, and explains how the Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors (the “Compensation Committee”) arrived at its compensation decisions for our fiscal 2024 named executive officers (“NEOs”) each of whom are listed below:

| • | Helen P. Johnson-Leipold, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”); and |

| • | David W. Johnson, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). |

The compensation of these individuals is presented in the tables and other quantitative information that follows this section. Our Compensation Philosophy & Objectives Overview. Johnson Outdoors believes it is important to provide a compensation package that is competitive, promotes increased shareholder value and contains performance-based features that are aligned with strategic objectives for the organization. The objectives of the Compensation Committee in establishing compensation arrangements for the Company’s NEOs are to:

| • | Provide a market competitive target total compensation opportunity that is straightforward and understandable to all stakeholders; |

| • | Through incentive compensation programs, provide for actual pay that is commensurate with performance (i.e., “pay for performance”), with meaningful upside and downside opportunities, balanced between short