Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
Chunk: 39

Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 39
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.32 (775 shares); and December 31, 2024 — $40.86 (834 shares). The value of the stock award is prorated based upon time served as a Director in any applicable quarter.

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#### NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
Fully Vested Deferred Shares

The number of fully-vested deferred shares held in an account for each Director at the end of the 2024 fiscal year is set forth in the following table.

| Name           |     | Number of Deferred Shares(1) 
                          (#) |
| R.E. Abernathy |     |                            — |
| R.H. Fearon    |     |                            — |
| G.J. Goff      |     |                            — |
| N. Green       |     |                        6,098 |
| W.R. Jellison  |     |                       42,337 |
| S.B. Lin       |     |                       45,469 |
| K.A. Mink      |     |                       30,629 |
| E. Nicolas     |     |                       19,201 |
| K.J. Preete    |     |                       42,932 |
| P. Verduin     |     |                            — |
| W.A. Wulfsohn  |     |                       56,319 |

(1) Dividends paid on shares held in the Deferred Compensation Plan are reinvested in Avient common shares through a dividend reinvestment feature of the Deferred Compensation Plan. The number of deferred shares includes shares acquired through dividend reinvestment through 2024 (including the fourth quarter dividend declared on October 9, 2024 to shareholders of record on December 13, 2024, which was paid on January 8, 2025).

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#### OWNERSHIP OF AVIENT SHARES
Ownership of Avient Shares

Beneficial Ownership of Our Common Shares

The following table shows the number of our common shares beneficially owned as of February 28, 2025 (including shares the individuals have a right to acquire within 60 days of that date) by each of our Directors, each of the executive officers named in the 2024 Summary Compensation Table below and by all Directors and executive officers as a group.

| Name