Company: CMA
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000028412-25-000135
Chunk: 9

Company: COMERICA INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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. In that role, he is responsible for developing and executing the human resources and real estate strategy in support of the overall business plan and strategic direction. From June 2020 to May 2021, Mr. Gardner worked as an Advisor for Lee Hecht Harrison, a provider of outplacement and coaching services to executives. He was briefly retired from January 2020 to June 2020. Before that, Mr. Gardner spent over 30 years at Verizon Communications Inc. and its affiliates and predecessors (collectively, “Verizon”), providers of communications, technology, information and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses and government entities. At Verizon, he held various leadership positions, most recently as Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Verizon Communications Inc. from 2015 to December 2019, a role through which he led human resources centers of excellence for employees around the globe. |
|        |     | With more than 30 years as a human resources leader, Mr. Gardner has experience building high-performing work environments. His responsibilities have given him a strong understanding of how to create and incentivize dynamic, successful teams, which is very beneficial in his role as a member of the Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee. |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |

| Skills |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |     | Derek J. Kerr                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
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 Mr. Kerr served as Vice Chair and Strategic Advisor of American Airlines Group Inc. (“AAG”) and President of American Eagle, a passenger airline, from December 2022 to September 2023. He retired from AAG and American Eagle in September 2023. From 2013 to December 2022, Mr. Kerr served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AAG and its wholly-owned subsidiary, American Airlines, Inc., overseeing global corporate risk, corporate development and corporate financial functions, including treasury, accounting, financial planning, labor and fleet analysis, tax, strategic planning, investor relations and purchasing. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for US Airways, a role that he began in 2005, and was later promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of US Airways in 2009 with an added responsibility for information technology. He previously worked at America West Airlines starting