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
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Our bylaws provide that the board of directors shall consist of one or more members as determined by our board of directors or stockholders. Our board of directors has currently set the number of directors at eight and recommends the eight director nominees named in this proxy statement for election at our 2025 annual stockholder meeting. The directors elected at the meeting will hold office until our 2026 annual stockholder meeting and until their successors are duly elected and qualified or their earlier removal or resignation.

All of the nominees are currently members of our board of directors whose terms will expire at the 2025 annual meeting. All of the nominees have agreed to serve if elected. If any nominee is unable to serve or for good cause will not serve as a director at the time of the annual meeting, the proxy holders may vote your shares for any alternate nominee selected by the board of directors, unless you withhold authority to vote for such unavailable nominee. The board of directors believes that all of its nominees will be available for election at the meeting and will serve if elected.

OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING NOMINEES FOR DIRECTOR.

Nominees for Director. All of our nominees have extensive senior management and policy-making experience or significant accounting experience. Each of the nominees is knowledgeable about our business. Each of our independent directors is financially literate. The board of directorsconsidered each nominee’s specific business experiences described in the biographical information provided below in determining whether to nominate him or her for election as a director.

James M. Buch, age 64, has served on our board of directors and as our chief executive officer since 2022 and as our president since 2021. He previously served as our chief operating officer from 2015 to 2022 andas our chief operating officer, global commercial from 2014 to 2015. He currently serves as senior vice president of Contran.Previously, he served Titanium Metals Corporation as its vice president from 2001 to 2011 and as its executive vice president, commercial from 2011 to 2013.

Mr. Buch has extensive experience with our business, during which he developed general management, senior executive, corporate governance, finance and financial accounting oversight experience.

Loretta J. Feehan,age 69, has served as chair of the board (non-executive) of us, CompX, NL and Valhi since 2017 and as a director of each such company since 2014