Company: JBI
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-015724
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Company: Janus International Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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 contracting, serving in leadership roles as President, GM, and COO. Ms. Youds has extensive expertise in process and productivity improvement, technology, manufacturing, engineering, and education. Ms. Youds also serves on the boards of a range of corporate, educational and civic organizations, including the University of Northern Iowa and the University of St. Thomas. She has over 30 years of senior leadership and technology experience and has held positions of increasing responsibility in multi-billion dollar companies, including Pearson Vue and Honeywell. Ms. Youds holds a MEP (Management Executive Program) from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, a M.A. in Mathematics/Computer Science and a B.A. in Chemistry/Mathematics from the University of Northern Iowa. We determined that Ms. Youds’s extensive business experience, including with respect to information technology and cybersecurity and her service on other boards of directors qualifies her to serve as a director on the Board of Directors. Independence Status Providing objective, independent judgment is at the core of the Board’s oversight function. Director independence is determined in accordance with the listing standards of the various securities exchanges as well as by the rules and regulations of the SEC. Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that a significant majority of the Board and all of the members of the Audit and Compensation Committees must be independent from management and must meet all of the applicable criteria for independence established by NYSE and the 14

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SEC. Our Board makes an annual determination of the independence of each director. No director may be deemed independent unless the Board determines that neither the director nor any of the director’s immediate family members has a material relationship with Janus, directly or as an officer, shareholder or partner of an organization that has a material relationship with Janus. Our Board has determined that all of our non-employee directors meet the requirements to be independent directors under NYSE listing standards. In making these determinations, our Board considered the current and prior relationships that each non-employee director has with the Company and all other facts and circumstances that our Board deemed relevant in determining independence, including beneficial ownership of our common stock, and the transactions involving them described in the section entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.” In addition, our Board has determined that each member of our Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee are independent and that Audit Committee members as well as Compensation Committee members satisfy independence criteria set forth in Rule 10A-3 and Rule 10C-1, respectively, under the Securities Exchange Act