Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
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Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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, Mr. Kaeser contributes the senior executive experience and skills described above. He has substantial operating experience and knowledge of numerous end markets and industries that are important to Linde’s business. Having also served as the Chief Financial Officer at Siemens, Mr. Kaeser also brings substantial financial expertise to Linde’s Board.

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Corporate Governance and Board Matters

Director Nominees

|                                          | Dr. Victoria E. Ossadnik |                                           |                         |
| Management Board Member of E.ON SE       |                          |                                           |                         |
| Age Director Since Other Public  Company 
 Directorships                            |                          | 562018E.ON SEMünchener Rückversicherungs- 
 Gesellschaft AG                           | •Linde Foreign Markets  
 •Operations             
 •International Business 
 •Technology             
 •Risk Management        
 •Public Company Board   |

Biography Dr. Victoria Ossadnik became a Member of the Board of Management and Chief Operating Officer—Digital of E.ON SE in Essen, Germany effective April 1, 2021. Prior to that, she served as Chief Executive Officer of E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH and E.ON Energie Deutschland Holding GmbH from April 2018 to April 2021. Prior to this, in 2011, she joined Microsoft Deutschland GmbH and was appointed as a member of the Board of Management from 2011 to 2016. She served as Vice President, Enterprise Services Delivery from 2016 to 2018. Dr. Ossadnik began her career with SCANLAB GmbH, Germany, in 1996. From 1999 to 2003, she served as CEO of CSC Ploenzke AG, Germany, a joint venture with Dachser. In 2003, she joined Oracle Deutschland GmbH, serving as Head of Technology Consulting (Northern Europe) and, in 2007, was appointed a member of the Board of Management. Dr. Ossadnik joined the Supervisory Board of Münchener Rückversicherungs Gesellschaft AG (Munich Re) in Munich, Germany in April 2024, and serves on the Audit Committee. She also served as a member of the Supervisory Board of Commerzbank AG until May 2021 where she served on the Committee for Digitalization and Technology. She was a member of the Supervisory Board of Linde AG from 2016 until 2019. From 2019 until 2020, she was also a member