Company: DXPE
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001020710-25-000087
Chunk: 7

Company: DXP ENTERPRISES INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 STATEMENT12
Board of Directors

Below is an overview of each of the director nominees you are being asked to elect at the 2025 Annual Meeting.

| NAME               |     | DIRECTOR SINCE |     | PRINCIPAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE                         |     | COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS |     | OTHER PUBLIC COMPANY BOARDS |
| David R. Little    |     |           1996 |     | Chairman, President and CEO, DXP                          |     | —                     |     | —                           |
| Kent Yee           |     |           2021 |     | Secretary and SVP CFO, DXP                                |     | —                     |     | —                           |
| Timothy P. Halter* |     |           2001 |     | CEO, Halter Financial Group                               |     | A, N, C, I            |     | —                           |
| David Patton*      |     |           2016 |     | Retired Partner, law firm Locke Lord                      |     | A, N, C, I            |     | —                           |
| Joseph R. Mannes*  |     |           2020 |     | President and Board member of SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc. |     | A, N, C, I            |     | —                           |
| Karen Hoffman*     |     |           2021 |     | Global Tax Director, Transocean Ltd                       |     | A, N, C, I            |     | —                           |

* * = Independent director N = Nominating and Governance Committee I = IT and Cybersecurity Committee

A = Audit Committee C = Compensation Committee

Highly-Skilled Board of Directors

The board has taken a thoughtful and deliberate approach to board composition to ensure that our directors have backgrounds that collectively add significant value to the strategic decisions made by the Company and enable them to provide oversight of management to ensure accountability to our shareholders.

The composition of our director nominees consists of:

#### DXP ENTERPRISES, INC. 2025 PROXY STATEMENT13
Board Diversity Matrix

The following chart summarizes certain self-identified personal characteristics of our directors in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5605(f). Each term used in the table has the meaning given to it in the rule and related instructions.

| Board Diversity Matrix for DXP Enterprises, Inc. |     |              |     |      |     |            |     |                         |     |            |     |      |