Company: VRT
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-094674
Chunk: 4

Company: Vertiv Holdings Co
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 4
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, South Carolina. We anticipate continuing to invest in capacity to provide the geographic presence that our customers need, and the ability to rapidly scale and to ensure resiliency. Furthermore, as the maturity and adoption of AI and high-performance compute continues to impact the data center industry, we’ve invested in developing new |

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| products, services and solutions to meet our customer’s technological and growth demands, such as expansions of our liquid cooling and chiller technologies in our thermal management portfolio to serve AI and high-performance compute applications. |

| ✓ | Cost Mitigation. We continued to take decisive actions to enhance supply chain resiliency, mitigate inflationary pressures from material and labor costs through the qualification and on-boarding of alternate suppliers, analyze and reduce discretionary spending, and other actions targeted to keep fixed costs constant. |

| ✓ | Supply Chain Improvements. We continued our global cadence of reviewing both internal and external supply chain challenges to address inflationary costs and labor and parts shortages. We continued our focused efforts on supplier diversity and resiliency, as well as engineering redesign initiatives, to enable us to qualify alternate part and component suppliers for our products and improve supplier delivery times and reductions in cost. Further, we maintained our “in region, for region” supply base emphasis to focus suppliers in region on delivering parts and components for our operations in the region. |

| ✓ | Attracting and Retaining of Our Workforce Talent. As we continue to position our business for short- and long-term growth, we maintained our focused approach regarding retention of our employee talent pool, and efforts to attract, hire and retain talent, particularly in our engineering, research and development and operations teams. We have continued to grow in a reasonable manner despite a competitive labor environment and rising labor costs in 2024. |

| ✓ | Management Focus. Our entire management team, together with our Executive Chairman as further described in the “Board of Directors Leadership Structure” below, is actively involved in setting and implementing our strategic priorities and responding to the opportunities and challenges we faced as a company in 2024. |

Compensation Packages Are Strongly Aligned with Stockholder Interests The following charts show the mix of the primary compensation elements for 2024 for our CEO and our other NEOs, including salary, target annual cash incentive, annual long-term incentive awards granted during the year (in the form of stock options) and other benefits. As reflected in the charts below, we