Company: UTZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-038342
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Company: Utz Brands, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: DEF 14A
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’s qualifications to serve on our Board of Directors include his significant financial, marketing and operational experience in the food and beverage industry. |

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PROPOSAL NO. 1: ELECTION OF DIRECTORS § DIRECTORS OF UTZ BRANDS, INC.

| Jason GiordanoAge: 46 |     | Career HighlightsMr. Giordano has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since August 2020. Mr. Giordano was the Co-Executive Chairperson, Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer of Collier Creek from June 1, 2018 until August 2020. Mr. Giordano has over 20 years of investment and acquisition experience, with a focus in the consumer goods and related sectors. Mr. Giordano has been a Senior Managing Director at CC Capital (affiliates of whom are indirect owners of Utz securities through CC Collier Holdings LLC), a private investment firm, since November 2018. Mr. Giordano was EVP Corporate Development for CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II, a special purpose acquisition company, from July 2020 until July 2022, and was EVP Corporate Development for CC Neuberger Principal Holdings III, a special purpose acquisition company, from August 2020 to November 2023. Previously, Mr. Giordano was a Managing Director in the private equity group at Blackstone where he oversaw investments in the consumer, education, packaging and chemicals sectors. During his tenure at Blackstone from 2006 to October 2017, Mr. Giordano was involved in 12 initial and follow-on acquisitions representing over $10 billion of transaction value, including several investments in consumer, retail and related businesses. Prior to Blackstone, Mr. Giordano was a private equity investment professional at Bain Capital, LP, a leading multi-asset alternative investment firms, and an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs, & Co., a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Mr. Giordano previously served on the boards of directors of Pinnacle Foods, Inc., a U.S.-based manufacturer and marketer of branded food products, from 2007 to September 2015; Crocs, Inc. (Nasdaq: CROX), a global supplier of branded footwear, from January 2015 to October 2017; AVINTIV, a global supplier of specialty materials primarily sold to consumer goods manufacturers, from January 2011 to October 2015