Company: VRT
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-094674
Chunk: 41

Company: Vertiv Holdings Co
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 41
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 |     | Objectives                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Base Salary                                    
 (page 32)                                      |     | Attract and retain world-class leadership talent by using relevant market data to determine executive pay, while also considering tenure, experience, scope of duties and short-term and long-term performance.               |
| Vertiv Incentive Plan (“VIP”)                  
 (pages 33-34)                                  |     | Reward ingenuity, creative thinking, improved processes, operational execution, project completion and exceptional contributions through cash bonuses.                                                                        |
| Long-Term Incentive Compensation               
 (pages 34-35)                                  |     | Encourage our executive team to drive long-term stock price growth through equity grants that directly link the value to the executive to value to stockholders, while also encouraging retention through multi-year vesting. |
| Retirement, Termination/CIC and Other Benefits 
 (pages 35-36)                                  |     | Attract and retain key management members and, for severance and Change-in-Control matters, to motivate executives to take actions that are in the best interests of the Company.                                             |

| -  2025 Proxy Statement | 31 |

Compensation Philosophy and Process The Compensation Committee is focused on maintaining an executive compensation program that emphasizes variable, at-risk compensationand has an appropriate balance of short-term and long-term objectives. Executive compensation is approved by the Compensation Committee, which consists solely of independent directors, and then the Board (with all of the independent members of the Board) approves the CEO’s compensation. Our Compensation Committee meets regularly throughout the year to review our executive compensation program and to ensure alignment of the interests of our executives with those of our stockholders. Meeting agendas contain items proposed by management or the Compensation Committee members. Pursuant to our Equity Grant Policy, implemented at the February 24, 2021, meeting of the Compensation Committee, annual equity awards to directors and continuing executive officers are to be approved at the first meeting of the Compensation Committee (and, where applicable, the Board) held during the first quarter of the year. Additional grants (such as promotion, new hire or special grants) may be approved during the year. Under our 2020 Stock Incentive Plan, the Compensation Committee may delegate authority to our CEO to make grants to non-executive employees,but may not delegate any authority with respect to grants to executive officers. Our Compensation Committee members engage in active discussions of compensation matters with management and with each other as part of their decision-making process. Each meeting includes an