Company: AOS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-037641
Chunk: 12

Company: SMITH A O CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 12
---
 experience. Ms. Holt has completed the National Association of Corporate Director (NACD) Cyber Risk Oversight Program and earned the CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight. In addition, she has many years of experience serving on public company boards of directors. As an added benefit, Ms. Holt brings gender diversity to our Board. |

2025 Proxy Statement 7

Election of Directors

| DR. ILHAM KADRI   Chief Executive Officer and Director, Syensqo S.A.                                |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Director since: 2016 Age: 56 Committees: •  Nominating and Governance •  Personnel and Compensation |     | Director Biography: Dr. Kadri became the chief executive officer of Syensqo S.A. in December 2023 when Solvay S.A. split into two separate publicly traded entities with worldwide operations: Syensqo S.A. and Solvay S.A., both headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Syensqo is a pure play science company focused on “clean” technology at the service of lightweighting, electrification, connectivity, resource efficiency, circularity and biomaterials. During her appointment as CEO of Solvay, 2019-2023, Dr. Kadri profoundly transformed the company. Under her leadership, Solvay nearly doubled returns, with 18 consecutive quarters of positive free cash flow, double-digit bottom-line growth and strengthened its balance sheet, all while cutting emissions two times more than the Paris Agreement requirement. From 2017 to 2018, Dr. Kadri was president and chief executive officer of Diversey, Inc., a global leader in hygiene and cleaning sectors. Dr. Kadri led the spin-off of Diversey, Inc. from Sealed Air Corporation (SEE) and sold it to private equity Bain. Prior to the spin-off, she was vice president of SEE and president of its Diversey division from 2013 to 2017. She also led the digital strategy of SEE and launched the Internet of Clean (IoC) at Diversey, Inc. Prior to joining SEE, Dr. Kadri held positions of increasing responsibility with Dow Chemical Company from 2007 until 2012, including general manager of its Advanced Materials Division in the Middle East, Africa and Europe (MEA), as well as the commercial director for Dow Water