Company: VRT
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-094674
Chunk: 36

Company: Vertiv Holdings Co
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 36
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, sales and marketing functions, including strong focus on channel and vertical markets. He has led transformation of large-scale sales organizations. Before joining Vertiv in 2018, Mr. Winther held regional and country sales roles at Epson, a multinational electronics company, from May 2000 until August 2012, and NEC, a multinational information technology and electronics corporation, from September 2012 until March 2016, and Cobham SATCOM, a satellite communications equipment company, from April 2016 until April 2018, where he led global sales, marketing and service. Mr. Winther studied business economics & management at Copenhagen Business School and also completed a two-yearRising Star program at Esade in Barcelona, with emphasis on strategy, finance, innovation, CSR and leadership.

| 26 | |     | -  2025 Proxy Statement |

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION Compensation Discussion and Analysis Our executive compensation program is structured to reward performance consistent with our short-term and long-term goals, to reflect our business strategy and our organizational structure, to support our goal of delivering long-term value to our stockholders and to align with our near-term strategic and operational goals. This Compensation Discussion and Analysis (“ CD&A”) reviews the objectives and components of our executive compensation program and discusses the 2024 compensation earned by our named executive officers (or “NEOs”), who are listed below.

| Giordano Albertazzi Chief Executive Officer |     | David Fallon Chief Financial 
 Officer                      |     | Anand Sanghi President, Americas |     | Stephanie Gill Chief Legal Counsel |     | Anders Karlborg EVP, Manufacturing, Logistics and Operational Excellence |

We are dedicated to a pay for performance philosophy with compensation tied to, and which rewards our executive officers for, both short-term and long-term performance of the Company. This CD&A summarizes the details of executive compensation decisions along with several of our business highlights in 2024. Features of our executive compensation program for 2024 included:

| • |     | Pay for performance. Our CEO’s pay opportunities primarily consisted of performance-based compensation, particularly equity compensation in the form of stock options that have value only if our stock price increases following the grant date along with an opportunity to earn a cash bonus based on performance. |

| • |     | Annual bonus payouts reflecting strong performance. As further described below, bonus payouts for our NEOs were paid above target as a result of our strong financial performance in 2024, including achievement of results above our financial targets