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

Company: SMITH A O CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 14
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, Mr. Smith is knowledgeable of company history and culture, and understands our long-term strategic and tactical plans. Mr. Smith is also a member of the Smith family, which holds a controlling interest in the stock of our company. |

| KEVIN J. WHEELER   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, A. O. Smith Corporation |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Director since: 2017 Age: 65                                                     |     | Director Biography: Mr. Wheeler became chairman of our company in 2020 and president and chief executive officer of our company in 2018. From 2017 to 2018, he was president and chief operating officer of our company. From 2013 to 2017, Mr. Wheeler held the position of senior vice president of A. O. Smith Corporation and president and general manager of its North America, India, Europe Water Heating and Export business, which was then the company’s largest operating unit. Mr. Wheeler previously served as managing director of our company’s European operations, where he had responsibility for water heater business in Europe and the Middle East, and upon his return to the United States from the Netherlands, served as vice president-international, with responsibility for all European and Asian operations, including China. Mr. Wheeler joined the company in 1994 as a regional sales manager and has held positions of increasing responsibility. Mr. Wheeler also serves on the board of Graco Inc., where he is a member of the Governance Committee and the Management Organization and Compensation Committee. |     | Skills and Qualifications: Mr. Wheeler has extensive sales, manufacturing and international experience in various executive positions with our company, most recently as our chief executive officer, and brings to the Board a thorough understanding of our people, products and markets worldwide. Mr. Wheeler has cybersecurity experience. Further, Mr. Wheeler has experience as a director of another publicly traded company, which brings a different perspective to our Board. |

2025 Proxy Statement 9

Election of Directors NOMINEES – COMMON STOCK

| TODD W. FISTER   Chief Financial Officer, Owens Corning |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Director since: 2024 Age: 50 Committee: •  Audit        |     | Director Biography: Mr. Fister became chief financial officer of Owens Corning, a global manufacturer of building and composite material systems, in September 2023