Company: AFGC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-012231
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Company: AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 provide to the Board insights and advice on the broad variety of situations and issues that the Board faces. |

| 102025 Proxy Statement | American Financial Group |

TABLE OF CONTENTS Proposal No. 1

| Age |62     
 Director    
 Since |2012 |     | John B. Berding                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
 Mr. Berding was elected President of AFG in June 2023 and was President of AMMC in January 2011. Prior to his role as President, he held a number of investment-related executive positions with AMMC and other AFG subsidiaries. Mr. Berding has over 30 years of experience as an investment professional, and he has spent his entire career with the Company and its affiliates. 
 The Board values Mr. Berding’s knowledge of financial markets and investment management as well as his specific knowledge of the Company’s investment portfolio and strategy and has determined that his ability to contribute his experience on a constant basis as a member of the Board are invaluable to the Company.                                                            |

| Age |47     
 Director    
 Since |2025 |     | Craig Lindner, Jr.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 Mr. Lindner currently serves as the Divisional President of AFG Real Estate Investments, a position he has held since 2017. In this role, he manages the Company’s portfolio of apartments, resort and marina properties and other commercial real estate, in addition to its extensive portfolio of commercial mortgages. Mr. Lindner joined AFG in 2002. Over the course of a 20-year career in real estate investing and the insurance industry, he has played a key role in overseeing the management and operations of the Company’s investments in real estate equity and debt. During much of this time, he also served as a member of the executive team of AFG’s Annuity Group until the time of its sale in 2021. He served on the Board of Directors of Cranemere, a long-term industrial holding company, from 2017-2020. 
 The Board believes that it will benefit significantly from Mr. Lindner’s experience and acumen in real estate investing and operations, which represents a significant portion of the Company’s alternative investment portfolio and is a meaningful contributor to AFG’s net investment income.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

| Age |62     
 Director    
 Since |2019 |     | Mary Beth Martin                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 Ms. Martin has served as the Executive Director of the Farmer Family Foundation in Cincinnati, Ohio since