Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
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Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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 Officer, together with his years of service at other large global companies, enable him to provide the Board with important insight and leadership. He has comprehensive knowledge of financial accounting standards and extensive experience in financial statement preparation, corporate finance, corporate development, risk management, and investor relations. As an individual with extensive experience as an executive and leader at a multi-national corporation, Mr. Fearon is particularly equipped to advise our Board on current issues facing our Company. He also has significant governance expertise developed through his years as Lead Director of the Company from 2015 through 2023, as well as his service on numerous other boards. He has served as Non-Executive Chairman of our Board since 2023. |     | Director since: 2004                  
 Age: 69                               
 Current Public Company Directorships: 
 •Waters Corporation                   
 •Crown Holdings, Inc.                 
 •CRH plc                              
 Former Directorships:                 
 •Eaton plc                            
 •Southern Steel Bhd                   
 •Centurion Industries, Ltd.           
 •Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VI |

<div align='center'>PROXY STATEMENT 2025 | Annual Meeting of Shareholders 12</div>

#### ELECTION OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
| Gregory J. Goff                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Manifest Energy Transitions Company, an investment company investing in businesses in the energy sector, since 2024. Retired Executive Vice Chairman of Marathon Petroleum Corporation (“Marathon”), a leading, integrated, downstream energy company. Mr. Goff served in this capacity from 2018 until his retirement in 2019. Prior to Marathon’s acquisition of Andeavor (formerly Tesoro Corporation), Mr. Goff served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2010 to 2018, and as Chairman from 2014 to 2018, of Andeavor, a leading company in the independent refining and marketing business. He also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Andeavor Logistics LP (formerly Tesoro Logistics LP), a NYSE-listed master limited partnership that owned, operated and developed crude oil and refined products and logistics assets, from 2011 to 2018. Prior to joining Tesoro in 2010, Mr. Goff worked for ConocoPhillips Corporation, an integrated energy company, where he held a number of senior leadership positions, most recently Senior Vice President Commercial from 2008 to 2010. 
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