Company: IR
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-015748
Chunk: 30

Company: Ingersoll Rand Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 30
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, including each candidate’s strength of character, judgment, familiarity with the Company’s business and industry, independence of thought and an ability to work collegially with the other members of the Board. Various candidates interviewed with the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and select members of management. Through this process, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee received input from directors and stakeholders and identified a number of qualified director candidates who together represented experience in the areas of leadership, human resources, finance, digital connectivity and strategy, international business transactions, and board level strategy. From these highly qualified candidates, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee recommended to the Board that it appoint Ms. Swanenburg as a new director in 2025. In selecting Ms. Swanenburg as a new director, our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee considered the skills and experience that would best complement our strategic imperatives and ensure healthy Board refreshment. Specifically, it selected Ms. Swanenburg in light of her extensive experience in supporting succession planning, talent acquisition, performance management, and compensation across the enterprise, which allows her to effectively support our Deploy Talent strategic imperative. The 2025 addition of Ms. Swanenburg, in tandem with the impending retirements of Mr. Forsee and Ms. Arnold, evidences our focus on refreshment, and reduced our average director tenure. Additionally, our Nominating and Corporate Ingersoll Rand 26 2025 Proxy Statement TABLE OF CONTENTS Governance Committee determined that Ms. Swanenburg did not have any arrangements or understandings with any other person pursuant to which she was selected as a director, nor did she have a direct or indirect material interest in any transactions that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K at the time of appointment. In connection with its annual nomination of the full slate of nominees at this year’s Annual Meeting, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee assessed the contributions of those directors recommended for re-election in keeping with the director evaluation process described above and other identified needs of the Board. This annual director nomination process resulted in the Board’s nomination for election at the Annual Meeting of the eight incumbent directors named in Proposal 1 in this Proxy Statement. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will consider director candidates recommended by stockholders. Any recommendation submitted to the Secretary of the Company should be in writing and should include any supporting material the stockholder considers appropriate in support of that recommendation, but must include information that would be required under the rules of the SEC to be included in a proxy statement soliciting