Company: PLPC
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-014223
Chunk: 8

Company: PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 Board, as well as theAudit, Nominating, and Compensation Committees.                                                             |
| Robert RuhlmanAge: 68Director Since: 1992                                                | Background / QualificationsMr. Ruhlman started with the Company over 40 years ago as an AssociateEngineer.  Over his years of service with the Company, he has held variouspositions including Manufacturing Administrator (1985), New VentureCoordinator (1987), Vice President of Corporate Planning (1988), President(1995), Chief Operating Officer (1995) and, most recently, Chief ExecutiveOfficer (2000).  He was appointed as Chairman of the Board in 2004 andExecutive Chairman effective January 1, 2024.  These positions have given Mr.Ruhlman exposure to almost every aspect of the Company, frommanufacturing to marketing.  He has had ample experience and intimateknowledge of not only the Company itself, but also working with its customers.He has also been lauded for his clear thinking and ability to distill vastinformation into its critical components. Finally, his leadership fosters a Boardculture of open discussion to support sound decision-making. Mr. Ruhlman isthe father of J. Ryan Ruhlman, a director and executive officer of theCompany, and Maegan A. R. Cross, a director of the Company. |

| 82024 Proxy Statement | PREFORMEDLINEPRODUCTSCOMPANY |

The terms of the current directors below will not expire at the 2026 annual meeting.

| Glenn E. CorlettAge: 81Director Since: 2017Committees: Audit,Compensation           | Background / QualificationsMr. Corlett’s business experience commenced over 40 years ago, when hejoined Price Waterhouse where he served as a partner until 1990.  Since thattime, Mr. Corlett had served as the Chief Financial Officer and later the ChiefOperating Officer for N.W. Ayer, a major international advertising agencybefore he became a Professor of Accounting at Ohio University, and the Deanand Philip J. Gardner Leadership Professor at the College of Business at OhioUniversity from July 1997 through June 2007.  Mr. Corlett’s tenure at OhioUniversity’s Business School has given him the necessary credentials to be acontributing member of the Board, not only from an accounting aspect, butalso in general business management.  Mr. Corlett has lectured and written onaccounting, auditing and executive compensation. Mr. Corlett’s zest forunder