Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-064607
Chunk: 32

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 32
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 an understanding of the water industry, utilities, marketing, finance, customer service, utility and environmental regulation, cybersecurity and public policy issues. The Nominating Committee does not assign specific weights to particular criteria and no particular criterion is necessarily applicable to all prospective nominees. In addition, the Board is committed to having directors who add tangible value to American Water with a diversity of ideas, approaches and experiences and the interpersonal capacity to foster effective communication within the Board and with management. Annually, the Nominating Committee reviews the profile, engagement and performance of each director to determine whether the director should be renominated for Board service. The Nominating Committee also considers whether, in light of our strategy or trends in our market environment, new skill sets or experiences would benefit us and our shareholders. The process followed by the Nominating Committee to identify and evaluate candidates includes requests to members of the Board and others for recommendations, meetings from time to time to evaluate biographical information and background material relating to potential candidates, and interviews of selected candidates by members of the Nominating Committee and other members of the Board. The Nominating Committee may engage a third party to assist in the search for director candidates or to assist in gathering information regarding a director candidate’s background and experience. If the Nominating Committee engages a third party, that committee would approve the fee that American Water pays for these services.

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When evaluating the recommendations of the Nominating Committee, the Board should take into account all factors it considers appropriate, which may include:

| · |     | whether the candidate has exhibited behavior that indicates commitment to the highest ethical standards; |

| · |     | whether the candidate has special skills, expertise and background that would complement the attributes of the existing directors, taking into consideration the communities and geographies in which the Company operates; |

| · |     | whether the candidate has achieved prominence in their business, governmental or professional activities, and has built a reputation that demonstrates the ability to make the kind of important and sensitive judgments that the Board is called upon to make; |

| · |     | whether the candidate will effectively, consistently and appropriately take into account and balance the legitimate interests and concerns of all of our shareholders and our other stakeholders in reaching decisions, rather than advancing the interests of a particular constituency; |

| · |     | whether the candidate possesses a willingness to challenge management while working constructively as part of a team in an environment of collegiality and