Company: TR
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-003853
Chunk: 4

Company: TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 4
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 also chaired its audit committee. |
| Michael A. Chodos, 66(1)(2)                       | ​ | ​ | Director since January, 2025; Principal at the Law Offices of Michael Chodos, 1984 to the present; Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Medsphere Systems Corporation from June, 2020 to September, 2023 and General Counsel, Senior Vice President, Notarize, Inc. from June, 2016 to February, 2020.  Mr. Chodos, is a seasoned corporate counsel, entrepreneur, and board advisor, with many years of transactional, corporate finance, governance, compliance, labor relations, regulatory and government relations experience across a broad range of enterprises.                                                |
| Lana Jane Lewis-Brent, 78(1)(2)                   | ​ | ​ | Director since 1988; President of Paul Brent Designer, Inc. since 1992; former President of Sunshine-Jr. Stores, Inc. Mrs. Lewis-Brent possesses knowledge of the Company’s history and brings to the Board in depth operational skills as well as a retailer’s perspective of the confectionery industry by virtue of her executive management experience in the convenience store industry, which represents an important outlet for the Company’s products.                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Paula M. Wardynski, 67(1)(2)                      | ​ | ​ | Director since 2015; Senior Vice-President-Finance of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. 2007-2019. Ms. Wardynski is a seasoned financial executive and brings to the Board a broad range of financial and managerial skills as well as corporate governance experience in a public company environment, having served for many years in a senior executive capacity at one of the premier international media and entertainment companies in the world.                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Virginia L. Gordon, 72                            | ​ | ​ | Director since 2021; Private investor who has served on the boards of several national and local public service and charitable organizations; Director of HDI Investment Corp., a family investment company. Ms. Gordon has an in depth knowledge of the Company having been a significant shareholder for many years and possesses knowledge of the Company’s history as a result of the Gordon family’s involvement for many years. Ms. Gordon is the daughter of Ellen R. Gordon.                                                                                                                                             |

| (1) | Member of the Audit Committee. |

| (2) | Member of the Compensation Committee. |

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Director Independence and Corporate Governance.The Board of