Company: AVD
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-079166
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Company: AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 responsibility at Arthur Andersen, LLP from 1980-2002. Throughout his career, Mr. Macicek has provided audit, tax and advisory services to numerous corporate clients, including high-growth mid-caps and large multinationals across multiple industries, including, distribution, manufacturing, construction, engineering, oil and gas, energy services and software. He is an audit committee financial expert, a Certified Public Accountant and has advised numerous boards and C-suite executives on complex accounting and business issues.

Keith M. Rosenbloom, age 56, was elected to the Board in June 2022.

Experience : Mr. Rosenbloom has over 30 years of public and private investing experience. He is committed to helping AVD create long-term shareholder value by improving its asset allocation paradigm, corporate finance analysis, capital markets credibility and focus on improving long-term stakeholder returns. Mr. Rosenbloom is the co-founder of Cruiser Capital Advisors, LLC, which acts as the investment advisor to pooled investment vehicles on a discretionary basis. Over the past eight years, Mr. Rosenbloom has helped the boards of public companies such as A. Schulman (formerly NASDAQ: SHLM), Ashland Global (NYSE: ASH) and Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), add highly qualified members to their boardrooms, seeking to improve stockholder value at those companies. Mr. Rosenbloom also serves on a number of charitable boards including, Hillel International (Board of Governors), and Hatzalah (Israel's private EMT service). Mr. Rosenbloom graduated cum laude from Yale University.

Carmen Tiu de Mino, age 62, was elected to the Board in December 2024.

Experience: Ms. Tiu has over 30 years in the agricultural chemical sector, having joined Dow AgroSciences in 1987 (including its successor company Corteva AgroSciences) in roles of increasing responsibility until her retirement in early 2024. During her career at Dow/Corteva, Ms. Tiu worked primarily in regulatory strategy, food standards, risk, and government affairs. She is the author of over 100 scientific publications and contributed to hundreds of regulatory strategies. Ms. Tiu earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a Masters of Science degree in Organic Chemistry from the University Politechnic Timisoara and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

As indicated in the table below, our director nominees collectively possess a wide-range of key skills and compet