Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-064607
Chunk: 37

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 37
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2023 to 2024 ·   Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of State, from 2019 to 2021 ·   Chief Information Officer, Johnson & Johnson, from 2012 to 2019 ·   Chief Information Officer, CVS Caremark, Inc., from 2008 to 2012   Experience and Qualifications to Serve on the Board:   ·   Mr. McGuigan’s long history of executive experience in navigating cybersecurity and technology risks and related regulatory compliance in various industries and for the U.S. government provides invaluable insights to the Board with respect to cybersecurity risk management and technology innovation. ·   His experience with implementing and managing information technology systems and developing enterprise applications brings additional insights regarding information management, human resources, finance and operational excellence, among other areas. |

| 22 |     | AMERICAN WATER | 2025 PROXY STATEMENT |

DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

The NYSE’s listing standards require that:

| · |     | a majority of our directors and all of the members of the Nominating Committee satisfy the NYSE’s independence standards applicable to all directors; |

| · |     | all of the members of the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee satisfy the NYSE’s independence standards applicable to audit committee members; and |

| · |     | all of the members of the ED&CC satisfy the NYSE’s independence standards applicable to compensation committee members. |

Applying these standards, the Board has determined that eight of the nine directors currently serving on the Board, consisting of Mses. Goss, Havanec, Johnson and Kampling, and Messrs. Edwards, Kurz, Marberry and McGuigan, qualify as independent. Due to their employment positions with the Company, the Board determined that Ms. Hardwick and Mr. Griffith do not qualify as independent. The Board also has determined that each of Mses. Goss and Kampling, and Messrs. Edwards and Marberry, satisfies the NYSE’s independence standards for audit committee members, and that each of Mses. Goss, Havanec, Johnson and Kampling, and Mr. McGuigan, satisfies the NYSE’s independence standards for compensation committee members.

For a director to be considered independent under the NYSE listing standards, a director cannot have any of the disqualifying relationships enumerated by those standards. Furthermore, the NYSE listing standards state that a director