Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
Chunk: 34

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 34
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 of Supervisory Board of innogy SE. Experience and Qualifications As a member of the Management Board of E.ON SE, one of the world’s largest investor-owned electric utility service providers and as the former Chief Executive Officer of E.ON Energie, the largest electricity supply company in Germany, Dr. Ossadnik brings the senior executive experience and skills described above. In addition, given her substantial senior management experience as the Chief Operating Officer – Digital at E.ON SE and previously at both Microsoft and Oracle in Germany, she contributes key insights and counsel as to Linde’s use of technology and further development of digitization in its business operations.

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Corporate Governance and Board Matters

Director Nominees

|                                                          | Paula Rosput Reynolds |                                   |                         |
| President and Chief Executive Officer of PreferWest, LLC |                       |                                   |                         |
| AgeDirector SinceOther Public CompanyDirectorships       |                       | 682024GE VernovaNational Grid plc | •Linde End-Markets      
 •Linde Foreign Markets  
 •Operations             
 •International Business 
 •Technology             
 •Risk Management        
 •Public Company Board   |

Biography Paula Rosput Reynolds has been the president and CEO of PreferWest LLC, a business advisory firm and family office, since 2009. Ms. Reynolds started her career at Pacific Gas & Electric Corp in 1979 and spent over 40 years in the energy industry. She has held a number of executive positions during her career, including CEO of Duke Energy Power Services; Chair, president and CEO of AGL Resources; Chair and CEO of Safeco Corporation; and Vice-Chair and Chief Restructuring Officer of AIG. She was previously a nonexecutive director of TransCanada Corporation, CBRE Group, Inc, BAE Systems PLC, Anadarko Petroleum, Delta Air Lines and Coca Cola Enterprises, and Chair of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Ms Reynolds also was the Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee at BP plc until 2024. Currently, Ms. Reynolds is the Chair of National Grid plc (appointed in 2021). She was a director of General Electric Company from 2018 through April 2024. Effective April 2, 2024, Ms. Reynolds became a director of GE Vernova, which was spun-off as a separate public company from General Electric Company, where she serves as the Chair of the Safety and Sustainability Committee . Experience and Qualifications Ms. Reynolds has had a long career