Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000007789-25-000025
Chunk: 9

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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 Southern Company and President and Chief Executive Officer of South WesternElectricity, Southern Company’s electric distribution utility in the United Kingdom.Mr. Klappa is co-chair of the Milwaukee 7, a regional economic development initiative. Heserves on the School of Business Advisory Council for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mr. Klappa also served as a director of Badger Meter Inc. (NYSE: BMI) fromApril 2010 until April 2023 and as independent lead director from April 2020 to April 2023,and served as a director of Joy Global Inc. from 2006 until the company was acquired in 2017.Mr. Klappa’s qualifications to serve as a director of Associated, Chair of the Compensationand Benefits Committee, and member of the Corporate Governance and Social ResponsibilityCommittee and the Corporate Development Committee include his more than 40 years ofmanagement experience in large publicly traded companies, including over 25 years at asenior executive level, and his recognized leadership in the economic development ofsoutheastern Wisconsin. Although Mr. Klappa is not currently serving on Associated’s AuditCommittee, he meets the requirements of an audit committee financial expert. |
| Kristen M. Ludgate         |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Director since 2024Age: 62 | Ms. Ludgate is a Strategic Advisor at HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ), a global provider of personalcomputing and other digital devices, imaging and printing products, and related technologies,solutions and services. She was previously HP’s Chief People Officer, from 2021 throughJanuary 2025, overseeing all people, culture, workforce, and human resources strategies,functions, and programs for HP’s global organization. She was also a director of the HPFoundation and co-chair of HP’s enterprise crisis management team. Ms. Ludgate previouslyserved as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for 3M Company(NYSE: MMM) from 2018 to 2021, where she led People & Culture as a key strategic priorityfor 3M. Over more than fifteen years at 3M, Ms. Ludgate held a variety of other legal andexecutive leadership roles, including as 3M’s Senior Vice President, Enterprise Services andCommunications, Associate General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, and AssociateGeneral Counsel and Chief Employment Counsel. Ms. Ludgate was also chair of the 3MFoundation Board from 2018 to