Company: AOS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-037641
Chunk: 15

Company: SMITH A O CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 15
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 Corporation

Election of Directors

| LOIS M. MARTIN   Chief Financial Officer, Mortenson Companies, Inc. |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Director since: 2024 Age: 62 Committee: •  Audit                    |     | Director Biography: Since 2017, Ms. Martin has been the chief financial officer of Mortenson Companies, Inc., a $6B privately held conglomerate of development, real estate, corporate private equity and construction entities spanning the renewable energy, technology, commercial and infrastructure industries. Ms. Martin has more than 30 years of financial experience. Prior to Mortenson Companies, she was executive vice president and chief financial officer at Ceridian Corporation from 2012 to 2017; chief financial officer at Capella University from 2004 to 2008; executive vice president and chief financial officer at World Data Products from 2002 to 2004; and senior vice president and chief financial officer at Deluxe Corporation from 2000 to 2001. Ms. Martin joined Deluxe in 1993 and served as chief financial officer from 1993 to 2001, along with various executive positions. Ms. Martin has been a director of Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. since 2016 and serves as chair of its Audit Committee. She previously served as a director of Raven Industries, Inc. from 2018 to 2021, ADC Telecommunications from 2004 to 2010 and MTS Systems from 2006 to 2010. Ms. Martin began her career in public accounting as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. |     | Skills and Qualifications: Ms. Martin brings extensive executive-level financial experience to our company. With her extensive financial experience, including at publicly traded companies, the Board has determined that she qualifies as an audit committee financial expert under SEC regulations. In addition, Ms. Martin brings gender diversity to our Board. |

| ADRIAN I. PEACE   President, Performance Technologies, Modine Manufacturing Company |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Director Nominee Age: 57 Committee: •  Audit (Starting after the Annual Meeting)    |     | Director Biography: Mr. Peace is president, performance technologies at Modine Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of engineered heat transfer systems and heat transfer components