Company: AFGC
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001140361-25-005197
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Company: AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02      Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.  

On February 19, 2025, the Board of Directors (“ Board”) of American Financial Group, Inc. (“ Company”) elected Craig Lindner Jr. and David L. Thompson Jr.
as Directors, effective immediately, until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.

Mr. Lindner currently serves as the Divisional President of AFG Real Estate Investments, a position he has held since 2017. In this role, he manages
the Company’s portfolio of apartments, resort and marina properties and other commercial real estate, in addition to its extensive portfolio of commercial mortgages. Mr. Lindner joined the Company in 2002. Over the course of a 20-year career in real
estate investing and the insurance industry, he has played a key role in overseeing the management and operations of the Company’s investments in real estate equity and debt.

Mr. Thompson currently serves as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Operating Officer of Great American Insurance Company (“ Great American”), the
Company’s flagship property and casualty insurance company. Since joining Great American in 2006, he has served in various senior management capacities and has had direct executive oversight of many of Great American’s specialty property and casualty
businesses, as well as its corporate reinsurance operations, the Company’s wholly owned retail agency, Dempsey & Siders, and was instrumental in the formation of its Predictive Analytics function.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Lindner or Mr. Thompson and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Lindner or Mr. Thompson were
elected as Directors of the Company. Any transactions between the Company and Messrs. Lindner or Thompson requiring disclosure pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K were included in the Company’s 2024 Proxy Statement.

Also on February 19, 2025, James E. Evans notified the Board of his intention not to stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders,
though he will continue to serve as a Director through the remainder of his current term. Mr. Evans will continue to advise the Company as Executive Consultant, a role he has held since his transition from a senior officer and employee of the
Company in 2014. His decision not to stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting is not the result