Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
Chunk: 26

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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 matching contributions for his eligible personal charitable contributions pursuant to the Company’s charitable matching gift program that is available to the Company employees and non-management directors on the same basis. The Company matches personal donations to eligible charitable institutions up to a $15,000 maximum per year per donor, with matches for certain charitable programs that may exceed the general $15,000 match. |
| (3) | Joined the Board effective February 27, 2024                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| (4) | Retired from the Board effective April 29, 2024                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| (5) | Appointed Audit Chair effective April 30, 2024                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

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Corporate Governance and Board Matters

Director Nominees

Director Nominees

Experience and Qualifications of All Nominees

Ten persons have been nominated for election to the Board to serve for a one-year term concluding on the later of (a) the 2026 annual general meeting of shareholders and (b) the election and qualification of his or her successor. The Nomination and Governance Committee has nominated each current director of the Board for reelection at the Annual General Meeting. The Nomination and Governance Committee believes that each director nominee has an established record of accomplishment in areas relevant to Linde’s business and objectives and possesses the characteristics identified in Linde’s Corporate Governance Guidelines as essential to a well-functioning and deliberative governing body, including integrity, independence and commitment.

Each of the director nominees listed below has experience as a senior executive of a public company or comparable business organization. Each nominee also is serving or has served as a director of one or more public companies and on a variety of board committees. As such, each has executive management and director oversight experience in most, if not all, of the following areas which are critical to the conduct of the Company’s business, including: strategy development and implementation, risk assessment and management, financial accounting and reporting, internal controls, corporate finance, capital project evaluation, the evaluation, compensation, motivation and retention of senior executive talent, public policies as they affect global industrial corporations, compliance, corporate governance, productivity management, safety management, project management, sustainable development and, in most cases, global operations. Many of the nominees also bring particular insights into specific end-markets and foreign markets that are important to the Company. These nominees collectively provide a range of perspectives, experiences and competencies well-suited to providing advice and counsel to management and to overseeing