Company: SXT
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-008248
Chunk: 18

Company: SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 18
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 making a recommendation to the Board. Recommendations by shareholders for director nominees may be sent to the Secretary of the Company, who will relay such information to the Committee Chairman. The recommendations should identify the proposed nominee by name; describe any arrangement or understanding between such person and the nominating shareholder with respect to the nomination, potential service as a director, or the Company’s securities; describe how the nominee would contribute

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to the variety of perspectives, professional experience, education, skills, or other individual qualities and attributes sought by the Company’s Board; and provide the questionnaire, nominee affirmations, and other materials specified in the By-laws, including the detailed information about the nominee required by SEC rules for the solicitation of proxies for election of directors. Shareholders should look to the information required under the Company’s By-laws for shareholder nominations and to the information included in this proxy statement regarding directors and nominees as a guide. Shareholders also have the right to directly nominate a person for election as a director so long as the advance notice, nominee affirmations, and informational requirements contained in the By-laws, applicable law, and SEC rules, including Rule 14a-19 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, are satisfied. See “Future Shareholder Proposals and Nominations” below. Scientific Advisory Committee The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Board met twice during 2024. This Committee consists of all of the directors as well as additional members that are not directors or officers of the Company. These additional members are Mr. Timothy J. Fink, a retired former Senior Director at PepsiCo, Inc.; Dr. John Floros, Professor in Food Science and Technology, New Mexico State University; Dr. Eric Decker, Professor and Head of the Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Dr. Monica Giusti, Associate Chair and Professor in the Department of Food Science & Technology at The Ohio State University; and Carol Kellar, Principal at Kellar & Associates, LLC. Among other functions, this Committee:

| • | reviews the Company’s research and development programs with respect to the quality and scope of work undertaken; |

| • | advises the Company on maintaining product leadership through technological innovation; |

| • | reports on new technological trends and regulatory developments that would significantly affect the Company and suggests possible new emphases with respect to its research programs and new business opportunities; and |

| • | works directly with management on key innovation and product safety related projects. |

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