Company: ASTE
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-023778
Chunk: 37

Company: ASTEC INDUSTRIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 37
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 — Nominees for Election of Class III Directors” above. The persons appointed as proxies will vote the shares represented by the proxy appointment in favor of the election to the Board of Directors of each of Directors Cook, Howell and Knoll, unless the authority to vote for any or all of the nominees is withheld or such appointment has previously been revoked. Each Class III director will be elected to hold office until the 2028 Annual Meeting of shareholders and thereafter until a successor has been duly elected and qualified. In the event that any nominee is unable to serve (which is not anticipated), the persons appointed as proxies will cast votes for the remaining nominees and for such other persons as they may select. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THAT SHAREHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE ELECTION OF EACH OF THE NOMINEES.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 29 Astec Industries, Inc. | Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement 2025

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS The executive officers of the Company and their ages are as follows:

| ​ | Name                    | ​ | ​ | Age | ​ | ​ | Position(s)                                                       | ​ |
| ​ | Jaco G. van der Merwe   | ​ | ​ |  52 | ​ | ​ | President and Chief Executive Officer                             | ​ |
| ​ | Brian J. Harris         | ​ | ​ |  68 | ​ | ​ | Chief Financial Officer                                           | ​ |
| ​ | Michael P. Norris       | ​ | ​ |  56 | ​ | ​ | Group President — Material Solutions                              | ​ |
| ​ | Barend Snyman           | ​ | ​ |  52 | ​ | ​ | Group President — Infrastructure Solutions                        | ​ |
| ​ | E. Terrell Gilbert, Jr. | ​ | ​ |  53 | ​ | ​ | General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary | ​ |

| ​ | ​                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | ​ | ​ | Jaco G. van der Merwe | ​ |
| ​ |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | ​ | ​ | Age: 52               | ​ |
| ​ | Jaco van der Merwe has served as our President & CEO since January 2023. Prior to that, Mr. van der Merwe was a Group President (since January 2019) after having previously served as Group President — Energy since August 2016. From 1998 until 2016