Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
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Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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#### OUR PURPOSE AND STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
assessments within our Environmental, Health & Safety ("EH&S") Management System, we have focused on the following key topics: energy and emissions, as well as effluents and waste from our operations. Avient’s Corporate EH&S Department is responsible for overseeing these areas, and it receives input and oversight from our leadership team and Board of Directors.

Performance

An overarching expectation at Avient is to generate topline growth with margin expansion on the bottom line. In 2024, we delivered both, in what was a positive year for Avient where we achieved year-over-year increases in our key performance metrics.

Additional performance commentary is provided in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis section of this proxy statement, on the Investor Relations section of www.avient.com, in our 2024 Annual Report and during our quarterly earnings conference calls. Information on our website is not deemed a part hereof, unless explicitly incorporated by reference.

Our Director Nominees and Committee Membership

You are being asked to vote on the election of twelve Director nominees. Detailed information about each Director nominee’s background, qualifications, attributes, skills and experience can be found beginning on page 11.

Our Board maintains Audit ("AC"), Compensation ("CC"), Governance and Corporate Responsibility ("G&CRC"), and Environmental, Health and Safety ("EH&SC") committees. The following table provides membership and meeting information for each committee as of March 18, 2025. In addition, the table identifies the independent directors.

| Name                            |     | Age |     | Director 
    Since |     | Independent |     | Committee Membership 
  (M=Member, C=Chair) |     |   |     |   |     |   |
| AC                              |     |  CC |     |    G&CRC |     | EH&SC       |     |                      |     |   |     |   |     |   |
| Robert E. Abernathy             |     |  70 |     |     2018 |     | Yes         |     |                    M |     | M |     |   |     |   |
| Richard H. Fearon               |     |  69 |     |     2004 |     | Yes         |     |                      |     | M |     | C |     |   |
| Gregory J. Goff                 |     |  68 |     |     2011 |     | Yes         |     |                      |     |