Company: AVD
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-079166
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Company: AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 growing and transforming businesses. During her career at The Coca-Cola Company, she served as CMO (Central and Eastern Europe, Mexico and Brazil), VP of Global Tea/Water categories, and General Manager of Glaceau Smartwater. Prior to that, Ms. Angelini led personal care, household cleaners, oral care, and paper businesses, which she ran while working for Procter & Gamble in Latin America. She has been involved in multiple acquisitions within P&G and Coca-Cola and has been instrumental in sourcing, integrating and making these businesses profitable. She has board experience in public, private and non-profit companies and is a certified board director. She served on the board of Bush’s Brothers (a $1 billion family company) and is also a member of NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors), which is dedicated toward director education and best practices for public company boards. Ms. Angelini holds an MBA from Mercer University in Atlanta and a BA from Georgia State University. Ms. Angelini’s experience in the food sector (which is our ultimate customer), LATAM, marketing, new product launching, and governance are all valuable traits for our board of directors.

Dr. Mark R. Bassett,age 64, was elected to the Board in June 2022.

Experience: Dr. Bassett brings strong operational expertise and a continuous improvement mindset. He has a long and accomplished history over the last 30 years of building and growing chemical businesses. Until December 31, 2021, Dr. Bassett was the Chairman and CEO of Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC). The leadership of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) selected him to manage the transition of HSC to becoming a standalone company of approximately $1 billion in revenue and roughly 1,200 of employees. HSC is a leading provider of ultra-pure polycrystalline silicon and other silicon-based products used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, solar cells and modules. Prior to leading HSC, from 2012-2016 he was a global VP, Polyurethanes at The Dow Chemical Company responsible for a multi-billion dollar global P&L with over 2000

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associates at over 35 sites globally. From 2009-2012, he led the formation of Dow Oxygenated Solvents which consolidated three separate businesses into a multi-billion dollar portfolio with 10 sites and approximately 500 employees. He graduated magna cum laude from Notre Dame with a B