Company: AVD
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-079166
Chunk: 24

Company: AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
---
 and involves, among other things:

Working with senior management to evaluate, investigate and recommend changes in the area of corporate finance.

Reviewing making recommendations to the board regarding acquisitions, divestitures and restructuring activity.

Reviewing short-term and long-term financing plans.

<div align='center'>16</div>

Risk Committee

The Risk Committee is currently composed of Scott Baskin (Chairperson), Mark Bassett, Patrick Gottschalk, Emer Gunter and Carmen Tiu de Mino. The Risk Committee held four meetings during the year ended December 31, 2024. All members of the Board are invited to, and typically attend, Risk Committee meetings. The primary responsibility of the Risk Committee is to oversee risk management at the Company and to ensure that the Company continuously monitors material risks, identifies mitigation measures for those risks, and takes commercially practicable measures to minimize those risks to the fullest extent possible. The committee works with the Company’s Risk Manager and senior management to conduct (or cause to be conducted) periodic assessments of the Company’s risk profile and to ensure the following:

That adequate resources are made available to address and mitigate risks, where possible,

That risk owners are identified and made accountable for addressing these risks, and

That the practice of monitoring and addressing these risks remains a part of the Company’s culture.

See, also, “Risk Oversight” for additional information.

<div align='center'>17</div>

Family Relationships

There is no family relationship among any of our directors or executive officers.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

The Compensation Committee of the Board for the year ended December 31, 2024, consisted of Marisol Angelini, Patrick Gottschalk, Steven Macicek and Keith Rosenbloom. During 2024 (and through the date of filing hereof), no member of the Compensation Committee served on the board of directors of any other public company, where any officer or director of such entity also served on the Company’s Board.

<div align='center'>18</div>

PROPOSAL 2 Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Effective March 31, 2024, the Company’s Audit Committee appointed (and the Board ratified the appointment of) Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”), to serve as the Company’s independent public registered accounting firm for the year ended December 31, 2024. The Audit Committee and Board have subsequently appointed Deloitte to serve as the Company’s independent public registered accounting firm for the year ending December