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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 risks related to the Company's financial statements, financial reporting processes, internal controls, information technology, and cybersecurity;

◦ The Compensation Committee oversees risks related to the Company's compensation programs;

◦ The Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee oversees risks related to the Company's programs, policies, and practices related to certain sustainability and governance matters; and

◦ The Environmental, Health and Safety Committee oversees risks related to safety, health, physical security, environmental, and product stewardship matters.

Stock Ownership Requirements

• We maintain robust stock ownership requirements to align the interests of directors and shareowners.

• The stock ownership requirement for our CEO is 125,000 shares and for all other Directors is 12,500 shares (within five years of onboarding). For 2024, the stock ownership requirement was equivalent to more than four times the annual salary of our CEO and more than four times the annual cash retainer for all other Directors, based on the Company's closing stock price on December 31, 2024 of $40.86.

Board Practices

• Our Board annually conducts an evaluation of its performance, which includes a peer evaluation of each Director.

• All Directors stand for election annually.

• We maintain a majority voting policy for uncontested Director elections.

• We maintain a fully independent Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, and Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee.

<div align='center'>PROXY STATEMENT 2025 | Annual Meeting of Shareholders 9</div>

#### ELECTION OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PROPOSAL 1—Election of Twelve Director Nominees to Our Board of Directors

Our Board currently consists of 12 Directors. Each Director serves for a one-year term until a successor is duly elected and qualified, subject to the Director’s earlier death, retirement or resignation.

A shareholder who wishes to nominate a person for election as a Director must provide written notice to our Secretary in accordance with the procedures specified in Regulation 12 of our Code of Regulations (“Regulations”). Generally, the Secretary must receive the notice at our principal executive offices not less than 90 nor more than 120 calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the date on which we first mailed our proxy materials for the preceding year’s annual meeting. The notice must set forth, as to each nominee, among other things, the name, age, business address and residence address of such person, the principal occupation or employment of such person, any information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in solicitations for proxies for election of Directors pursuant to