Company: AOS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-037641
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Company: SMITH A O CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: DEF 14A
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 for use in on- and off-highway original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vehicular applications. At Modine, Mr. Peace is responsible for overseeing Modine’s powertrain cooling solutions, advanced thermal solutions and stationary power cooling solutions. He has held this position since 2022 and before that was vice president, commercial industrial solutions at Modine from 2021 to 2022. From 2019 to 2021, Mr. Peace served as a strategy advisor for AIP LLC, working with various private equity firms supporting their investment thesis. Mr. Peace served as senior vice president, emerging business operations, at Republic Services, which provides nonhazardous waste management services for commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers, from 2017 to 2019, where he also led Republic’s sustainability initiatives driving forward environmental, social and governance issues. Mr. Peace held various leadership roles at W.W. Grainger from 2013 to 2017, the last of which was vice president, specialty brands, M&A and Brazil operations. Mr. Peace joined General Electric in 1990 and served for 23 years in a number of roles, culminating in becoming president and CEO for Latin America, consumer and industrial business in 2005, and subsequently being promoted to president of chemicals and monitoring solutions business for GE Water in 2008 where he served until 2013. Mr. Peace has been a director of Essentra plc since 2021, where he serves on the Nomination, ESG, and Audit & Risk Committees. A third-party search firm recommended Mr. Peace to the Nominating and Governance Committee, which considered Mr. Peace and recommended to the Board that Mr. Peace be nominated as a director. |     | Skills and Qualifications: Mr. Peace is a seasoned executive with extensive experience leading global manufacturing and commercial operations. He is knowledgeable about complex international operations and also has extensive experience in sustainability and mergers/acquisitions that benefit our company. Mr. Peace also brings racial diversity to our Board. |

2025 Proxy Statement 11

GOVERNANCE OF OUR COMPANY

The Board of Directors

Our business is managed under the direction and oversight of the Board of Directors, who are elected by the stockholders. Directors meet their responsibilities by participating in meetings of the Board of Directors and Board Committees on which they sit, through communication with our chairman and chief executive officer and other officers and employees, by consulting with our independent registered public accounting firm and other third parties, by reviewing materials provided to