SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2025-02-13

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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="if23ab72cd0854de7861a8e59a4d0dd64_77"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Univers',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER EXECUTIVE SEVERANCE PLAN</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">SEVERANCE, RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS, AND NONCOMPETITION AGREEMENT</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;1.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;This </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">Severance, Release of All Claims, and Noncompetition Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%"> (&#34;Agreement&#34;) is entered into by and between </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">Peggy I. Simmons</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">, herein after referred to as &#34;Employee&#34;, and American Electric Power Company Inc., hereinafter referred to, together with all its past, present and future affiliated, parent and&#47;or subsidiary organizations and divisions, and all past, present and future officers, directors, members, employees and agents of each, in both their individual and representative capacities, as the &#34;Company&#34;. </font></div><div style="padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;2.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline">Severance Allowance</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">. Provided the Employee timely executes, returns, and does not revoke this Agreement and continues to provide services to the Company up to and including the Termination Date (also referred to in this Agreement as a &#8220;Separation Date&#8221;), the Company shall provide the following consideration&#58; </font></div><div style="padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;to Employee (or Employee&#8217;s estate) a salary and bonus severance in the amount of $1,121,400.00 (the &#8220;Severance Amount&#8221;). The Company shall pay the Severance Amount to Employee according to the following payment schedule&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:58.5pt;padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-22.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;$599,038.46 as of the first available payroll date of the Company that coincides with or immediately follows the date the Severance Agreement becomes irrevocable pursuant to Section 15&#59;</font></div><div style="padding-left:58.5pt;padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-22.5pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:58.5pt;padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-22.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;$261,180.77 as of the first regular payroll date of the Company that coincides with or immediately follows the date that is six months after the Separation Date&#59; and</font></div><div style="padding-left:58.5pt;padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-22.5pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:58.5pt;padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-22.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;$261,180.77 in approximately equal bi-weekly installments paid over the 13 subsequent regular payroll dates of the Company following the payroll date referenced in Section 2(a)(ii).</font></div><div style="padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-right:-9pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Payment under this Section 2(a) shall be made by direct deposit, by mailing to the last address provided by Employee to the Company, or by such other reasonable method as determined by the Company. Each payment shall be subject to such deductions as required by law including, if applicable, repayment of the pay advance made to Employee on or about April 12, 2001, that is not deducted from other amounts paid or payable to Employee.</font></div><div style="padding-right:-9pt;text-alig