Director Resignations and Appointment of New Directors
Immediately before the effective time of the merger (the “Effective Time”), each of Brandon F. Brahm, William E. Kassling, Michael V. Marn and Nickolas
Vande Steeg (each, a “Resigning Director”) resigned from the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) and from all committees of the Board on which such Resigning Director served and as director or manager of any subsidiaries of the Company.
In accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, as of the Effective Time, the Company decreased the size of its Board to ten people and each of Kirk E. Arnold, Gary D. Forsee and Tony L. White, Trane’s designees pursuant to its rights under the
Merger Agreement, was elected to the Board. Each of Gary D. Forsee and Tony L. White was appointed as a Class I director to serve until the Company’s 2021 annual meeting of stockholders or until his successor is duly elected and qualified or until
his earlier resignation or removal; and Kirk E. Arnold was appointed as a Class III director, to serve until the Company’s 2020 annual meeting of stockholders or until her successor is duly elected and qualified or until her earlier resignation or
removal.
Mr. Forsee was designated to serve on the Audit Committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”), Ms. Arnold was designated to serve on the Compensation
Committee of the Board (the “Compensation Committee”) and Mr. White was designated to serve on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board (the “Nominating Committee”). As of the Effective Time: the Audit Committee was composed of
William P. Donnelly, John Humphrey and Mr. Forsee, with Mr. Donnelly serving as chair; the Compensation Committee was composed of Joshua T. Weisenbeck, Mr. Donnelly, Marc E. Jones and Ms. Arnold, with Mr. Weisenbeck serving as chair; and the
Nominating Committee was composed of Mr. Humphrey, Peter M. Stavros, Elizabeth Centoni and Tony L. White, with Mr. Humphrey serving as chair.
Ms. Arnold, 60, is currently an Executive‐in‐Residence at General Catalyst Ventures, where she works with management teams to help scale and drive growth by
providing mentorship, operational and strategic support. She was previously chief executive officer of Data Intensity, a cloud‐based data, applications and analytics managed service provider from 2013 to 2017. Prior to that, Ms. Arnold was chief
operating officer of Avid, a technology provider in the media industry, and chief executive officer and president of Keane, Inc., then a publicly traded global services provider. She has also held senior leadership roles at Computer Sciences Corp.,
Fidelity Investments and IBM. In addition, she was founder and chief executive officer of NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider. Ms. Arnold currently serves on the boards of directors of Trane and Thomson Reuters, a
multinational media conglomerate, and formerly served on the board of directors of EnerNoc, Inc. Ms. Arnold received a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.
Mr. Forsee, 69, served as President of the four-campus University of Missouri System from 2008 to 2011. He previously served as chairman of the board (from
2006 to 2007) and chief executive officer (from 2005 to 2007) of Sprint Nextel Corporation, and chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Sprint Corporation, a global telecommunications company located in Kansas City, Missouri, from 2003
to 2005. Mr. Forsee currently serves on the boards of directors of Trane and Evergy, Inc., an investor-owned utility providing energy to custoers in Kansas and Missouri, and formerly served on the boards of directors of Great Plains Energy and
KCP&L, which merged with Westar Energy to form Evergy, Inc., and DST Systems, Inc., an IT service management company. Mr. Forsee Mr. Forsee received his Bachelor of Science in engineering and an honorary engineering and doctorate from the
Missouri University of Science and Technology (f/k/a University of Missouri-Rolla).
Mr. White, 73, served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Biosystems, Inc. (formerly Applera Corporation), a
developer, manufacturer and marketer of life science systems and genomic information products, from September 1995 until his retirement in November 2007. Mr. White currently serves on the boards of directors of Trane and CVS Health Corp, a provider
of health care services and formerly served on the board of directors of C.R. Bard, Inc., a company that designs, manufactures and sells medical, diagnostic and patient care devices. Mr. White received a bachelor of arts degree from Western Carolina
University.
For their service as a directors, each of Ms. Arnold and Messrs. Forsee and White will be entitled to receive an annual cash retainer of $75,000, payable
quarterly in arrears (prorated for any portion of a calendar quarter in which he or she commences or terminates his or her service), and an annual equity award having a fair market value of $175,000, payable in restricted stock units, which vests on
the anniversary of the grant date.
Compensation of Certain Officers
On February 27, 2020, in connection with the consummation of the Merger, the Compensation Committee: (i) approved increases to the base salaries and
target annual cash incentive bonus opportunities of certain executive officers of the Company, including Vicente Reynal, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company; Enrique Miñarro Viseras, Vice President and General Manager of the
Company’s Industrial Technologies and Services EMEIA business; and Michael A. Weatherred, Senior Vice President—Execution Excellence (IRX) of the Company and (ii) awarded transaction bonuses to certain individuals, including: Mr. Reynal; Andrew
Schiesl, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary of the Company; Mr. Miñarro Viseras; Mr. Weatherred and Emily A. Weaver, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in each case
conditioned on the consummation of the Merger. The increases in base salaries and target annual cash incentive bonus opportunities were approved in recognition of the increase in the scope of the executive officers’ responsibilities following the
consummation of the Merger and the transaction bonuses were awarded in recognition of the recipients’ efforts to bring the Merger to completion.
The base salary increases were as follows: Mr. Reynal, from $843,150 to $1,000,000; Mr. Schiesl, $460,000 to $500,000; Mr. Miñarro Viseras, from €330,000 to
€406,000 (approximately $363,033 to $446,641 based on an exchange rate of 1.1001 on February 27, 2020); and Mr. Weatherred, from $351,900 to $415,000. The increases in target annual cash bonus opportunity, expressed as a percentage of base salary,
were as follows: Mr. Reynal, from 100% to 150%; Mr. Miñarro Viseras, from 60% to 85%; and Mr. Weatherred, from 50% to 75%. The transaction bonus amounts awarded to Messrs. Reynal, Schiesl, Miñarro Viseras and Weatherred and Ms. Weaver were as
follows: $843,150 for Mr. Reynal, $375,000 for Mr. Schiesl, $374,000 for Mr. Miñarro Viseras and $311,000 for Mr. Weatherred and $100,000 for Ms. Weaver.
The information contained in Items 1.01 and 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.