COOPER INC (COO)
Sector: Health Care
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Health Care
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Director information for COO
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COO | Director; Chairman of the Board | 68 | ["global business leader","CEO experience","long-range strategic planning","consumer marketing","human capital management","enterprise risk management","driving performance and sustained growth"] | ["Corporate Governance & Nominating","Organization & Compensation"] | 2026 |
Companies shown below are based on exact name match for the selected Director
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LW | Former Executive Chairman; Director | 68 | ["Former Executive Chairman, McCormick & Company Incorporated","Leadership, Operational, Strategic and International Experience and CPG Expertise","Risk & Compliance Oversight and Environmental, Sustainability & Social Responsibility Expertise","Human Capital Management Expertise"] | ["Audit & Finance","Comp & HC"] | 2026 |
| MKC | Executive Chairman of the Board | 65 | ["Enhances the diversity of the Board (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, & culture)","Strategic Leadership and Financial Literacy","Knowledge of the Food Industry","Merger, Acquisition and/or Joint Venture Expertise","Management Experience in International Operations","Senior executive experience at a publicly traded multinational company","Consumer marketing experience","General management experience in international operations","Strategic leadership of a large, complex organization"] | [] | 2024 |
| ELAN | Chairman & CEO; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | 65 | ["Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, McCormick & Company","Various leadership roles at McCormick & Company since joining in 2003","President and CEO of Zatarin’s until its acquisition by McCormick","Marketing executive with Quaker Oats Company and Mars Uncle Ben’s Company","Valuable mix of global business expertise and risk management and sustainability oversight","Deep understanding of human capital management issues","Marketing and brand building insights from prior leadership roles","Significant corporate governance experience","Serves on boards of multiple not-for-profit industry groups","Member of Business Roundtable"] | ["Compensation and Human Capital (Chair)","Corporate Governance"] | 2023 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mr. Kurzius is a highly respected global business leader who brings extensive public company leadership, including as CEO, and experience in long-range strategic planning, consumer marketing, human capital management, and enterprise risk management, and has demonstrated a strong record of driving performance and sustained growth throughout his career leading multinational organizations. Mr. Kurzius served as the Chief Executive Officer of McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE: MKC) from 2016 to 2023 and as its President from 2015 to 2022. While he was CEO, the company more than doubled its market value. He previously held roles of increasing responsibility at McCormick, including President and Chief Operating Officer from 2015 to 2016, President of McCormick s global consumer business from 2013 to 2016, Chief Administrative Officer from 2013 to 2015, President of the international business from 2008 to 2013, and President of EMEA from 2007 to 2008. Previously, Mr. Kurzius was the Chief Executive Officer of Zatarain s, where he worked for 12 years before the company was acquired by McCormick. Prior to this, Mr. Kurzius was a marketing executive with the Quaker Oats Company and Mars Inc. s Ben s Original (formerly Uncle Ben s). Mr. Kurzius currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Elanco Animal Health Inc. (NYSE: ELAN) since 2024; he has served as a member of its board as well as on its corporate governance committee, audit committee and as chair of its compensation and human capital committee since 2018. He also serves on the board of Lamb Weston (NYSE: LW), as well as on its compensation and human capital committee and nominating and corporate governance committee, since July 2025. Mr. Kurzius previously served as a member of the board of McCormick until 2025, as the Executive Chairman from 2023 to 2024 and as the Chairman from 2017 to 2023. Mr. Kurzius holds an A.B. in economics from Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude.