Retired Chief Financial Officer of Ecolab Inc., a global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention and services, from 2002 to 2012. Mr. Fritze served in roles with increasing leadership responsibility before retiring as Chief Financial Officer at Ecolab, Inc., including as Senior Vice President of Finance from 2001 to 2002, Vice President and Controller from 1998 to 2001, Vice President and Treasurer, from 1995 to 1998, including a period of also serving as Acting Chief Information Officer, and Vice President and Controller of Ecolab s largest division, Ecolab U.S. Institutional Division, from 1989 to 1995. Mr. Fritze contributes public company accounting, finance, and financial reporting expertise from his service as Chief Financial Officer of Ecolab, as well as executive leadership experience gained over 32 years of service to Ecolab in a variety of roles. In these positions, Mr. Fritze s duties included responsibility for the control environment, accounting function, decision support analytics, and public company financial disclosures. Mr. Fritze also had accountability for information technology, investor relations, treasury, tax, global shared services and Global Lean Six Sigma. The Board benefits from Mr. Fritze s extensive experience with all aspects of public company financial reporting, control environment of a diverse global business and management of information technology systems. Mr. Fritze has also had extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions. Director Since: 2013. Age at the time of the Annual Meeting: 72. Board Committees: Audit (Chair), Corporate Governance. Other Board Service: Mortenson Construction, Inc. (2014-2022) (Audit Committee, Chair); St. Paul and Minnesota Foundation (2013-2021) (Audit and Finance Chair).