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Robert Biggart

Senior Vice President - General Counsel & Secretary, Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.

Bob is senior vice president, general counsel and secretary for Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.

Bob joined the Company in December 2013 and has instilled a business lawyer philosophy into Fortune Brands’ legal department, encouraging the legal team to fully understand the businesses they support and the need for taking calculated risk.

Prior to joining the Company, Bob served as senior vice president – general counsel of PepsiCo Americas Beverages, a business division of PepsiCo with over $20 billion in sales. He spent 29 years at PepsiCo where he held senior legal roles across most of its business units and geographic regions and was the lead lawyer on many of PepsiCo’s largest acquisitions and joint ventures. For more than 15 years at PepsiCo, Bob worked exclusively overseas where he handled transactions, litigation and other legal matters in more than 50 countries.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Bob spent five years with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, a New York law firm.

Bob earned a BA from Princeton University and a law degree from Fordham University School of Law.

Susan Kilsby

Susan Saltzbart Kilsby

Non-executive Chair of the Board

Susan is the non-executive, independent chair of Fortune Brands’ Board of Directors. She is also the Chair of the Executive Committee and a member of the Nominating, Environmental, Social & Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee.

Susan spent most of her career at Credit Suisse AG, holding a variety of senior positions including Managing Director and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa from 2009 until her retirement in May 2014. Her career in global investment banking also includes senior positions with Barclays de Zoete Wedd, Bankers Trust and The First Boston Corporation. She currently serves on the Board of Directors at Unilever plc, Unilever N.V., Diageo plc and BHP Group plc. Susan’s previous Board experience includes Shire plc, where she served as chair for five years.

Susan earned a BA in Economics from Wellesley College and an MBA from Yale School of Management.

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Chairman of the Board

Ronald Waters

Ronald Waters III

Ron serves as the Chair of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Nominating, Environmental, Social & Governance Committee and the Executive Committee.

Before retiring in 2010, Ron was President and Chief Executive Officer of LoJack Corporation. He also served as a director of LoJack Corporation. Ron served as Chief Operating Officer for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company from December 2003 through May 2006. He joined the company in 1999 as Chief Financial Officer and served as CFO until his promotion to Chief Operating Officer in 2003. Prior to joining the Wm. Wrigley Company, Ronald held several senior executive positions of increasing responsibility with The Gillette Company and was a Partner and Practice Leader with KPMG International. Ron currently serves on the Board of Directors of HNI Corporation and Paylocity Holding Corporation, as well as several charitable and non-public organizations.

Ron earned a BA in history and economics from Trinity College and an MS in accounting from New York University-Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

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Independent Director

A. D. Mackay

A. D. David Mackay

David serves as the Chair of the Compensation Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee.

Before retiring in 2011, David held a number of key positions at Kellogg Company in the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, and Ireland, retiring as president and chief executive officer. He was also a member of Kellogg Company's board of directors and executive management committee. David currently serves as a Director of the Clorox Company.

David received a BBA degree from Charles Stuart University, Australia.

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Independent Director

Ann Hackett

Ann Fritz Hackett

Ann is a member of the Compensation Committee, the Nominating, Environmental, Social & Governance Committee and the Executive Committee.

Ann is Partner and Co-Founder of Personal Pathways, LLC, a company providing web-based enterprise collaboration platforms since 2015. Prior to that, she founded and served as President of Horizon Consulting Group, LLC, a consulting firm that provides business strategy, organizational, and human resources advice. Before founding Horizon, she spent 11 years at Strategic Planning Associates, Inc., where she was a Vice President and Partner and served on the Management Committee. She has spent significant parts of the last 20 years living and working overseas, primarily in Europe and Africa. Ann also serves on the Board of Directors at Capital One Financial Corporation. She also is a Trustee Emerita of Dartmouth College.

She graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and earned her MBA with distinction from Stanford University.

Independent Director

John Morikis

John is a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee.

John is Chairman since January 2017 and Chief Executive Officer since January 2016 of The Sherwin-Williams Company, a global leader in the paint and coatings industry. Previously, he served as President from January 2016 until February 2019 and as Chief Operating Officer from 2006 until his promotion to Chief Executive Officer in January 2016. Prior to that, John served as President of the Paint Stores Group and has served in key positions of increasing responsibility at Sherwin-Williams since joining the company in 1984. John also serves on a number of charitable and non-public organizations.

John holds Bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Psychology from St. Joseph's College and an MBA from National Louis University.

Independent Director

David Thomas

David is the Chair of the Nominating, Environmental, Social & Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and Executive Committee.

Prior to his retirement in 2006, David held leadership positions including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer with IMS Health, Inc., the world's leading provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Prior to joining IMS Health, he spent 28 years with IBM, rising to Senior Vice President/Group Executive of the company's personal computer business. David is a director of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. and a member of the Board of Trustees of Fidelity Investments.

He holds an MS in Engineering and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florida.

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