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MASCO 2018  |  CHAIRMAN’S AND PRESIDENT’S LETTER

MASCO 2020  

  A LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF OUR BOARD

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A LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF OUR BOARD

Masco Corporation

17450 College Parkway

Livonia, MI 48152

313-274-7400

  

www.masco.com

March 29, 201827, 2020

Dear Stockholder:

You are cordially invitedOn behalf of our entire Board of Directors, I am pleased to invite you to attend Masco Corporation’s Annual Meeting of StockholdersStockholders. Our meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Friday,Wednesday, May 11, 201813, 2020 at our new corporate officesoffice in Livonia, Michigan. The following pages contain information regarding the meeting schedule and the matters proposed for your consideration and vote. Following our formal meeting, we expect tomanagement will provide a review of our operations and we will respond to your questions.

Board Oversight of Our Annual Meeting agenda again includesStrategy

To optimize the effectiveness of our Board, we engage with management throughout the year to understand and oversee our Company’s strategic objectives, which focus on driving the full potential of our businesses, leveraging opportunities across our portfolio and actively managing our portfolio. Annually, we hold a strategy session with management to discuss the Company’s execution of these objectives and our Company’s plans to drive long-term stockholder value. In 2019, to provide our Board with external perspectives, we supplemented our strategy session with presentations from an advisoryinvestment bank and a housing industry expert. At Board meetings throughout the year, management also provides updates on the progress toward achieving our strategy. The Board also sees our Company’s strategy and corporate culture in action when leaders of our businesses present their specific growth objectives to us at Board meetings and when we visit one business unit each year to engage with its broader leadership team. This past year our directors visited our Hansgrohe business unit facilities in Germany.

“say-on-pay”Board Composition and Refreshment

Our Board is comprised of eleven directors who bring a diverse set of skills and experience that promote active and engaged discussions which ensures an effective and highly functioning Board. Our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee regularly reviews our Board’s composition to ensure alignment with our long-term strategy. We also have performed an annual Board self-evaluation for a number of years. In 2019, our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee reviewed our Board’s self-evaluation process and we determined to enhance the process to includeone-on-one vote to approvediscussions between me, as the compensation paidChair of our Board, and each individual director. This focus on board composition and self-evaluation has brought a valued balance of director tenure that brings both fresh perspectives and deep historical knowledge of our Company to our named executive officers. Board’s role as stewards of your investment in Masco Corporation. We will continue to focus on maintaining an appropriate balance of tenure, skills, experience and diversity, along with ensuring that our Board continues to conduct itself effectively.


A LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF OUR BOARD   

  MASCO 2020

Commitment toPay-for-Performance

We believe that our continuedOrganization and Compensation Committee has demonstrated a consistent commitment to developing and overseeing executive compensation programs that align our executive management team’s interests with delivering strong financial performance and driving long-term stockholder value. Our efforts to enhance ourpay-for-performance practices resulted in 98%95% of the votes cast last year in favor of the compensation paid to our named executive officers. During 2017, we also continuedIn 2019, approximately 87% of our robust stockholder engagement program by reaching out to our largest stockholders in both the spring andCEO’s target compensation consisted of performance-based pay. In addition, as discussed in the fall to discuss a broad range ofCompensation Discussion and Analysis, we have incorporated numerous best practices into our executive compensation programs.

We Value Your Support

On behalf of our entire Board, I thank you for your continued support of Masco Corporation and governance topics.

Effective at our Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Mary Ann Van Lokeren, who has served Mascoyour confidence in us as a director since 1997, will be retiring from our Board. We thank Ms. Van Lokeren for her serviceBoard members. Your vote is very important to us, and express our sincerest appreciation and gratitude for her dedication, contributions and leadership during her years with us.

WeI urge you to carefully consider the information in theread this proxy statement regardingstatement. Voting instructions for the proposals to be presented at our Annual Meeting. Your vote on these proposals is important, regardless of whether or not you are able to attend the Annual Meeting. Voting instructionsMeeting can be found on the enclosed proxy card. Please submit your vote today by internet, telephone or mail.

On behalf of our entire Board of Directors, we thank you for your continued support of Masco Corporation, and we look forward to seeing you on May 11.

Sincerely,

 

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J. Michael Losh

Chairman of the Board

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Keith J. Allman

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

OUR 2018 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS WILL BE HELD AT OUR NEW CORPORATE

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J. Michael Losh

Chair of the Board

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OFFICES, WHICH ARE LOCATED AT 17450 COLLEGE PARKWAY, LIVONIA, MI 48152

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS  |  MASCO 2018

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MASCO 2020  

 

 

MASCO CORPORATION  NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

Notice of Annual Meeting

of Stockholders

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MASCO CORPORATION

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

Stockholders of record at the close of business on March 16, 20182020 are entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement of the meeting. Due to the public health concerns relating to COVID-19, we are monitoring the advisability of holding our Annual Meeting solely by means of remote communication or adjourning or postponing the meeting. If it is not possible or advisable to hold our Annual Meeting at the time, date or place as originally planned, we will announce any changes, which may include details on how to participate in a remote meeting, in advance via press release. We would file a copy of any such press release with the SEC as additional proxy solicitation materials and post the press release on our website atwww.masco.com. Whether or not you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, you can ensure that your shares are represented at the meeting by promptly voting by internet or by telephone, or by completing, signing, dating and returning your proxy card in the enclosed postage prepaid envelope. Instructions for each of these methods and the control number that you will need are provided on the proxy card. You may withdraw your proxy before it is exercised by following the directions in the proxy statement. Alternatively, you may vote in person at the meeting.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

 

 

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Kenneth G. Cole

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

 

         

DATE:

May 13, 2020

PLACE:

Masco Corporation Corporate Office

17450 College Parkway

Livonia, Michigan 48152

TIME:

9:30 a.m. Eastern Time

WEBSITE:

www.masco.com

 

Date:

Place:

Time:

Website:

May 11, 2018

Masco Corporation Corporate Office, 17450 College Parkway, Livonia,
Michigan 48152

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

www.masco.com

The purposes of the Annual Meeting are:

 

1. To elect threefour Class IIIII directors;

 

2. To consider and act upon a proposal to approve the compensation paid to our named executive officers;

 

3. To ratify the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent auditors for 2018;2020; and

 

4. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

 

The Company recommends that you vote as follows:

 

  FOR each Class IIIII director nominee;

 

  FOR the approval of the compensation paid to our named executive officers; and

 

  FOR the selection of PriceWaterhouseCoopersPricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent auditors for 2018.2020.

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS FOR THE STOCKHOLDER MEETING TO BE HELD ON MAY 11, 2018:13, 2020: THIS PROXY STATEMENT AND THE MASCO CORPORATION 20172019 ANNUAL REPORT TO STOCKHOLDERS, WHICH INCLUDES THE COMPANY’S ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM10-K, ARE AVAILABLE AT:

http://www.ezodproxy.com/masco/20182020

THE COMPANY WILL PROVIDE A COPY OF ITS ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM10-K, WITHOUT CHARGE, UPON A STOCKHOLDER’S WRITTEN REQUEST TO: INVESTOR RELATIONS, MASCO CORPORATION, 17450 COLLEGE PARKWAY, LIVONIA, MICHIGAN 48152.

 



MASCO 2018  |  2018 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY

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2020 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY   

 

 

 

2018 Proxy

Statement Summary  MASCO 2020

 

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2020 PROXY

STATEMENT SUMMARY

This summary highlights information to assist you in reviewing the proposals you will be voting on at our 20182020 Annual Meeting. This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider; you should read the entire proxy statement carefully before voting. The proposals for our Annual Meeting are the election of our Class IIIII Directors, the approval of the compensation paid to our named executive officers (who we generally refer to as our “executive officers” in this proxy statement), and the ratification of the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent auditors for 2018.2020.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Our Board of Directors is committed to maintaining our high standards of ethical business conduct and corporate governance principles and practices. Our corporate governance practices include:

 

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Robust Stockholder Engagement - We reach out to our largest stockholders each spring and fall to discuss a broad range of executive compensation and governance topics.

 

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Board RefreshmentComposition - Seven new independent directors have joined our Board since 2012, and in 2015 our Board appointed a new Chairman of the Board and new Chairs— Three of our Board Committees.

directors are racially and/or gender diverse, and we have a balanced range of director tenure.

 

 ü 

Organization and Talent Review - Our Organization and Compensation Committee performs an annual review of our talent strategy and CEO and senior management succession planning.

 

 ü 

Board Self-Evaluation — Annually, our directors review and assess the effectiveness of our Board through a robust self-evaluation process, which includes an anonymous survey andone-on-one discussions between each director and the Chair of our Board.

ü

Political Contribution Oversight - Our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee oversees our political contributions in accordance with our Political Contribution Policy.

 

 ü 

Separation of our CEO and ChairmanChair of the Board - The positions of our CEO and Chairmanthe Chair of theour Board are currently separated; our Chairmanthe Chair of theour Board is an independent director.

 

 ü Board Self-Evaluation - Annually, our directors review the effectiveness of our Board through a self-evaluation process.

Majority Voting for our Directors - In uncontested elections, our director nominees must receive more than 50% of the votes cast to be elected to our Board.

 

 ü 

Director Independence - Ten— Nine of our twelveeleven directors are independent, and all of the members of our Audit, Organization and Compensation, and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committees are independent.

 


2018 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY  |  MASCO 2018

MASCO 2020  

  2020 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY

 

DIRECTOR NOMINEES

The Class IIIII Director Nominees for our Board of Directors are:

 

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Mark R. AlexanderKeith J. Allman

J. Michael Losh

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2014

 

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2003

POSITION:SeniorOur President and Chief Executive Officer, since 2014

POSITION:Retired Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Campbell
Soup Company and President of Americas
Simple Meals and Beverages, Campbell Soup
Company (through April 2, 2018)

General Motors Corporation, a global automotive company

INDEPENDENT: No

INDEPENDENT:Yes

INDEPENDENT:COMMITTEES: YesNone

COMMITTEES: Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee (Chair); Organization and Compensation Committee

 

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Christopher A. O’Herlihy

Charles K. Stevens, III

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2013

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2018

POSITION: Vice Chairman of Illinois Tool Works Inc., a global diversified industrial manufacturer of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses, since 2015

POSITION:Retired Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of General Motors Company, a global automotive company

INDEPENDENT:Yes

INDEPENDENT:Yes

COMMITTEES: Audit Committee; Organization and Compensation Committee

COMMITTEES: Audit Committee; Corporate
Governance and Nominating Committee

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Richard A. Manoogian

DIRECTOR SINCE:1964

POSITION: Our Chairman Emeritus




INDEPENDENT:No

COMMITTEES: None

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John C. Plant

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2012

POSITION: Retired Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer of TRW Automotive
Holdings Corp.

INDEPENDENT:Yes

COMMITTEES:Audit Committee; Corporate
Governance and Nominating Committee

If elected, each would serve for a three-year term concluding at our 20212023 Annual Meeting.

BOARD REFRESHMENT

We have had significant Board refreshment over the past several years. Seven new independent directors have joined our Board since 2012, two of whom joined since last year, which, combined with our directors who have experience with us, provides a desirable balance of deep, historical understanding of our Company and new and diverse perspectives.

STOCKHOLDER OUTREACH

In determining our executive compensation and corporate governance practices, our Board believes it is important to consider feedback from our stockholders. During 2017,In 2019, we continued our robust stockholder engagement program through which we encourage certain of our stockholdersand requested the opportunity to engage in dialogue with us twice per year. During the year, we reached out to stockholders holding approximately 45%50% of our outstanding shares, andshares. Of the shareholders with which we engaged, we discussed with certain of these stockholders an overviewour Board’s oversight of our business strategies,strategy and risk, board composition and refreshment, corporate sustainability practices and our annual and long-term performanceperformance-based compensation programs. We received positive feedback from the stockholders with whom we spoke, particularly regarding the structure of our compensation programsBoard’s process for overseeing our Company’s strategy and practices, which was reflective of the strong support we have received for oursay-on-pay proposal over the past five years.risk. We provide reports on the feedback we receive to our Organization and Compensation Committee (“Compensation Committee”) and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee (“Governance Committee”).

 



MASCO 2018  |  2018 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY

2020 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY   

  MASCO 2020

 

20172019 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

WeOur continuing operations delivered solid financial results in 2017.2019 despite the challenges of higher input costs for many of our products and slower growth in our overall end markets. Our reported sales for the full year increased 4%1% to $7.6 billion,$6.7 billion. This sales growth was largely driven by our operatingsuccessful pricing actions as we mitigated the impact of the imposition of tariffs. Operating profit for the full year increased 11%by 1% to $1.2$1.1 billion and we increased our operating profit marginearnings per share from continuing operations grew 7% to 15.3% from 14.3%. Our sales growth was driven by our longstanding commitment to customer-focused innovation and successful new programs. Our operating profit growth demonstrates our strong operating leverage and continued improvements in cost productivity.$2.20 per share.

In addition, we executed and delivered on our strategy to delivering salesbecome a more stable, less cyclical and profit growth,higher return building products company through the divestitures of our windows businesses in 2017November 2019 and our cabinetry business, which closed in February 2020. Lastly, we returnedcontinued to implement our balanced capital to our stockholdersallocation strategy by repurchasing $331$896 million in shares of our stock, and increasing our annual dividend for the sixth year in a row and reducing our debt by approximately 5%. Finally, we continued the execution of our strategy to position us for future growth by focusing on leveraging opportunities across our businesses, driving the full potential of our core businesses and actively managing our portfolio.$201 million.

20172019 EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Based on our strong financial performance in 2017,2019, although we exceededmet the threshold, we did not achieve the target goals for operating profit goal or our annual and long-term performance-based compensation programs.working capital as a percent of sales goal.

20172019 Annual Performance Program

Under our annual performance program, we pay cash bonuses and grant restricted stock units to our executive officers if we meet our performance goals for operating profit and working capital as a percent of sales. The following tables reflect our 2017 target goals, our2019 performance relative to our target goals and the compensation we paid to our executive officers under our 20172019 annual performance program:

 

     

Performance Metric

  

Target

 

    

Performance
(as adjusted)

 

    

Weighted
Performance
Percentage

 

    Performance

(as adjusted)

  Percent of Target
Achieved
  Weighted
Performance
Percentage
     

Operating Profit (in millions)

  td,127

 

   td,185

 

   

 

119%

 

 

   td,263  82%  77%
  

Working Capital as a Percent of Sales

  

12.8%

 

    

13.9%

 

    

 

119%

 

 

    15.8%  60%   

 

See “Our 20172019 Annual Performance Program” in our Compensation Discussion and Analysis for a description of our calculation of operating profit and working capital as a percent of sales performance.

 

     

Name

  

Cash
Bonus ($)

 

   

Restricted
Stock
Award ($)

 

   

Total 2017
Annual
Performance
Compensation
($)

 

   Amount of Cash
Bonus ($)
  Value of Restricted
Stock Unit Award ($)
  Total 2019 Annual
Performance
Compensation ($)
     

Keith J. Allman

  2,144,100

 

   2,143,996

 

   4,288,096

 

   1,429,000  1,587,977  3,016,977
     

John G. Sznewajs

  

609,800

 

   

609,621

 

   

1,219,421

 

   418,600  418,739  837,339
     

Joseph B. Gross

  297,400  297,538  594,938
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

  468,600

 

   468,486

 

   937,086

 

   327,900  327,957  655,857
     

Kenneth G. Cole

  

344,200

 

   

344,202

 

   

688,402

 

 
   

Christopher K. Kastner

  265,100

 

   264,998

 

   530,098

 

 

Jai Shah

  303,200  303,241  606,441


MASCO 2020  

  2020 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY

2015-20172017-2019 Long-Term PerformanceIncentive Program

Under our Long Term Cash2017-2019 Long-Term Incentive Program (“LTCIP”LTIP”), our executive officers had the opportunity to earn a cashan equity-based performance award if we meetachieved a return on invested capital performance goal for aover the three-year period. The following tables reflect our target return on invested capital (“ROIC”) goal for the 2015-2017 LTCIP2017-2019 LTIP performance period, our performance relative to our target goal and the compensation we paid to our executive officers:

 

     

Performance Metric

  

Target

 

   

Performance
(as adjusted)

 

   

Performance
Percentage

 

   Performance  

(as adjusted)  

  Percent of Target  

Achieved  

     

Return on Invested Capital

  12.0%

 

   13.6%

 

   132%

 

   15.7%  134%

 

See “Our Long TermLong-Term Incentive Program” in our Compensation Discussion and Analysis for a description of our calculation of ROIC performance.



2018 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY  |  MASCO 2018

 

 

Name

  

LTCIP for2017-2019  LTIP-  


2015-2017Stock Earned ($)

 

Keith J. Allman

  2,178,000

3,390,180
 

John G. Sznewajs

  

618,800

973,611
 

   Richard A. O’Reagan

Joseph B. Gross

  445,500

635,123
 

   Kenneth G. Cole

Richard A. O’Reagan

  

313,200

734,035
 

   Christopher K. Kastner

Jai Shah

  231,000

512,338

OUR COMPENSATION PRACTICES

During 2017,2019, our Compensation Committee reviewed our compensation programs and practices to ensure our interests and the objectives for our compensation programs are aligned. At our 20172019 Annual Meeting, 98%95% of the votes cast on oursay-on-pay proposal approved the compensation we paid to our executive officers. Although thesay-on-pay vote is advisory andnon-binding, our Compensation Committee believes this approval percentage indicates strong support for our continued efforts to enhance ourpay-for-performance practices, and our Compensation Committee concluded that our stockholders endorse our current executive compensation programs and practices.

Our compensation practices include:

 Long-Term Incentives - Our compensation programs are weighted toward long-term incentives. We give approximately equal weight to performance-based restricted stock, stock options and our three-year LTCIP. In 2017, we modified our long-term incentive program by replacing the cash award with performance-based restricted stock units (“PRSUs”).

 Five-Year Vestingfor Equity Awards - Our performance-based restricted stock and stock option awards vest over five years, which is longer than typical market practice.

 Long-Term Performance Program - A significant portion of our executive officers’ compensation opportunity is based on the achievement of a long-term performance goal.

 Clawback Policy - If we restate our financial statements, other than as a result of changes to accounting rules or regulations, our clawback policy allows us to recover incentive compensation paid to our executives in the three-year period prior to the restatement, regardless of whether misconduct caused the restatement.

 Stock Ownership Requirements - We have minimum stock ownership requirements for our executive officers, including requiring our CEO to own stock valued at six times his base salary. As of December 31, 2017, each of our executive officers met his or her stock ownership requirement.

 Double-TriggerVesting - We have double-trigger vesting of equity on a change in control.

 Tally Sheets and Risk Analysis - Our Compensation Committee uses tally sheets and analyzes risk in setting executive compensation.

 Competitive Analysis - On an annual basis, our Compensation Committee reviews a market analysis of executive compensation paid by our peer companies and published survey data forcomparably-sized companies.

 Limited Perquisites - We provide limited perquisites to our executive officers.
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Long-Term Incentives —Our compensation programs are weighted toward long-term incentives. We give approximately equal weight to restricted stock units, stock options and our three-year incentive program. In 2017, we modified our three-year incentive program by replacing the cash award with performance-based restricted stock units (“PRSUs”).

 


ü

Performance-Based Annual Restricted Stock Units — Our annual grant of restricted stock units is based on our executive officers’ target opportunity and the achievement of our performance goals under our annual performance program.

ü

Long-Term Performance Program— A significant portion of our executive officers’ compensation opportunity is based on the achievement of a three-year performance goal.

ü

Clawback Policy— If we restate our financial statements, other than as a result of changes to accounting rules or regulations, our clawback policy allows us to recover incentive compensation paid to our executives in the three-year period prior to the restatement, regardless of whether misconduct caused the restatement.

ü

Stock Ownership Requirements — We have minimum stock ownership requirements for our executive officers, including requiring our CEO to own stock valued at six times his base salary. As of December 31, 2019, each of our executive officers met his or her stock ownership requirement.

ü

Double-TriggerVesting — We have double-trigger vesting of equity on a change in control.

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Tally Sheets and Risk Assessment — Our Compensation Committee uses tally sheets, and oversees a risk assessment to evaluate whether our compensation programs present undue risk to us.

 


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2020 PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY   

  MASCO 2020

 

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Competitive Analysis — On an annual basis, our Compensation Committee reviews a market analysis of executive compensation paid by our peer companies and published survey data forcomparably-sized companies.

ü

Limited Perquisites — We provide limited perquisites to our executive officers.

Our compensation practices donot include:

 

 × 

Excise TaxGross-Ups - We have eliminated the excise taxgross-up feature on all of the equity grants made since 2012.

 

 × 

Hedging or Pledging - Our policy prohibits executives and directors from hedging our stock and from making future pledges of our stock.

 

 × 

Contractual Termination ArrangementsEmployment Agreements - We have no change in control agreements, contractual severance agreements or employment agreements providing for severance payments with our executive officers.

 

 × 

Option Repricing - Our equity plan prohibits the repricing of options without stockholder approval.


 


MASCO 2020  

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

MASCO 2018  |  

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

 

PART I - I—CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

  

Director and Director Nominees

  

 

1

 

Director Nominees for Class IIIII (Term Expiring at the Annual Meeting in 2021)2023)

  

 

2

 

Class III Directors (Term Expiring at the Annual Meeting in 2021)

4

 

Class I Directors (Term Expiring at the Annual Meeting in 2019)2022)

6

Board of Directors

8

Structure of our Board of Directors

  

 

4

Class II Directors (Term Expiring at the Annual Meeting in 2020)

6

Board of Directors

8

 

Leadership Structure of our Board of Directors

  

 

8

 

Director Independence

  

 

9

 

Board Refreshment

  

 

9

 

Board Membership and Composition

  

 

10

 

Board Self-Evaluation

11

 

Risk Oversight

  

 

12

11

 

Board Meetings and Attendance

  

 

13

11

 

Communications with our Board of Directors

  

 

13

11

 

Committees of our Board of Directors

  

 

14

12

 

Director Compensation Program

  

 

17

15

 

Related Person Transactions

  

 

19

17

 

Proposal 1: Election of Class IIIII Directors Nominees

  

 

19

20

 

PART II - II—COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

  

Compensation Discussion and Analysis Summary

  

 

21

20

 

Compensation Decisions in 20172019

  

 

24

 

Our 20172019 Financial Performance

  

 

24

 

How We Performed Against our Performance Compensation Goals

  

 

24

 

Our 20172019 Annual Performance Program

  

 

24

 

Our Long Term Incentive Program

  

 

26

 

Stock Options Granted in 20172019

  

 

29

 

Other Components of our Executive Compensation Program

  

 

29

 

Our Executive Compensation Program Highlights

  

 

30

31

 

We Provide Long-Term Equity Incentives

  

 

30

31

 

We Have a Long-Term Performance Program

  

 

31

 

We Can Clawback Incentive Compensation

  

 

31

 

We Require Minimum Levels of Stock Ownership by our Executives

  

 

31

 

We AdoptedOur Equity Awards Have Double-Trigger Change of Control Provisions for our Equity Awards

  

 

31

32

 

Our Compensation Committee ConductsOversees an Annual Compensation Risk Evaluation

  

 

32

 

The Structure of ourOur Compensation Programs EncouragesEncourage Executive Retention and ProtectsProtect Us

  

 

32

 

We Prohibit Excise TaxGross-Up Payments

  

 

32

33

 

We Prohibit Hedging and Pledging

  

 

32

33

 

We Do Not Have Contractual TerminationEmployment Agreements

  

 

33

 

Our Annual Compensation Review Process

  

 

33

 

Annual Management Talent Review and Development Process

  

 

33

 

Compensation Data Considered by our Compensation Committee

  

 

33

 

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Corporate GovernanceCORPORATE

GOVERNANCE

This section of our proxy statement provides information on the qualifications and experience of our director nominees and incumbent directors, the structurecomposition of our Board, the structure and responsibilities of our Board committees, and other important corporate governance matters.

DIRECTORDIRECTORS AND DIRECTOR NOMINEES

Our Board is divided into three classes. Followingcurrently composed of eleven directors, including nine independent directors. Our directors possess a wide array of skills and experience that provide a strong source of strategic oversight, advice and guidance to our management team. The following director skills matrix highlights the electionbalanced mix of skills and experience that are most relevant and important to our Company. The skills and experience identified for each of ournon-employee directors are those we believe are key and unique to each director’s contribution to our Board. This matrix is not meant to encompass or reflect all of the Class III directors nominated at this Annual Meeting,skills and experience possessed by each director. See the termsfollowing pages for a full biography of officeeach of our Class I, Classdirectors.

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Business Operations M&A Risk Management Finance and Accounting Product Innovation International Business Manufacturing Marketing and Brand Management Talent Management

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DIRECTOR NOMINEES FOR CLASS II and Class III directors will expire

(Term Expiring at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders in 2019, 2020 and 2021, respectively, or when their respective successors are elected and qualified.

In addition to meeting the criteria that are described below under “Board Membership and Composition,” each of our director nominees and each continuing director brings a strong and unique background and set of skills to our Board. As a result, our Board as a whole possesses competence and experience in a wide variety of areas.2023)

 

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Keith J. Allman

J. Michael Losh

AGE: 57

AGE:73

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2014

DIRECTOR SINCE:2003

POSITION: Our President and Chief Executive Officer, since 2014

POSITION: Retired Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of General Motors Corporation, a global automotive company

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Mr. Allman brings to our Board strong business leadership skills,hands-on operational experience with our businesses and valuable insight into our Company’s culture. He played an integral role in developing our strategies to strengthen our brands and improve our execution, which has helped to provide the foundation for the current direction of our Company. His key leadership positions within our Company have given him deep knowledge of all aspects of our business, and he possesses a significant understanding of, and experience with, complex operations as well as company-specific customer expertise.

Mr. Losh has strong leadership skills gained through significant executive leadership positions and through his service on boards of other publicly-held companies in various industries. His current activities provide him with valuable exposure to developments in board oversight responsibilities, corporate governance, risk management, accounting and financial reporting, which enhances his service to us as the Chair of our Board. In addition, Mr. Losh has experience with and understands complex international financial transactions. He possesses substantial finance and accounting expertise gained through his experience as Chief Financial Officer of a large organization and through his service on other boards and audit committees.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 Masco Corporation:

 Group President (2011-2014)

 President, Delta Faucet (2007-2011)

 Executive Vice President, Builder Cabinet Group (2004-2007)

 Served in various management positions of increasing responsibility at Merillat Industries (1998-2003)

 Director of Oshkosh Corporation

 Director of Aon plc, Cardinal Health, Inc., H.B. Fuller Company (through April 2, 2020), Prologis (through April 29, 2020) and Amesite Inc.

 Former director of CareFusion Corporation and TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.

 Served for 36 years in various capacities at General Motors Corporation until his retirement in 2000

 

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Christopher A. O’Herlihy

Charles K. Stevens, III

AGE: 56

AGE: 60

DIRECTOR SINCE:2013

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2018

POSITION: Vice Chairman of Illinois Tool Works Inc., a global diversified industrial manufacturer of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses, since 2015

 

 

POSITION: Retired Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of General Motors Company, a global automotive company

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

 

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

    Growth      

Mr. O’Herlihy joined Illinois Tool Works Inc. in 1989. In his over 30 years with Illinois Tool Works, he has held several executive positions through which he has acquired extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of business, including business strategy, international business operations, mergers and acquisitions, emerging markets, financial performance and structure, legal matters, human resources and talent management. His current responsibilities include developing and executing that company’s overall corporate growth strategy. He brings to our Board strategic insight and understanding of complex business and manufacturing operations, as well as a valuable perspective on developing innovative products, gained through his experience with a multi-billion dollar diversified global organization.

 

 

    Risk      

Mr. Stevens joined General Motors Company in 1983 with the Buick Motor Division. In his over 30 years with General Motors Company, Mr. Stevens acquired significant leadership experience in financial and accounting operations. His extensive background and expertise provide to our management

    Marketing and

    brand      

Board a valuable understanding of finance, financial operations, international financial matters, risk evaluation and management,

mergers and acquisitions and consumer goods. His past responsibilities include being a vital contributor to developing and executing business strategies to drive profitable growth, which benefit our Board as it oversees our strategy.

 

    Manufacturing      

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 Illinois Tool Works Inc.:

 Executive Vice President, with worldwide responsibility for Illinois Tool Works’ Food Equipment Group (2010-2015)

 Group President - Food Equipment Group Worldwide (2010)

 Group President - Food Equipment Group International (2009-2010)

 For over 30 years, served in various positions of increasing responsibility, including as Group President of the Polymers and Fluids Group

 

 Director of Eastman Chemical Company, Flex, Ltd. and Tenneco Inc.

    Global       General Motors Company:

    operations       Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (2014-2018)

 Chief Financial Officer of GM North America (2010-2014)

    Corporate       Interim Chief Financial Officer of GM South America (2011-2013)

    governance       Chief Financial Officer of GM de Mexico (2008-2010)

 Chief Financial Officer of GM Canada (2006-2008)

 For more than 30 years, served in various positions of increasing responsibility, including several leadership positions with GM’s Asia Pacific region including China, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand

    board oversight      

    Talent      

    management      

    Portfolio      

    strategy      

    Business      

    development      

    and M&A      

    Innovation      

    Legal      

    and      

    compliance      

    Government      

    relations      

    Executive      

    compensation 

 

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DIRECTOR NOMINEES FOR CLASS III DIRECTORS

(Term Expiring at the Annual Meeting in 2021)

 

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Mark R. Alexander

Richard A. Manoogian

AGE: 5355

AGE:83

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2014

DIRECTOR SINCE: 1964

POSITION:

•  Senior Vice President of Campbell Soup Company, a manufacturer and marketer of branded convenience Chief Executive Officer, Icelandic Provisions, Inc., an Icelandic dairy products company, since 2010 (through April 2, 2018)

•  President of Americas Simple Meals and Beverages, Campbell Soup Company, since 2015 (through April 2, 2018)2019

 

POSITION: Our Chairman Emeritus, since 2012

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

AsRELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Through his experience as a current CEO and as the former President of Campbell Soup Company’s largest division, Mr. Alexander brings to our Board strong leadership skills and experience in developing and executing business growth strategies.strategies, including through innovation and mergers and acquisitions. His currentpast business responsibilities include investing in brand-building, innovation and expanded distribution, which correspond to areas of focus at our business operations. His extensive international experience with consumer branded products and his background in marketing and customer relations also provide our Board with expertise and insight as we leverage our consumer brands in the global market.

 

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

•  Campbell Soup Company:

•  President of Campbell North America (2012-2015), Campbell International (2010-2012) and Asia Pacific(2006-2009)

•  Chief Customer Officer and President – North America Baking & Snacking (2009-2010)

•  Served in various marketing, sales and management roles in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia since 1989

•  Member of the Board of Governors of GS1 U.S., anot-for-profit information standards organization

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Richard A. Manoogian

AGE:81

DIRECTOR SINCE: 1964

POSITION:

Chairman Emeritus, since 2012

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Mr. Manoogian was instrumental in the dramatic growth of Masco to become a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of branded home improvement and building products. His experience in navigating our Company through various phases of its transformation and diversification provides our Board with unique and extensive knowledge of our Company’s history and strategies. As a long-term leader at Masco, Mr. Manoogian possesses firsthand knowledge of our operations as well as a deep understanding of the residential repair and remodeling and new home construction industries.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 Campbell Soup Company:

 Senior Vice President (2009-2018)

 President of Americas Simple Meals and Beverages (2015-2018)

 President of Campbell North America (2012-2015), Campbell International (2010-2012) and Asia Pacific (2006-2009)

 Chief Customer Officer and President - North America Baking & Snacking (2009-2010)

 Served in various marketing, sales and management roles in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia since 1989

 

 

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 Our Chairman of the Board (1985-2012)

 Masco Corporation:

 Executive Chairman (2007-2009)

 Chief Executive Officer (1985-2007)

 Elected President in 1968 and Vice President in 1964

 Director of Ford Motor Company (2001-2014)

 

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John C. Plant

AGE: 66

AGE: 64

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2012

POSITION:

Retired Chairman of the Board and ChiefCo-Chief Executive Officer, of TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.Howmet Aerospace Inc., a diversified automotiveglobal supplier

of engineered metal products, (effective April 1, 2020)

 

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Based on his leadership positions with multi-billion dollar diversified global companies, Mr. Plant brings to our Board strategic insight and understanding of complex operations as well as a valuable perspective of international business. He understands how to manage a company through economic cycles and major transactions. He also has a strong background in finance and extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of business, including operations, business development matters, mergers and acquisitions, financial performance and structure, legal matters and human resources.

 

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 Director of Jabil Circuit, Inc.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 Chief Executive Officer (2019-2020) and Chairman of the Board (2017-2020) of Arconic Inc. (formerly Alcoa Inc.); Director of Jabil Circuit, Inc. and Gates Corporation

 TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.:

 Chairman of the Board (2011-2015)

 President and Chief Executive Officer and Director (2003-2015)

 Co-member of the Chief Executive Office of TRW Inc. and the President and Chief Executive Officer of the automotive business of TRW Inc. (2001-2003)

 Director Emeritus of the Automotive Safety Council

 Director of Gates Industrial Corporation plc (2017-2019)

 


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CLASS I DIRECTORS

(Term Expiring at the Annual Meeting in 2019)2022)

 

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Marie A. Ffolkes

Donald R. Parfet

AGE: 4647

AGE: 67

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2017

POSITION:

•  President, Industrial Gases, Americas of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., since 2015

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

As President, Industrial Gases, Americas of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Ms. Ffolkes is responsible for leading the strategy implementation and profitability of the company’s industrial gases operations in North America and South America. Ms. Ffolkes has strong leadership skills in areas important to Masco’s performance including, operations, finance, international markets, marketing and personnel.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

•  Tenneco:

•  Global Vice President and General Manager, Ride Performance Group (2013-2015)

•  Vice President and General Manager, Global Elastomers(2011-2013)

•  Johnson Controls International plc (formerly, Johnson Controls):

•  Vice President & General Manager South America Region, Automotive Group (2010 – 2011)

•  Vice President and General Manager,Hyundai-Kia Customer Business Unit (2008 – 2010)

•  Global Vice President, Japan (2006 - 2008)

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Donald R. Parfet

AGE:65

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2012

POSITION: Chief Executive Officer, TriMark USA, LLC, a provider of design services, equipment and supplies to the food service industry, since January 2020

POSITION:

•  Managing Director, Apjohn Group, LLC, a business development company, since 2000

•  General Partner, Apjohn Ventures Fund, Limited Partnership, a venture capital fund, since 2003

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Through her experience as a current CEO and as the former President, Industrial Gases, Americas for Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Ms. Ffolkes brings to our Board extensive experience in developing and leading strategy implementation and driving profitability. Ms. Ffolkes’ strong leadership experience allows her to provide valuable contributions and perspectives to our Board in areas important to our performance including operations, finance, international markets, marketing and personnel.

As an executive with responsibilities for numerous global businesses, Mr. Parfet brings extensive financial and operating experience to our Board, particularly in areas of financial and corporate staff management and senior operational practices for multiple global business units. His experience in business development and venture capital firms provides our Board with a valued perspective on growth and strategy. He is also experienced in leading strategic planning, risk assessment, human resource planning and financial planning and control.controls. His global operating experience, strong financial background and proven leadership capabilities are especially important to our Board’s consideration of product and geographic expansion and business development opportunities.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 President, Industrial Gases, Americas of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (2015-2020)

 Tenneco:

 Global Vice President and General Manager, Ride Performance Group (2013-2015)

 Vice President and General Manager, Global Elastomers
(2011-2013)

 Johnson Controls International plc (formerly, Johnson Controls):

 Vice President & General Manager South America Region, Automotive Group (2010-2011)

 Vice President and General Manager,Hyundai-Kia Customer Business Unit (2008-2010)

 Global Vice President, Japan (2006-2008)

 

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

  Lead Director Chairman of the Board of Kelly Services, Inc. and Lead Independent Director of Rockwell Automation, Inc.,

 Chairman of the Board of Sierra Oncology, Inc. (2017-2019)

 Senior Vice President, Pharmacia Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, from which he retired in 2000

 Served as a senior corporate officer of Pharmacia & Upjohn and The Upjohn Company, predecessors of Pharmacia Corporation

 Director and trustee of a number of charitable and civic organizations

 

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Lisa A. Payne

Reginald M. Turner

AGE: 5961

AGE: 60

DIRECTOR SINCE:2006

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2015

POSITION:

Former Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Taubman Centers, Inc., a real estate investment trust

POSITION: Attorney and Member, Clark Hill PLC, a Detroit, Michigan-based law firm, since April 2000, and currently serves on its Executive Committee

 

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Ms. Payne provides leadership and executive management experience to our Board. She also possesses substantial financial, accounting and corporate finance expertise gained through her experience as Chief Financial Officer of Taubman Centers and as an investment banker. Her financial focus and proficiency helped guide Taubman Centers through the economic recession and increase shareholder value. She brings to our Board an understanding of growth strategy. In addition, Ms. Payne’s extensive experience in real estate investment, development and acquisition gives her an informed and thorough understanding of macroeconomic factors that may impact our business.

 

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

•  Director of J.C. Penney Company, Inc. and Rockwell Automation, Inc.

•  Chairman of the Board of Soave Enterprises, LLC, a privately held diversified management and investment company (2016 – 2017)

•  President of Soave Real Estate Group (2016 – 2017)

•  Taubman Centers, Inc.:

•  Vice Chairman (2005-2016)

•  Chief Financial Officer (2005-2015)

•  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer (1997-2005)

•  During the past five years, served as director of Taubman Centers, Inc. and Soave Enterprises, LLC

•  Investment banker, Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1987-1997)

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Reginald M. Turner

AGE: 58

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2015

POSITION:

Attorney and Member, Clark Hill PLC, a Detroit, Michigan-based law firm, since April 2000, and currently serves on its Executive Committee

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

As an accomplished litigator and legal advisor with expertise in labor and employment law and government relations, Mr. Turner brings to our Board substantial insight in these areas. His background, coupled with his service as a director of a financial institution and a member of its enterprise risk committee, make him a valuable asset to our Board in the areas of risk management and finance. Mr. Turner has numerous and varied experiences in business, civic and charitable leadership roles, and his skills and insight benefit our Board as it considers issues of risk management, corporate governance and legal risk.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 Director of J.C. Penney Company, Inc. and Rockwell Automation, Inc.

 Chairman of the Board of Soave Enterprises, LLC, a privately held diversified management and investment company (2016-2017)

 President of Soave Real Estate Group (2016-2017)

 Taubman Centers, Inc.:

 Vice Chairman (2005-2016)

 Chief Financial Officer (2005-2015)

 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer (1997-2005)

 During the past five years, served as director of Taubman Centers, Inc.

 Investment banker, Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1987-1997)

 

 

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

 Director of Comerica Incorporated since 2005, where he currently chairs that board’s Enterprise Risk Committee and serves on its Audit Committee and Qualified Legal Compliance Committee

  Past President President-elect nominee of the NationalAmerican Bar Association and past President of the State Bar of Michigan

 Active in public service and with civic and charitable organizations, serving in leadership positions with the Detroit Public Safety Foundation, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

 Past President of the National Bar Association and past President of the State Bar of Michigan

 Past chair of the United Way for Southeastern Michigan; Mr. Turner continues to serve on its executive committee

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Keith J. Allman

AGE: 55

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2014

 

  

POSITION:

Our President and Chief Executive Officer, since 2014

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Mr. Allman brings to our Board strong business leadership skills,hands-on operational experience with our businesses and valuable insight into our culture. He played an integral role in developing our strategies to strengthen our brands and improve our execution, which has helped to provide the foundation for the current direction of our Company. His key leadership positions within our Company have given him deep knowledge of all aspects of our business, and he also possesses a significant understanding of, and experience with, complex operations as well as company-specific customer expertise.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

•  Masco Corporation:

•  Group President (2011-2014)

•  President, Delta Faucet (2007-2011)

•  Executive Vice President, Builder Cabinet Group (2004-2007)

•  Served in various management positions of increasing responsibility at Merillat Industries (1998-2003)

•  Director of Oshkosh Corporation

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J. Michael Losh

AGE:71

DIRECTOR SINCE:2003

POSITION:

Retired Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of General Motors Corporation, a global automotive company

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Mr. Losh has strong leadership skills gained through significant executive leadership positions and through his service on boards of other publicly held companies in various industries. His current activities provide him with valuable exposure to developments in board oversight responsibilities, corporate governance, risk management, accounting and financial reporting, which enhances his service to us as Chairman of our Board. In addition, Mr. Losh has experience with and understands complex international financial transactions. He possesses substantial finance and accounting expertise gained through his experience as Chief Financial Officer of large organizations and through his service on other boards and audit committees.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

•  Director of Prologis, Aon plc, and H.B. Fuller Company

•  During the past five years, served as a director of CareFusion Corporation and TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.

•  Interim Chief Financial Officer of Cardinal Health, Inc. (2004-2005)

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Christopher A. O’Herlihy

AGE: 54

DIRECTOR SINCE:2013

POSITION:

Vice Chairman of Illinois Tool Works Inc., a global diversified industrial manufacturer of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses, since 2015

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Mr. O’Herlihy joined Illinois Tool Works Inc. in 1989. During his almost 30 years with Illinois Tool Works, he has held several executive positions through which he has acquired extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of business, including business strategy, operations, acquisitions, emerging markets, financial performance and structure, legal matters and human resources/talent management. His current responsibilities include developing and executing the overall corporate growth strategy. He brings to our Board strategic insight and understanding of complex business and manufacturing operations, as well as a valuable perspective of international business operations, gained through his experience with a multi-billion dollar diversified global organization.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

•  Illinois Tool Works Inc.:

•  Executive Vice President, with worldwide responsibility for Illinois Tool Works’ Food Equipment Group (2010-2015)

•  Group President – Food Equipment Group Worldwide (2010)

•  Group President – Food Equipment Group International(2009-2010)

•  For almost 30 years, served in various positions of increasing responsibility, including as Group President of the Polymers and Fluids Group

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Charles K. Stevens, III

AGE: 58

DIRECTOR SINCE: 2018

POSITION:

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of General Motors Company since 2014

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RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Mr. Stevens joined General Motors Company in 1983 with the Buick Motor Division. He brings over 30 years of financial experience to our board. His extensive background and expertise will provide our management and board with a significant understanding of finance, financial operations, international financial matters and consumer goods. His current responsibilities include leading General Motor Company’s global financial and accounting operations.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

•  General Motors Company:

•  Chief Financial Officer of GM North America (2010-2014).

•  Interim Chief Financial Officer of GM South America (2011-2013)

•  Chief Financial Officer of GM de Mexico (2008-2010)

•  Chief Financial Officer of GM Canada (2006-2008)

•  For more than 30 years, served in various positions of increasing responsibility, including several leadership positions with GM’s Asia Pacific region including China, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand

•  Member of the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business Advisory Board.


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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Our Board of Directors is committed to maintaining our high standards of ethical business conduct and corporate governance principles and practices.

 

  Key Facts about our Board

  Chairman   Chair of theour Board: J. Michael Losh

   Our current ChairmanChair and CEO roles are separate

   82% of our directors are independent

  7 Board meetings were held in 2017

•  Over 80% of our continuing directors are independent

   Each member of our Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Governance Committee is independent

   8 Board meetings were held in 2019, including one meeting at our Hansgrohe facilities in Germany

  Over 70%   3 of our continuing directors have joined our Board in the last 7 years

are racially and/or gender diverse

  2   We have a balanced range of our 11 continuing directors are female

•  The average age of our continuing independent directors is 59

director tenure:

Service on Board:  

              0-4 years                           5-9 years                           10+ years             

Number of directors:  

  2  6  3

Structure of our Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors currently is comprised of eleven members and is divided into three classes. Each class has a term of three years and each year the term of office of one class expires. Each director will hold office for the term to which he or she is elected or until his or her respective successor is elected and qualified.

Leadership Structure of our Board of Directors

Mr. J. Michael Losh was appointed as ChairmanChair of our Board on May 4, 2015. At that time, Mr. Losh also became the Chair of our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. Mr. Losh has served on our Board since 2003, including as the Chair of our Audit Committee from 2008-2015. Mr. Losh’s long-term service as a director of our Board and now as our Chair has given him extensive Company and industry-specific knowledge.

Effective Oversight of ourOur Company

As an independent ChairmanChair of our Board, Mr. Losh has a strong working relationship with the other directors and with our management.management team. Under his leadership, our Board is actively engaged in robust discussions with management regarding oversight of our corporate strategy and risk, our corporate culture and our governance practices. His responsibilities include:

 

presiding at Board meetings and at executive sessions of the independent directors;

 

providing advice to our CEO;

 

consulting

discussing with management regarding information sent to our Board;

and approving our Board’s meeting agendas and assuring that there is sufficient time for discussion of all agenda items;

 

in preparation for Board meetings, consulting with management on information to be provided to our Board;

overseeing the Board’s annual review of our strategic plan and its execution; and

 

calling meetings of theour independent directors, as necessary; andnecessary.

overseeing our Board and Committee self-evaluation process.

Separation of our ChairmanOur Chair of the Board and CEO Roles

Our Board believes that its leadership structure is in the best interests of the Company and our stockholders at this time; however, our Board has no policy with respect to the separation of the roles of CEO and ChairmanChair and believes that

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this matter should be discussed and determined by theour Board from time to time, based on all of the then-current facts and circumstances. If the roles of ChairmanChair and CEO are combined in the future, the rolethen a majority of our independent directors will elect a Lead Director, could become part of our Board leadership structure.who will be an independent director, for a renewableone-year term.

Communications with our Chairmanthe Chair of theOur Board

If you are interested in contacting the ChairmanChair of our Board, you may send your communication in care of our Secretary to the address specified in “Communications with Ourour Board of Directors” below.


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Director Independence

Our Corporate Governance Guidelines require that a majority of our directors qualify as “independent” under the requirements of applicable law and the New York Stock Exchange’s listing standards.

Director Independence Standards

For a director to be considered independent, our Board must determine that the director does not have any direct or indirect material relationship with us. Our Board has adopted standards to assist it in making a determination of independence for directors. These standards are posted on our website at www.masco.com.

Assessment of ourOur Directors’ Independence

Our Board has determined that nine of our eleven continuing directors, including all of ournon-employee directors other than Mr. Manoogian, are independent. As an employee, Mr. Allman, our President and Chief Executive Officer, is not an independent director. Our independent directors are Messrs. Alexander, Losh, O’Herlihy, Parfet, Plant, Stevens and Turner, Ms. Ffolkes and Ms. Payne.

In making its independence determinations, our Board reviewed all transactions, relationships and arrangements for the last three fiscal years involving eachnon-employee director and the Company.

 

In evaluating Mr. O’Herlihy’s independence, our Board considered our purchases of goods from his employer, Illinois Tool Works Inc. and its subsidiaries. The aggregate amount of these purchases was approximately $0.6 million in 2017.2019. Illinois Tool Works has reported revenue of $14.3$14.1 billion in 2017.2019. Our Board does not believe that Mr. O’Herlihy has a material interest in these transactions.

 

In evaluating Ms. Ffolkes’sFfolkes’ independence, our Board considered our purchases of goods from Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and its subsidiaries.subsidiaries, her employer through January 2020. The aggregate amount of these purchases was approximately $0.5$0.7 million in 2017.2019. Air Products and Chemicals has reported revenue of $8.2$8.9 billion for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2017.2019. Our Board does not believe that Ms. Ffolkes has a material interest in these transactions.

In evaluating Mr. Stevens’ independence, our Board considered an agreement that we had with General Motors Company that provided for a credit from General Motors Company on certain vehicles that we leased through third parties. Our credits for 2017 were approximately $2,500. General Motors Company has reported revenue of $145.6 billion in 2017. Our Board does not believe that Mr. Stevens has a material interest in this arrangement.

Our Board also determined that we did not make any discretionary charitable contributions exceeding the greater of $1 million or 2% of the revenues of any charitable organization in which any of our directors was actively involved in theday-to-day operations.

Committee Member Independence Assessment

Our Board has determined that each member of our Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Governance Committee qualifies as independent.independent under the requirements of applicable law and the New York Stock Exchange’s listing standards.

Board Refreshment

Our Governance Committee periodically reviews current director tenure, including whether any vacancies are expected on our Board due to retirement or otherwise, and periodically assesses the composition of our Board by reviewing our directors’

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skills and expertise. Our Board completes a director skills and expertise currently represented. Our Board’s completion of director skills matrices has providedexercise from time to time to provide our Governance Committee insight into our BoardBoard’s composition. The Committee useduses this information to evaluate the skills and experience represented on our Board and to identify anticipated skills and experience that would be valuable in the future to best support theour Company’s strategic objectives.

Director Refreshment

In 2017, our Governance Committee and Board focused on director candidate recruitment, which resulted in the appointment of two new independent directors, Ms. Marie Ffolkes and Mr. Charles Stevens.


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Director Refreshment

Seven new independent directors have joined our Board since 2012, bringing fresh Ms. Ffolkes and diverse perspectives. These directorsMr. Stevens have particular strengthstrengths in the areas of executive management, finance and accounting, risk management, global operations, businessmergers and growth strategy, brand management, risk management,acquisitions, talent management and government relations.marketing and brand management. We believe the addition of these newtwo directors, combined with our directors who have experience with us, provides a desirable balance of deep, historical understanding of our Company and new perspectives, resulting in strong guidance and oversight to our executive management team.

Chairman and Committee Refreshment

In May 2015, our Board appointed Mr. Losh as our new independent Board Chairman. Mr. Losh has been a member of our Board since 2003, and served as our Audit Committee Chair from 2008 to 2015, stepping down from that position when he was appointed as Chair of our Governance Committee. Additionally, on an annual basis our Governance Committee evaluates committee chair and member assignments and changes are made periodically. In May 2015, new Chairs were appointed to our Audit and Compensation Committees.

Board Membership and Composition

Board Membership

Our Governance Committee believes that directors should possess exemplary personal and professional reputations, reflecting high ethical standards and values. The expertise and experience of directors should provide a source of strategic oversight, advice and guidance to our management. A director’s judgment should demonstrate an inquisitive and independent perspective with acute intelligence and practical wisdom. Directors should be free of any significant business relationships which would result in a potential conflict in judgment between our interests and the interests of those with whom we do business. Each director should be committed to serving on our Board for an extended period of time and to devoting sufficient time to carry out the director’s duties and responsibilities in an effective manner for the benefit of our stockholders. Our Governance Committee also considers additional criteria adopted by our Board for director nominees and the independence, financial literacy and financial expertise standards required by applicable law and by the New York Stock Exchange.

Board Composition

Neither our Board nor our Governance Committee has adopted a formal Board diversity policy. However, as part of its assessment of Boardboard composition and evaluation of potential director candidates, our Governance Committee considers whether our directors hold diverse viewpoints, professional experiences, education and other skills and attributes that are necessary to enhance Boardour Board’s effectiveness. In addition, our Governance Committee believes that it is desirable for Board membersdirectors to possess diverse characteristics of gender, race, national and regional origin, ethnicity gender and age, and considers such factors in its evaluation of candidates for Boardboard membership.

Director Candidate Recommendations

The Governance Committee uses a number of sources to identify and evaluate director nominees. It is the Governance Committee’s policy to consider director candidates recommended by stockholders. All Board candidates, including those recommended by stockholders, are evaluated against the criteria described above. Stockholders wishing to have the Governance Committee consider a candidate should submit the candidate’s name and pertinent background information to our Secretary at the address stated below in “Communications with our Board of Directors.” Stockholders who wish to nominate director candidates for election to our Board should follow the procedures set forth in our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws. For a summary of these procedures, see “2019“2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders” below.Stockholders.”


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MASCO 2018Board Self-Evaluation

Our Governance Committee Chair, who is also the Chair of our Board, is responsible for the oversight of our Board’s annual self-evaluation process, including establishing evaluation criteria and reporting to the Board on the process and results of the evaluation and any recommendations for proposed changes.

Our Board’s self-evaluation process includes the following components:

 

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Each year our Board undertakes an anonymous self-evaluation to assess its performance. The directors provide feedback on:

 the Board’s role and effectiveness;

 composition of the Board;

 Board meetings and materials; and

 the Board’s interaction with management.

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In 2019, our Governance Committee reviewed our Board’s self-evaluation process and determined to enhance the process to includeone-on-one discussions between each individual director and the Chair of our Board.

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Board Summary

A summary of the self-evaluation results is provided to the full Board.

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Feedback

Director feedback provided through the self-evaluation process is considered and Board policies and practices are updated as appropriate.

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Risk Oversight

Our Board overseeshas a thorough approach to the oversight of our risk management practices, both directly and through its Committees.committees. Our Board exercises its risk oversight through an annual review and discussion of a comprehensive analysisanalyses prepared by management on material risks facing us and related mitigating activities; updates regarding these risks are presented at subsequent Board meetings. Our President and Chief Executive Officer,meetings throughout the year, as the head of our management team and a membernecessary.

Key risk oversight activities of our Board assists our Board in its risk oversight function and leads those discussions.include:

 

Key Risk Oversight Responsibilities of our Board of Directors

Strategic risk

 

 

Operational

 

  

   Each year our Board holds a strategy session in which management and our directors engage in a discussion of the execution of our current strategic objectives and the development of our long-term strategy.

   In 2019, our Board’s strategy session included a presentation from an investment bank and a housing industry expert that provided our directors with an external perspective of our Company and our industry.

Financial and

operational risk

 

 

   Each year our Board and management discuss our enterprise risk management profile, including the financial and operational risks material to us, and the activities we are pursuing to mitigate those risks.

   During the year, our directors discuss with management our financial performance and the opportunities and risks in achieving our annual and long-term operating plans.

   During the year, our directors discuss with certain of our business unit general managers their business and industry, the strategic objectives of the business unit and the risks that may impact the achievement of those strategic objectives. In 2019, our directors visited our Hansgrohe facilities in Germany to observe operations and meet with Hansgrohe’s management team.

   In 2019, our directors discussed cybersecurity risks and mitigation initiatives with management.

Legal, regulatory,

ethics and compliance

risk

   Each year our Board and management discuss an analysis of material legal, regulatory and ethics and compliance risk areas and the activities we are pursuing to mitigate those risks areas.

 

Our Board has delegated certain responsibilities for risk oversight to our Audit and Compensation Committees, as follows:

 

Key Risk Oversight Responsibilities

of our

Audit Committee

  

Key Risk Oversight Responsibilities

of our Compensation Committee

 

    Financial reporting

 

    Internal controls over financial reporting

 

    Legal and regulatory compliance

 

 Code of Business    Ethics and compliance program

  

 

    Executive compensation programs and policies

 

    CEO and executive management succession planning

For more information on the risk oversight activities of our Audit and Compensation Committees, see the “Committees of our Board of Directors” section.

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Board Meetings and Attendance

Board Meetings

Our Board held seveneight meetings in 2017,2019, one of which focused primarily on reviewing our current strategic objectives and the development of our long-term strategic planstrategy with management. In addition to the Board meetings at our corporate headquarters, in 20172019 our directors visited one of our manufacturingHansgrohe’s headquarters and production and research and development facilities to observe operations and meet with the facility’sHansgrohe’s management team.

Meeting Attendance

Each director attended at least 75% of our Board meetings and applicable committee meetings that were held in 2017 while such person served as a director.2019. It is our policy to encourage directors to attend our Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and all of our directors attended our 20172019 Annual Meeting except Ms. Ffolkes and Mr. Stevens, who joined our Board after the 2017 Annual Meeting, and Mr. Plant.Meeting.

Executive Sessions

Ournon-employee directors frequently meet in executive session without management, and the independent directors meet separately at least once per year. Mr. Losh, as our Chairmanthe Chair of theour Board, presides over these executive sessions.

Communications with our Board of Directors

If you are interested in contacting our Chairmanthe Chair of our Board, an individual director, our Board as a group, our independent directors as a group, or a specific Board committee, you may send a communication, specifying the individual or group you wish to contact, in care of: Kenneth G. Cole, Secretary, Masco Corporation, 17450 College Parkway, Livonia, Michigan 48152.


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COMMITTEES OF OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The standing committees of our Board are the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Governance Committee. These committees function pursuant to written charters adopted by our Board. The committee charters, as well as our Corporate Governance Guidelines and our Code of Business Ethics, are posted on our website at www.masco.com and are available to you in print from our website or upon request.

Audit Committee

 

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Lisa A. Payne

Chair

 

 

Mark R.

Alexander

 

Marie A.

Ffolkes

 

Christopher A.

O’Herlihy

 

Donald R. Parfet

 

Donald R.

Parfet

John C.

Plant

 

Charles K.

Stevens

 

Reginald M.

Turner

5 meetings in 2017

2019

All members are independent and financially literate

Ms. Payne and Ms. Ffolkes and Messrs. Alexander, O’Herlihy, Parfet, Plant and Stevens qualify as “audit committee financial experts” as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of RegulationS-K

Audit Committee activities in 2017 included:

reviewed and approved our 2016 Form10-K;

reviewed our Form10-Qs filed in 2017;

reviewed and approved our independent auditor’s 2017 integrated audit plan and service fees;

discussed with management quarterly updates on our internal controls over financial reporting;

reviewed the performance of our internal and independent auditors;

reviewed with management quarterly updates on ethics hotline matters;

discussed with management certain key risk management matters;

reviewed impact of adoption of new accounting standards; and

reviewed and approved our 2018 internal audit annual operating plan.

Audit Committee responsibilities include assisting the Board in its oversight of:

the integrity of our financial statements;

the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting;

the qualifications, independence and performance of our independent auditors;

the performance of our internal audit function; and

the compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including our employees’ compliance with our Code of Business Ethics.

In addition, our Audit Committee reviews and discusses with management certain financial andnon-financial risks.


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Audit Committee responsibilities include assisting the Board in its oversight of the following:

 the integrity of our financial statements

 the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting

 the qualifications, independence and performance of our independent auditors

 the performance of our internal audit function

 the compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including our employees’ and directors’ compliance with our Code of Ethics

In addition, our Audit Committee reviews and discusses with management certain key financial andnon-financial risks.

Audit Committee key activities in 2019:

  reviewed and approved our 2018 Form10-K

  reviewed our Form10-Qs filed in 2019

  discussed with management quarterly updates on our internal controls over financial reporting

  reviewed the performance of our internal and independent auditors

  reviewed the results of an external quality assessment of our internal audit department that was performed in accordance with the requirements of the Institute of Internal Auditors

  reviewed and discussed with PwC the carve-out audits of our windows and cabinetry businesses in connection with our divestitures of those businesses

  reviewed with management quarterly updates on ethics hotline matters

  discussed with management certain risk management matters

  discussed with management an update on our Ethics and Compliance Program

  reviewed and approved our independent auditor’s 2020 integrated audit plan and service fees

  reviewed and approved our 2020 internal audit annual operating plan

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    Donald R. Parfet    

Chair

 

 

Marie A. Ffolkes

J. Michael Losh

Christopher A.

O’Herlihy

Lisa A. Payne

 

        

 Christopher A.   

O’Herlihy 

    

 Lisa A. Payne   

7 meetings in 2019

 Mary Ann
Van Lokeren

All members are independent

   

 

6 meetings in 2017

 

All members are independentOur Compensation Committee is responsible for the following:

 

 the oversight of our executive compensation programs

 determining the goals and objectives applicable to the compensation of our CEO and evaluating our CEO’s performance in light of those goals

 reviewing our executive succession plan, including periodically reviewing our CEO’s evaluation and recommendation of a potential successor

 determining and administering equity awards granted under our stock incentive plan

 reviewing and establishing our peer group

In addition, our Compensation Committee evaluates risks arising from our compensation policies and practices and has determined that such risks are not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on us. Our executive officers and other members of management report to the Compensation Committee on executive compensation programs at our business units to assess whether these programs or practices expose us to excessive risk.

 

Compensation Committee key activities in 2019:

 reviewed and approved the incentive compensation for 2018 paid to our executive officers

 reviewed the alignment of our business strategy with the current incentive compensation structure for our executive officers

 established the 2019 performance metrics and goals for our 2019 Annual Incentive Program and 2019-2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan

 reviewed with management apay-for-performance analysis of our CEO’s compensation as compared to our peer group

 discussed with management an organization and talent update and our talent strategy, including an update on our diversity and inclusion initiative

 reviewed and approved compensation arrangements related to the divestitures of our windows and cabinetry businesses

 discussed with management our CEO evaluation process

 reviewed with management our 2019 shareholder engagement activities

 reviewed and recommended to our Board updates to our Compensation Committee Charter

Compensation Committee activities in 2017 included:

reviewed and approved the 2016 incentive compensation paid to our executive officers;

reviewed the alignment of our business strategy with the current incentive compensation structure for our executive officers;

established the 2017 performance metrics and goals for our 2017 Annual Incentive Program and 2017-2019 Long Term Incentive Plan;

evaluated CEO and executive management succession planning;

reviewed our CEO pay ratio determination process;

reviewed the independence of compensation consultant;

reviewed with management reports on our 2017 shareholder engagement activities;

discussed with management an organization and talent update and talent strategy; and

assessed the risk of our compensation programs and policies.

Our Compensation Committee is responsible for:

determining the compensation paid to our executive officers;

evaluating the performance of our senior executives;

determining and administering restricted stock awards and options granted under our stock incentive plan;

administering our annual and long-term performance compensation programs; and

reviewing our management succession plan, including periodically reviewing our CEO’s evaluation and recommendation of potential successors.

In addition, our Compensation Committee evaluates risks arising from our compensation policies and practices, and has determined that such risks are not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on us. Our executive officers and other members of management report to the Compensation Committee on executive compensation programs at our business units to assess whether these programs or practices expose us to excessive risk.


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Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee

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Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee

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J. Michael Losh

Chair

 

 

Mark R.

    Alexander      

Alexander

 Marie A. Ffolkes  

 

John C. Plant

  John C. Plant   

Charles K.

Stevens

 

 

Reginald M.

Turner

3 meetings in 2019

 

All members are independent

Mary Ann Van Lokeren

 

 

4 meetings in 2017Our Governance Committee is responsible for the following:

 

 advising our Board on the governance structure and conduct of our Board

 developing and recommending to our Board appropriate corporate governance guidelines and policies

 Board succession planning, including reviewing our Board’s structure and composition and the tenure of our directors

 reviewing the independence of our directors

 identifying and recommending qualified individuals for nomination andre-nomination to our Board

 recommending directors for appointment andre-appointment to Board committees

 reviewing and recommending to the Board our director compensation

Governance Committee key activities in 2019:

 reviewed and evaluated the composition of the Board and committees

 reviewed the results of our Board’s skills survey and 2019 self-evaluation

 reviewed and recommended to our Board updates to our Corporate Governance Guidelines and Governance Committee Charter

 reviewed our Board’s self-evaluation process for potential enhancements

 discussed with management significant governance trends

 reviewed with management a report on our 2019 shareholder engagement activities

 reviewed 2019 corporate and political contributions in accordance with our Political Contributions Policy

 

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Governance Committee activities in 2017 included:

 

reviewed director independence;

reviewed and evaluated the composition of the Board and committees;

recommended to the Board an increase in the number of directors and evaluated candidates;

reviewed 2016 corporate and political contributions in accordance with our Political Contributions Policy;

reviewed with management a report on our 2017 shareholder engagement activities;

discussed with management significant governance trends; and

engaged in director search process, which led to the appointment of Ms. Ffolkes and Mr. Stevens as directors.

Our Governance Committee is responsible for:

advising our Board on the governance structure and conduct of our Board;

developing and recommending to our Board appropriate corporate governance guidelines and policies;

Board succession planning, including reviewing our Board’s structure and composition and the tenure of our directors;

identifying and recommending qualified individuals for nomination andre-nomination to our Board;

recommending directors for appointment andre-appointment to Board committees; and

reviewing and recommending to the Board our director compensation.


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DIRECTOR COMPENSATION PROGRAM

Ournon-employee directors receive the following compensation for service on our Board:

 

  Compensation ElementAmount
 

  Compensation Element

Annual Cash Retainer

  

Amount

$130,000

Annual Cash Retainer

 

   $120,000

Annual Equity Retainer (a)

  

Restricted stock units with a value of $130,000$140,000 that vestsvest in three equal installments over three years

Annual ChairmanChair of the Board Cash Retainer

  $200,000
 

   $200,000

Annual Committee Chair Cash Retainer (b)

  

   $22,000$22,000 for the Audit Committee

   $18,000$20,000 for the Compensation Committee

   $12,000$15,000 for the Governance Committee

Meeting Fee (c)

  None
 

   None

Stock Retention Guideline

  

Directors must retain at least 50% of the shares of restricted stockequity they receive from us until their service as a director concludes

Annual Equity Retainer (row a):TheIn 2019, the annual equity retainer was paid in the form of restricted stock isgranted under ourNon-Employee Director Equity Program. Beginning in 2020, the annual equity retainer will be paid in the form of restricted stock units granted under ourNon-Employee Directors Equity Program. OurNon-Employee Director Equity Program imposes a limit on the amount of equity a director may receive during a year of the greater of 25,000 restricted stock units or equity with a grant date value of $500,000.

Annual Governance Committee Chair Cash Retainer (row b): The Governance Committee Chair retainer is not paid if the director who chairs that committee also serves as the ChairmanChair of our Board. Currently Mr. Losh serves as both our Chairmanthe Chair of theour Board and our Governance Committee Chair, so he does not receive the Governance Committee Chair retainer.

Meeting Fee (row c): Our Board may approve the payment of meeting fees to directors serving on three or more standing committees or serving as members of a special committee constituted by our Board. No such fees were paid for 2017.2019.

Other Compensation

Ournon-employee directors may also receive the following benefits, which are available to all of our employees:

 

Matching gifts program under which we will match up to $5,000 of a director’s contributions to eligible 501(c)(3)tax-exempt organizations each year.Non-employee directors may participate in the matching gifts program until December 31 of the year in which their services as a director ends.

 

Employee purchase program under which a director may obtain rebates on certain of our products purchased for their personal use.

In addition, if space is available, a director’s spouse is permitted to accompany a director who travels on Company aircraft to attend Board or committee meetings.

Annual Review of our Director Compensation Program

Our Governance Committee reviews our director compensation program annually, including reviewing an analysis of the competitiveness of the program, and recommends any changes to our Board. NoThe Committee determined to make no changes were made to our director compensation program in 2017. In 2016, upon the recommendation of our Governance Committee, our Board amended ourNon-Employee Director Equity Program to impose a limit on the amount of equity a director may receive during a year. The Board adopted an annual limit of the greater of 25,000 shares or restricted shares with a grant date value of $500,000 as the limit for each director.2019.


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DIRECTOR COMPENSATION TABLE

The following table reflects 20172019 compensation paid to our directors, other than Mr. Allman, who is also a Company employee and receives no additional compensation for his servicesservice as a director.

20172019 Director Compensation

 

      

Name

  

Cash Fees

Earned
($)

 

     

Restricted
Stock

Awards
($) (a)

 

     

All Other

Compensation
($) (b)

 

     

Total
($)

 

   

  Cash Fees  

  Earned ($)  

Restricted Stock

Awards ($)

(a)

All Other

Compensation ($)

(b)

Total ($)
       

Mark R. Alexander

  120,000

 

    130,162

 

    

 

    250,162

 

  130,000139,999269,999
      

Marie A. Ffolkes

  

50,000

 

     

86,877

 

     

 

     

136,877

 

   130,000139,999269,999
      

J. Michael Losh

  320,000

 

    130,162

 

    5,000

 

    455,162

 

  330,000139,9995,000474,999
      

Richard A. Manoogian

  

120,000

 

     

130,162

 

     

 

     

250,162

 

   130,000139,999269,999
      

Christopher A. O’Herlihy

  120,000

 

    130,162

 

    5,000

 

    255,162

 

  130,000139,9995,000274,999
      

Donald R. Parfet

  

138,000

 

     

130,162

 

     

5,000

 

     

273,162

 

   150,000139,9995,000294,999
      

Lisa A. Payne

  142,000

 

    130,162

 

    5,000

 

    277,162

 

  152,000139,9995,000296,999
      

John C. Plant

  

120,000

 

     

130,162

 

     

 

     

250,162

 

   130,000139,999269,999
      

Charles K. Stevens

  

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

  130,000139,999269,999
      

Reginald M. Turner

  

120,000

 

     

130,162

 

     

 

     

250,162

 

   130,000139,999269,999
    

Mary Ann Van Lokeren

  120,000

 

    130,162

 

    5,000

 

    255,162

 

  

Restricted Stock Awards (column a):In May 2017,2019, we granted 3,5703,690 shares of restricted stock to eachnon-employee director, except for Ms. Ffolkes, whose service as a director began in September 2017, and Mr. Stevens, whose service began in February 2018. Ms. Ffolkes received an award of 2,190 shares in October 2017 aspro-rated equity compensation for her service as a director. The amounts reported in this column reflect the aggregate grant date fair value of the shares, calculated in accordance with accounting guidance. Directors only realize the value of restricted stock awards over time because the vesting of awards occurs pro rata over three years, andone-half of these shares must be retained until completion of their service on our Board.

All Other Compensation (column b):The amounts reported in this column reflect our contributions in 20172019 to eligibletax-exempt organizations under our matching gifts program, as described above, for which directors receive no direct financial benefit. The matching contributions were attributable to director charitable contributions made in 2017.


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Unvested Restricted Stock and Stock Options Outstanding:Stock: The following table reports the aggregate number of shares of unvested restricted stock and the aggregate number of stock options outstanding, held on December 31, 20172019 by eachnon-employee director who was serving on that date. Our Board ceased granting stock options tonon-employee directors in 2010; however, a portion of the stock options granted before then remains outstanding. The stock options outstanding for Mr. Manoogian were granted while he was a Company employee.

 

  

   Director

 

  

Unvested

Restricted Stock

 

 

     

 

Stock Options

Outstanding

 

 

   
  

   Mark R. Alexander

 

  9,138

 

    

 

  
  

   Marie A. Ffolkes

 

  

2,190

 

     

 

   
  

   J. Michael Losh

 

  7,968

 

    18,234

 

  
  

   Richard A. Manoogian

 

  

7,968

 

     

569,821

 

   
  

   Christopher A. O’Herlihy    

 

  7,968

 

    

 

  
  

   Donald R. Parfet

 

  

7,968

 

     

 

   
  

   Lisa A. Payne

 

  7,968

 

    18,234

 

  
  

   John C. Plant

 

  

7,968

 

     

 

   
  

   Reginald M. Turner

 

  8,233

 

    

 

  
  

   Mary Ann Van Lokeren

 

  

7,968

 

      

9,117

 

    
  Director

Unvested

Restricted Stock (#)

Mark R. Alexander

7,333

Marie A. Ffolkes

7,603

J. Michael Losh

7,333

Richard A. Manoogian

7,333

Christopher A. O’Herlihy

7,333

Donald R. Parfet

7,333

Lisa A. Payne

7,333

John C. Plant

7,333

Charles K. Stevens

6,656

Reginald M. Turner

7,333

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RELATED PERSON TRANSACTIONS

Our Board of Directors has adopted a Related Person Transaction Policy that requires our Board or a committee of independent directors to approve or ratify any transaction involving us in which any director, director nominee, executive officer, 5% beneficial owner or any of his or her immediate family members has a direct or indirect material interest.

Related Persons Transaction Policy

Our policy covers:

 

financial transactions and arrangements, or any series of similar transactions;

 

indebtedness and guarantees of indebtedness; and

 

transactions involving employment.

Our policy excludes transactions determined by our Board not to involve a material interest of the related person, such as:

 

ordinary course of business transactions of $120,000 or less;

 

transactions in which the related person’s interest is derived from service as a director of another entity or ownership of less than 10% of another entity’s stock; and

 

transactions in which the related person’s interest is derived from service as a director, trustee or officer of anot-for-profit organization or charity that receives donations from us, which are made in accordance with our matching gifts program.


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Assessing Related Person Transactions

Our policy requires directors, director nominees and executive officers to provide prompt written notice to our Secretary of any related transaction so it can be reviewed by our Governance Committee. If theour Governance Committee determines that the related person has a direct or indirect material interest in the transaction, it will consider all relevant information to assess whether the transaction is in, or not inconsistent with, our best interests and the best interests of our stockholders. TheOur Governance Committee annually reviews previously-approved ongoing related transactions to determine whether the transactions should continue.

Related Persons Transactions for 20172019

There have been no new transactions since January 1, 20172019 required to be described in this proxy statement that were not subject to review, approval or ratification in accordance with this policy.statement.

On-Going Related Person Transactions

Our Governance Committee previously approved theon-going related transaction described below.

Transactions with Mr. Richard A. Manoogian in 2019

In accordance with the terms of our 2009 agreement with Mr. Manoogian, who transitioned to Chairman Emeritus in 2012, in 2019 we provided him with office space for half of the year, an administrative assistant and reasonable equipment and supplies for his personal use and a subscription allowance, which together aggregated approximately $212,000 for 2017.$152,000. We also charged Mr. Manoogian the full cost for additional office space for half of the year and related equipment and supplies used by his personal and charitable foundation staff and for a driver and the incremental cost for his use of our aircraft (with prior approval from our CEO), all of which aggregatedwas approximately $176,300 for 2017. In June 2017, we ceased providing dedicated office space and a driver to Mr. Manoogian and office space, equipment and supplies to Mr. Manoogian’s personal and charitable foundation staff.$32,350.


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ProposalPROPOSAL 1: Election of Class III DirectorsELECTION OF CLASS II DIRECTOR NOMINEES

The term of office of our Class IIIII Directors, who are Mark R. Alexander, RichardKeith J. Allman, J. Michael Losh, Christopher A. Manoogian, John C. PlantO’Herlihy and Mary Ann Van Lokeren,Charles K. Stevens, III, expires at this meeting. Ms. Van Lokeren, who has served on our Board of Directors since 1997, will be retiring from our Board effective as of the date of our Annual Meeting of Stockholders, at which time the number of directors on our Board will be reduced to eleven.

Our Board proposes there-election of Messrs. Alexander, ManoogianAllman, Losh, O’Herlihy and PlantStevens to serve as Class IIIII Directors. The term of the Class IIIII Directors elected at this Annual Meeting will expire at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders in 2021,2023, or when their respective successors are elected and qualified.

Our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee recommended Mr. Manoogian stand forre-election based on his past leadership of our Company as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and on his tenure as a director. The Board has made an exception to its age 72 retirement policy for Mr. Manoogian and recommends Mr. Manoogian forre-election as a director.

Our Board expects that the persons named as proxy holders on the proxy card will vote the shares represented by each proxy for the election of each director nominee unless a contrary direction is given. If, prior to the meeting, a nominee is unable or unwilling to serve as a director, which our Board does not expect, the proxy holders may vote for an alternate nominee recommended by our Board, or our Board may reduce its size.

Information regarding each of our director nominees can be found above in “Director Nominees for Class III.II.

Our Board recommends a vote FOR the election to our Board of Directors of each of the following Class II Director nominees:

 

   

   Name

 

 

  

Age

 

 

     

Director

Since

 

 

        

Occupation

 

 

   

   Mark R. Alexander

 

  

53

 

    

2014

 

      

Senior Vice President of Campbell Soup Company and President of Americas Simple Meals and Beverages, Campbell Soup Company (through April 2, 2018)

 

   

   Richard A. Manoogian

 

  

81

 

     

1964

 

        

Our Chairman Emeritus

 

   

   John C. Plant

 

  

64

 

    

2012

 

      

Retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.

 

   
  NameAgeDirector
Since
Occupation
    

Keith J. Allman

572014Our President and Chief Executive Officer, since 2014
    

J. Michael Losh

732003Retired Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of General Motors Corporation, a global automotive company
   

Christopher A. O’Herlihy

562013Vice Chairman of Illinois Tool Works Inc., a global diversified industrial manufacturer of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses, since 2015
    

Charles K. Stevens, III

602018Retired Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of General Motors Company, a global automotive company

The affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by shares entitled to vote is required for the election of directors. Abstentions and brokernon-votes are not counted as votes cast, and therefore do not affect the outcome of the election.


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Compensation DiscussionCOMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS SUMMARY

and Analysis Summary

Our executive compensation programs are designed to promote the long-term interests of our stockholders by attracting and retaining talented executives and motivating them to achieve our strategic business objectives and to createdrive stockholder value. We believe that our financial performance our achievement of strategic business goals and the creation of long-term stockholder value should impact a significant portion of our executive officers’ compensation. Our Compensation Committee oversees our compensation programs and the compensation paid to our executive officers.

HOW OUR 20172019 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IMPACTED OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS’AND PERFORMANCE COMPENSATION PROGRAMS

WeOur continuing operations delivered solid financial resultssales and operating profit growth in 2017.2019. Our reported annual sales for the full year increased 4%1% to $7.6$6.7 billion and our annual operating profit increased 1% to $1.1 billion, despite the challenges of higher input costs for the full year increased 11% to $1.2 billionmany of our products and we increasedslower growth in our operating profit margin to 15.3% from 14.3%.overall end markets. Based on our financial performance in 2017,2019, our executive officers earned incentive compensation pursuant tounder our performance-based compensation programs, which include:

 

An annual performance program under which we pay cash bonuses and grant restricted stock units to our executive officers if we meet annual performance goals; and

 

A Long Term CashLong-Term Incentive Program (“LTCIP”LTIP”) under which we make cash awards to our executive officers earn a stock award if we meet return on invested capital performance goals over a three-year period.

The following tables reflect our target goals for our 2017 annual performance program and our 2015-2017 LTCIP and our performance relative to those goals. We exceeded our target operating income goal for our annual performance program, but we did not achieve the target for working capital as a percent of sales goal, which reduced the payout to our executive officers.

2017 ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

   

   Performance  

   Metric

 

 

  Target  

 

   

  Performance  

  (as adjusted)  

 

   

Weighted

  Performance  
Percentage

 

  
   

Operating Profit
(in millions)

 

 $1,127

 

  $1,185

 

  

 

119%

 

Working Capital as a Percent of Sales

 

 12.8%

 

  13.9%

 

   

2015-2017 LTCIP

   Performance

   Metric

 

 

  Target  

 

   

 

  Performance  

(as adjusted)

 

   

 

  Performance  
Percentage

 

  
   

 

Return on Invested
Capital

 

 

 

 

12%

 

 

  

 

13.6%

 

 

  

 

132%

 

 

 

See “Our 2017 Annual Performance Program” and “Our Long Term Incentive Program” below for a description of our calculation of operating profit, working capital as a percent of sales and ROIC performance.


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Compensation Discussion and Analysis Summary

Based on this performance, we paid the following compensation to our executive officers under our 2017 annual performance program and 2015-2017 LTCIP:

    

   Name

 

  

Cash
Bonus ($)

 

     

Restricted
Stock
Award ($)

 

     

2015-2017
LTCIP Cash
Award

 

     

Total ($)

 

   
    

   Keith J. Allman

 

  2,144,100

 

    2,143,996

 

    2,178,000

 

    6,466,096

 

  
    

   John G. Sznewajs

 

  

609,800

 

     

609,621

 

     

618,800

 

     

1,838,221

 

   
    

   Richard A. O’Reagan

 

  468,600

 

    468,486

 

    445,500

 

    1,382,586

 

  
    

   Kenneth G. Cole

 

  

344,200

 

     

344,202

 

     

313,200

 

     

1,001,602

 

   
    

   Christopher K. Kastner

 

  265,100

 

    264,998

 

    231,000

 

    761,098

 

  

OTHER PERFORMANCE COMPENSATION WE PAID IN 2017

We grant stock options annually to our executive officers to align their long-term interests with those of our stockholders by reinforcing the goal of long-term share price appreciation. In 2017, our Compensation Committee awarded to our executive officers the following stock options that vest ratably over five years:

   

   Name

 

Stock

Options

Awarded

(#)

 

Option

Exercise

Price

($ per share)

 

   Value of Stock    

   Options Awarded    

   ($)    

 

   

Keith J. Allman

 

173,250

 

33.75

 

1,675,328    

 

   

   John G. Sznewajs

 

55,000

 

33.75

 

531,850    

 

   

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

37,500

 

33.75

 

362,625    

 

   

   Kenneth G. Cole

 

27,790

 

33.75

 

268,729    

 

   

Christopher K. Kastner

 

21,180

 

33.75

 

204,811    

 

The value of the stock options awarded is the aggregate grant date fair value of stock options, calculated in accordance with accounting guidance.

These stock options will provide value to our executive officers only if the price of our common stock increases above the option exercise price.    


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Compensation Discussion and Analysis Summary

OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS’ PERFORMANCE-BASED TARGET COMPENSATION

Our target compensation mix for our CEO and our other executive officers reflects our emphasis on long-term, performance-based compensation that incentivizes our executive officers to make strategic decisions that will strengthen our business and create long-term value for our stockholders. In 2017, 86%2019, 87% of our CEO’s target compensation and 73%75% of our other executive officers’ target compensation was performance-based, as shown in the graphs below.

 

 

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PERFORMANCE COMPENSATION WE PAID IN 2019

  2019 ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

 

      

2017-2019 LTIP

 

 
        
Performance Metric   Target    

Performance

  (as adjusted)  

  Weighted
  Performance  
Percentage
       Performance Metric   Target    

Performance

  (as adjusted)  

  Performance
Percentage
 

Operating Profit (in millions)

  $1,281   $1,263      

Return on Invested Capital

  14.0%   15.7%   134% 

Working Capital as a Percent of Sales

  15.6%   15.8%   77%  
                       

See “Our 2019 Annual Performance Program” and “Our Long-Term Incentive Program” below for a description of our calculation of operating profit, working capital as a percent of sales and ROIC performance.

Based on this performance, our executive officers earned the following compensation under our 2019 annual performance program and 2017-2019 LTIP:

     
  Name  Cash
Bonus ($)
  Restricted
Stock Unit
Award ($)
  2017-2019
LTIP-Stock
Earned ($)
  Total ($)
     

Keith J. Allman

  1,429,000  1,587,977  3,390,180  6,407,157
     

John G. Sznewajs

  418,600  418,739  973,611  1,810,950
     

Joseph B. Gross

  297,400  297,538  635,123  1,230,061
     

Richard A. O’Reagan

  327,900  327,957  734,035  1,389,892
     

Jai Shah

  303,200  303,241  512,338  1,118,779

OTHER PERFORMANCE COMPENSATION WE PAID IN 2019

We grant stock options annually to our executive officers to align their long-term interests with those of our stockholders by reinforcing the goal of long-term share price appreciation. These stock options will provide value to our executive officers only if the price of our common stock increases above the option exercise price. In 2019, our Compensation Committee awarded to our executive officers the following stock options that vest ratably over five years:

   
  Name  Stock
Options
Awarded
(#)
  

Option
Exercise
Price

($ per share)

  Value of Stock
Options Awarded
($)
   

Keith J. Allman

  227,240  35.52  2,001,507
   

John G. Sznewajs

  62,430  35.52  549,877
   

Joseph B. Gross

  42,570  35.52  374,952
   

Richard A. O’Reagan

  46,940  35.52  413,443
   

Jai Shah

  44,700  35.52  393,713

The value of the stock options awarded is the aggregate grant date fair value of stock options, calculated in accordance with accounting guidance.

OUR COMPENSATION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Our compensation practices include:

 

 ü 

Long-Term Incentives - Our compensation programs are weighted toward long-term incentives. We give approximately equal weight to performance-based restricted stock units, stock options and our three-year LTCIP.incentive program. In 2017, we modified our long-termthree-year incentive program by replacing the cash award with performance-based restricted stock units (“PRSUs”).

 

 ü 

 Five-Year Vesting for Equity AwardsPerformance-Based Annual Restricted Stock Units - Our performance-basedannual grant of restricted stock units is based on our executive officers’ target opportunity and stock option awards vest over five years, which is longer than typical market practice.the achievement of our performance goals under our annual performance program.

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 ü 

Long-Term Performance Program - A significant portion of our executive officers’ compensation opportunity is based on the achievement of a long-termthree-year performance goal.

 

 ü 

Clawback Policy - If we restate our financial statements, other than as a result of changes to accounting rules or regulations, our clawback policy allows us to recover incentive compensation paid to our executives in the three-year period prior to the restatement, regardless of whether misconduct caused the restatement.

 

 ü 

Stock Ownership Requirements - We have minimum stock ownership requirements for our executive officers, including requiring our CEO to own stock valued at six times his base salary. As of December 31, 2017,2019, each of our executive officers met his or her stock ownership requirement.

 

 ü 

Double-TriggerVesting - We have double-trigger vesting of equity on a change in control.

 

 ü 

Tally Sheets and Risk Analysis - Our Compensation Committee uses tally sheets, and analyzesoversees a risk in setting executive compensation.assessment to evaluate whether our compensation programs present undue risk to us.


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Compensation Discussion and Analysis Summary

 

 ü 

Competitive Analysis - On an annual basis, our Compensation Committee reviews a market analysis of executive compensation paid by our peer companies and published survey data forcomparably-sized companies.

 

 ü 

Limited Perquisites - We provide limited perquisites to our executive officers.

Our compensation practices donot include:

  Excise TaxGross-Ups - We have eliminated the excise taxgross-up feature on all of the equity grants   made since 2012.

  Hedging or Pledging - Our policy prohibits executives and directors from hedging our stock and
×

Excise TaxGross-Ups—We eliminated the excise taxgross-up feature on all of the equity grants made since 2012.

 from making future pledges of our stock.

×

Hedging or Pledging—Our policy prohibits executives and directors from hedging our stock and from making future pledges of our stock.

Contractual Termination Arrangements - We have no change in control agreements, contractual   severance agreements or employment agreements providing for severance payments with our
  executive officers.

×

Employment Agreements—We have no change in control agreements or employment agreements providing for severance payments with our executive officers.

  Option Repricing - 

×

Option RepricingOur equity plan prohibits the repricing of options without stockholder approval.

STOCKHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

At our 20172019 Annual Meeting, 98%95% of the votes cast on oursay-on-pay proposal approved the compensation we paid to our executive officers. Although thesay-on-pay vote is advisory andnon-binding, our Compensation Committee believes this approval percentage indicates strong support for our continued efforts to enhance ourpay-for-performance practices, and our Compensation Committee concluded that our stockholders endorse our current executive compensation programs and policies.

In 2017,2019, we continued our robust stockholder engagement program through which we encourage certain of our stockholdersand requested the opportunity to engage in dialogue with us twice per year. During the year, we reached out to stockholders holding over 45%approximately 50% of our outstanding shares. We received positive feedback from the stockholders with whom we spoke regarding the structure of our compensation programs and practices, which was reflective of the strong support we received for oursay-on-pay proposal over the past four years. We provide reports on the stockholder feedback we receive to our Compensation Committee and Governance Committee.


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COMPENSATION DECISIONS IN 20172019

Our 20172019 Financial Performance

WeOur continuing operations delivered solid financial results in 2017.2019 despite the challenges of higher input costs for many of our products and slower growth in our overall end markets. Our reported sales for the full year increased 4%1% to $7.6 billion,$6.7 billion. This sales growth was largely driven by our operatingsuccessful pricing actions as we mitigated the impact of the imposition of tariffs. Operating profit for the full year increased 11%by 1% to $1.2$1.1 billion and we increased our operating profit marginearnings per share from continuing operations grew 7% to 15.3% from 14.3%. Our sales growth was driven by our longstanding commitment to customer-focused innovation and successful new programs. Our operating profit growth demonstrates our strong operating leverage and continued improvements in cost productivity.$2.20 per share.

In addition, we executed and delivered on our strategy to delivering salesbecome a more stable, less cyclical and operating profit growth,higher return building products company through the divestitures of our windows businesses in 2017November 2019 and our cabinetry business, which closed in February 2020. Lastly, we returnedcontinued to implement our balanced capital to our stockholdersallocation strategy by repurchasing $331$896 million in shares of our stock, and increasing our annual dividend for the sixth year in a row and reducing our debt by approximately 5%. Finally, we continued the execution of our strategy to position us for future growth by focusing on leveraging opportunities across our businesses, driving the full potential of our core businesses and actively managing our portfolio.$201 million.

How We Performed Against our Performance Compensation Goals

Our 20172019 annual performance program was based on operating profit and working capital as a percent of sales metrics. We exceeded the target operating profit goal for this program, but we did not achieve theour target working capital as a percent of sales goal,for either metric, which resulted in an overall performance percentage of 119%77%. As a result, consistentConsistent with our commitment topay-for-performance, pay for performance, our executive officers earned cash bonuses and awards of restricted stock awardsunits based on this achievement (see “Our 20172019 Annual Performance Program” below).

Our LTCIPLTIP for the three-year performance period of 20152017 to 20172019 was based on a return on invested capital (“ROIC”) metric, and we significantlysteadily improved our ROIC over the three-yearyear-over-year during that period. Our adjusted ROIC in 2015, 20162017, 2018 and 20172019 was 11.6%15.3%, 14.0%,15.6% and 15.3%16.2% respectively, for an average adjusted ROIC of 13.6%15.7% over the three-year performance period. This level of performance exceeded the target ROIC goal for this program, and we achieved a performance percentage of 132%134% (see “Our Long-Term Incentive Program” below).

Our 20172019 Annual Performance Program

Program Opportunities

We provide annual performance-based cash bonus and restricted stock unit opportunities to our executive officers to emphasize achievement ofincentivize them to achieve rigorous annual performance goals, provide incentive to achieve our criticalstrategic business objectives and to align our executive officers’ interests with those of our stockholders.

Our Compensation Committee establishes the cash bonus and restricted stock unit opportunities available to each executive officer as a percentpercentage of the officer’s annual base salary. AnUnder our annual performance program, if the threshold goal is not achieved, our executive officer canofficers do not earn up toa payout. If the maximum opportunity as both a cash bonus payment and restricted stock award. goal is exceeded, the payout percentage is capped at 200% of the target opportunity.

Our executive officers had the following target opportunities in 20172019 under our annual performance program:

 

 
  

 

  Opportunity for Cash Bonus as a  

  % of Annual Base Salary  

 

   

 

   Name

 

 

Minimum

 

 

Target

 

 

Maximum

 

   

 

   Keith J. Allman

 

 0%

 

 150%

 

 300%

 

   

 

   John G. Sznewajs

 

 0%

 

 75%

 

 150%

 

   

 

   Richard A. O’Reagan

 

 0%

 

 75%

 

 150%

 

   

 

   Kenneth G. Cole

 

 0%

 

 65%

 

 130%

 

   

 

   Christopher K. Kastner

 

 0%

 

 55%

 

 110%

 

 
  

 

Opportunity for Restricted Stock Award    

as a % of Annual Base Salary    

 

   

 

   Name

 

 

Minimum

 

 

Target

 

 

Maximum

 

   

 

   Keith J. Allman

 

 0%

 

 150%

 

 300%

 

   

 

   John G. Sznewajs

 

 0%

 

 75%

 

 150%

 

   

 

   Richard A. O’Reagan

 

 0%

 

 75%

 

 150%

 

   

 

   Kenneth G. Cole

 

 0%

 

 65%

 

 130%

 

   

 

   Christopher K. Kastner

 

 0%

 

 55%

 

 110%

 


   
 

Target Opportunity for
Cash Bonus as a % of

    Annual Base Salary    

Target Opportunity for
    Restricted Stock Units as    
a % of Annual Base

Salary

   

Keith J. Allman

150%167%
   

John G. Sznewajs

75%75%
   

Joseph B. Gross

75%75%
   

Richard A. O’Reagan

75%75%
   

Jai Shah

75%75%

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Performance Metrics

Our Compensation Committee selected operating profit and working capital as a percent of sales metrics for our 2019 annual 2017 performance program because it believed that improvement in these metrics would continue to reinforce our executive officers’ focus on long-term growth and capital efficiency and drive stockholder value. These metrics are easily derived from our audited financial statements, which our Compensation Committee believes provides transparency both for our stockholders (as requested from stockholders when we sought feedback) and our executive officers. Our Compensation Committee gave a 75% weighting to the operating profit metric and a 25% weighting to the working capital as a percent of sales metric.

Program Targets and Achievement

In setting our performance targets, our Compensation Committee reviews our operating profit forecast for the year, taking into account general economic and industry conditions. In establishing the 20172019 performance targets, it was expected therewe would be continued improvement in the overall economy, thatexperience slower consumer spendingdemand, as well as higher input costs for both large and small home improvement projects and housing starts would increase in 2017 and that there would be improved performance from allmany of our businesses. Our Compensation Committee also expected that we would continueproducts due to incur incremental expenses related to growth investmentsincreasing tariffs and the launch of new programs with our retail and dealer customers.general commodity inflation.

In 2017, our adjusted operating profit was $1,185 million, which represents 158%2019, we achieved 82% of our operating profit target. We did not achievetarget and 60% of our working capital as a percent of sales target principally due to increased inventory levelstarget. After weighting the operating profit metric at certain75% and the working capital as a percent of sales metric at 25%, our business units. Our actual performance percentage for the 20172019 annual performance program was 119%77% of target.

 

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    Performance Metric 

    Threshold    

(40%
Payout)

 

Target

(100% Payout)

 

    Maximum    

(200%
Payout)

     Percentage    
Attained
        Weighting            Performance    
Percentage
    

 

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Operating Profit (in millions)

 $1,221 

 

 

$1,281

 

 

 $1,381 82% × 75% = 62%
  

 

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Working Capital as a Percent of Sales

 15.9% 

 

15.6%

 

 15.1% 60% × 25% = 15%

 

Performance Percentage

 

        

 

77%

 

To determinecalculate achievement of our operating profit performance target, we adjusted our 20172019 reported operating profit from continuing operations of $1,169$1,088 million by $16 million forto include the operating profit of our windows and cabinetry businesses which we reported as discontinued operations ($130 million) and to exclude the effects of expense recognized due to restructuring and rationalization charges ($19 million), intangible asset impairment charges ($16 million) and other items.unusualnon-recurring net gains and losses ($10 million). Our operating profit for purposes of the annual performance program was $1,185$1,263 million.

To determine achievement of our working capital as a percent of sales performance target, we define working capital as a percent of sales as thequarter-end averagesa twelve-month average of our reported accounts receivable and inventories, less accounts payable, divided by our reported sales for the year. For 2017,2019, the inputs to our calculation included amounts related to our divested businesses for the months which we owned those businesses. Our working capital as a percent of sales was 13.9%15.8%.


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Compensation Paid Under the 20172019 Program

We calculated the actual cash bonuses to be paid and restricted stock award valuesunits to be granted to our executive officers under the 20172019 annual performance program by multiplying the target opportunities for each executive officer by the 119%77% performance percentage achieved and multiplying that result by each executive officer’s base salary as of December 31, 2017,2019, as follows:

 

   
Name

Target
   Opportunity   

 

 

   Performance   
Percentage

 

 

Base
   Salary ($)   

 

 

   Amount of   
Cash
Bonus ($)

 

Value of
Restricted
   Stock Award   
($) (a)

 

 

Total
2017 Annual
Performance
   Compensation   
($)

 

 Target
  Opportunity  
      Performance  
Percentage
      Base Salary  
($)  
      Amount of  
  Cash Bonus  
($)
 Value of
Restricted
  Stock Unit  
Award ($)
(a)
 Total 2019
Annual
Performance
  Compensation  
($)
   

Keith J. Allman

150%

 

  ×  

 

119%

 

  ×  

 

1,201,200

 

  =  

 

2,144,100

 

2,143,996

 

4,288,096

 

Keith J. Allman

(cash bonus)

 150% ×   77% ×   1,237,236 =   1,429,000  1,429,000
  

Keith J. Allman

(restricted stock unit award)

 167% x   77% x   1,237,236 =    1,587,977 1,587,977
         

 

 

Keith J. Allman

(total)

         3,016,977
         

 

   

John G. Sznewajs

75%

 

  ×  

 

119%

 

  ×  

 

683,200

 

  =  

 

609,800

 

609,621

 

1,219,421

 

 75% ×   77% ×   724,811 =   418,600 418,739 837,339
   

Joseph B. Gross

 75% ×   77% ×   515,000 =   297,400 297,538 594,938
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

75%

 

  ×  

 

119%

 

  ×  

 

525,000

 

  =  

 

468,600

 

468,486

 

937,086

 

 75% ×   77% ×   567,839 =   327,900 327,957 655,857
   

Kenneth G. Cole

65%

 

  ×  

 

119%

 

  ×  

 

445,000

 

  =  

 

344,200

 

344,202

 

688,402

 

 

Christopher K. Kastner

55%

 

  ×  

 

119%

 

  ×  

 

405,000

 

  =  

 

265,100

 

264,998

 

530,098

 

Jai Shah

 75% ×   77% ×   525,000 =   303,200 303,241 606,441

Value of Restricted Stock Unit Award (column a):The number of shares of restricted stock units granted is determined by dividing the value of the restricted stock unit award by the closing price of our common stock on the grant date and rounding to the nearest ten shares. The amount reflected in this column is the value of the shares of restricted stock units granted. These restricted stock awardsunits vest on apro-rata basisin equal installments over fivethree years following the grant date, so our executive officers do not realize the value of these stock awards until they vest.

Our Long-Term Incentive Program

Program Opportunities

In 2012 ourOur Compensation Committee established the LTCIP to providebelieves a long-term incentive program provides a meaningful incentive for our executive officers to achieve long-term growth and profitability. OurUnder our LTIP, PRSUs are granted to our executive officers earn aat the beginning of each three-year performance award in cash underperiod. This grant of PRSUs entitles our executive officers to receive shares of our stock to the LTCIP when weextent they achieve aat least the threshold performance goal over athe three-year period. If the threshold goal is not achieved, our executive officers do not earn a payout. If the maximum goal is exceeded, the payout percentage is capped at 200% of the target opportunity.

Our Compensation Committee establishedestablishes the LTCIPLTIP opportunity available to each executive officer as a percent of the executive officer’s annual base salary at the beginning of each LTCIP three-year performance period.

Our executive officers other than Mr. Allman, had the following LTCIPLTIP target opportunities under the 2015-2017 LTCIP.2017-2019 LTIP:

 

 
   

Opportunity under the 2015-2017 LTCIP       

 

   

 

   Name

 

  

  Minimum     

 

  

  Target      

 

  

Maximum     

 

   

 

John G. Sznewajs

 

  0%

 

  75%    

 

  150%     

 

   

 

   Richard A. O’Reagan

 

  

0%

 

  

75%    

 

  

150%     

 

   

 

Kenneth G. Cole

 

  0%

 

  65%    

 

  130%     

 

   

 

   Christopher K. Kastner

 

  

0%

 

  

50%    

 

  

100%     

 

Mr. Allman’s LTCIP for 2015-2017 is based on a target incentive of $1,650,000, with a minimum of 0% and a maximum of 200% of his target amount.

In 2017, to further align our executives’ compensation with the interests of our stockholders, our Compensation Committee modified our long-term incentive program by replacing the cash award with performance-based restricted stock units (“PRSUs”). Beginning in 2017, PRSUs will be granted to our

  Name

Target Opportunity Under

2017-2019 LTIP as a % of
Annual Base Salary

Keith J. Allman

150%

John G. Sznewajs

75%

Joseph B. Gross

75%

Richard A. O’Reagan

75%

Jai Shah

65%

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executive officers at the beginning of each three-year performance period under the Long-Term Incentive Program (“LTIP”). The grant of PRSUs may entitle our executive officers to receive shares of our stock based on achieving a performance goal over a three-year period. In 2019, our executive officers will continue to have the opportunity to receive a performance award in cash in connection with the 2016-2018 LTCIP performance period.

Performance Metric

Our Compensation Committee chose the ROIC performance metric because ROIC reinforces our executive officers’ focus on capital efficiency and consistent return on capital.capital and encourages our executive officers to make new, profitable investments. Additionally, our stockholders have toldcontinue to provide us feedback that ROIC is a measure of importance to them in their assessment of our long-term stockholder value.

Program Targets and Achievement

Our Compensation Committee established the following ROIC goals and corresponding payout percentages for the 2015-20172017-2019, 2018-2020 and 2016-2018 LTCIP performance periods and the 2017-20192019-2021 LTIP performance period.periods. These performance goals are consistent with our long-range business plan and require a high level of performance to achieve:

 

 
   

Three-Year Average ROIC

 

  
   

Threshold    

(40% Payout)    

 

  

Target    

(100% Payout)    

 

  

Maximum    

(200% Payout)    

 

  

 

2015-2017 LTCIP Performance Period

 

(adjusted after TopBuild spin off)

  9.0%      12.0%      17.0%    
  

 

 

2016-2018 LTCIP Performance Period

  9.0%      12.0%      17.0%    
  

 

 

2017-2019 LTIP Performance Period

  11.0%      14.0%      19.0%    
  
 Three-Year Average ROIC
    
 

Threshold

(40% Payout)

Target

(100% Payout)

Maximum

(200% Payout)

  

2017-2019 LTIP Performance Period

11.0%14.0%19.0%
  

2018-2020 LTIP Performance Period (a)

15.0%16.5%19.0%
    

2019-2021 LTIP Performance Period

16.0%17.5%20.0%

Our Compensation Committee establishes performance goals at the beginning of each three-year period. After the spin off of TopBuild Corp.,row (a): In March 2020, our Compensation Committee determined it was appropriate to adjust the ROIC goalstargets for the 2015-20172018-2020 performance period to reflect the change in our business as a result of the spin off. Althoughdivestitures of our Compensation Committee determined to keep the 2016-2018 performance period goals the same as the prior three-year performance period, it significantly increased the three-year average ROIC threshold, targetwindows and maximum for the 2017-2019 performance period. The use of ROIC for our long-term incentives in conjunction with operating profit growth goals in our annual performance program helps ensure our executive officers are encouraged to make new, profitable investments to achieve these goals.cabinetry businesses.

From 20152017 to 2017,2019, we substantiallysteadily improved our ROIC each year through our improved operating profit performance, cost reductionsmitigation and market share gains. As a result, we achieved adjusted ROIC of 15.3% in 2017.2017, 15.6% in 2018 and 16.2% in 2019. Under the LTCIP,LTIP, we use the average annual ROIC performance averaged over a three-year period to determine the award amount. Our average adjusted ROIC was 13.6%15.7% for the 2015-20172017-2019 performance period, resulting in a performance percentage of 134% (as noted in the box below), resulting in a performance percentage of 132%.

 

LOGO

     
Performance Metric 

    Threshold    

(40% Payout)

 

Target

(100% Payout)

 

    Maximum    

(200% Payout)

     Performance    
Percentage
      

 

LOGO

      
     

Return on Invested Capital

 11.0% 

 

14.0%

 

 19.0% 

 

134%

 

Under the LTCIP,LTIP, we define ROIC asafter-tax operating incomeprofit from continuing operations adjusted to exclude the effect of special charges and certain othernon-recurring income and expenses, divided by adjusted invested capital. Adjusted invested capital includes shareholders’ equity, which we adjust to add back the cumulativeafter-tax impact of goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges and to exclude


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the impact of certainnon-operating income and expenses and the effects of special charges, plus short-term and long-term debt minus cash.

For the calculation of ROIC for the 2017-2019 performance period, cash was adjusted for the cash outflow related to the Kichler Lighting and Mercury Plastics acquisitions ($638 million) and the cash proceeds related to our divestiture of our Milgard windows business (less the proceeds used for share repurchases and debt reduction) ($65 million), as these transactions were not anticipated at the time the ROIC goals were established. In addition, debt was adjusted for our debt reduction in 2019 ($201 million). Our Compensation Committee believes that these adjustments are important to reflect our actual investment at the time we invested in our current businesses.

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The following shows our ROIC in 2015, 20162017, 2018 and 20172019 taking these adjustments into account:

 

  
   

ROIC     

As Reported     

 

  

ROIC     

As Adjusted     

Under LTCIP     

 

  

 

2015

 

  

 

26.1%    

 

  

 

11.6%    

 

  

 

   2016

 

  

 

40.1%    

 

  

 

14.0%    

 

  

 

2017

 

  

 

43.2%    

 

  

 

15.3%    

 

  

 

   2015-2017 Three-Year Average

 

      

 

13.6%    

 

   
   ROIC     As Reported     ROIC
    As Adjusted Under LTIP     
   

2017

 36.9% 15.3%
   

2018

 35.7% 15.6%
   

2019

 35.7% 16.2%
   

2017-2019 Three-Year Average

   15.7%

Compensation Paid Under the 2015-2017 LTCIP2017-2019 LTIP

The following table reflects the cash awards paidPRSUs granted to our executive officers at the beginning of the 2017-2019 three-year performance period, and the amount of stock earned by our executive officers at the end of the three-year period under the 2015-2017 LTCIP. Except for Mr. Allman, we2017-2019 LTIP. We calculated the award amount earned by multiplying the target opportunity fornumber of PRSUs granted to each executive officer at the beginning of the three-year performance period by 132%134%, the performance percentage achieved, and multiplyingachieved. Based on SEC rules, this component of our executive’s compensation was reflected in our 2017 Summary Compensation Table, the result by each executive officer’s base salaryyear in 2015. Mr. Allman’swhich the PRSUs were granted under the 2017-2019 LTIP, assuming the target opportunity foraward would be earned at the 2015-2017 LTCIP was set at $1,650,000. We calculated Mr. Allman’s award amount by multiplying $1,650,000 byend of the performance percentage achieved.three-year period.

 

   
Name

  

Target   
Opportunity   

 

    

Payout   
Percentage   

 

    

Base Salary   
in 2015
($)   

 

    

2015 –2017    

LTCIP Cash    

Award ($)    

 

     2017-2019 LTIP     
PRSU Grant
        Payout
    Percentage    
        

2017-2019 LTIP-

      Stock Earned      
(#)

 

    2017-2019 LTIP-    

Stock Earned ($)

   

Keith J. Allman

  $1,650,000   

 

 ×   

 

  132%   

 

   n/a   

 

 =   

 

  2,178,000    

 

 51,080 × 134% = 68,447 3,390,180
   

John G. Sznewajs

  75%

 

 ×   

 

  132%   

 

 ×   

 

  625,000

 

 =   

 

  618,800    

 

 14,670 × 134% = 19,657 973,611
   

Joseph B. Gross

 9,570 × 134% = 12,823 635,123
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

  75%

 

 ×   

 

  132%   

 

 ×   

 

  450,000

 

 =   

 

  445,500    

 

 11,060 × 134% = 14,820 734,035
   

Kenneth G. Cole

  65%

 

 ×   

 

  132%   

 

 ×   

 

  365,000

 

 =   

 

  313,200    

 

 

Christopher K. Kastner

  50%

 

 ×   

 

  132%   

 

 ×   

 

  350,000

 

 =   

 

  231,000    

 

Jai Shah

 7,720 × 134% = 10,344 512,338

PRSUs Granted Under the 2017-20192019-2021 LTIP

The following table reflects the PRSUs granted to our executive officers under the 2017-20192019-2021 LTIP. The amounts reflected in the PRSU Grant column are based upon the number of PRSUs granted on March 22, 2017,21, 2019, which we valued at $33.92$39.11 per share, the closing price of our stock on the day of the grant, and assuming the target award would be earned at the end of the three-year performance period under our LTIP.period. The actual number of shares of stock awarded, if any, will be determined after the three-year performance period endingconcludes on December 31, 2019.2021.

 

       
   Name

 

  

Target   
Opportunity   

 

    

 

Base   
Salary   
as of   
3/22/2017   

 

    

 

Stock   
Price on   
3/22/2017   
($)   

 

    

2017-2019   
LTIP PRSU   
Grant (#)   

 

       

Keith J. Allman

 

  150%   

 

 ×   

 

  1,155,000   

 

 ÷   

 

  33.92   

 

 =   

 

  51,080   

 

       

John G. Sznewajs

 

  75%   

 

 ×   

 

  663,300   

 

 ÷   

 

  33.92   

 

 =   

 

  14,670   

 

       

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

  75%   

 

 ×   

 

  500,000   

 

 ÷   

 

  33.92   

 

 =   

 

  11,060   

 

       

Kenneth G. Cole

 

  65%   

 

 ×   

 

  427,500   

 

 ÷   

 

  33.92   

 

 =   

 

  8,190   

 

       

Christopher K. Kastner

 

  50%   

 

 ×   

 

  385,000   

 

 ÷   

 

  33.92   

 

 =   

 

  6,240   

 


        
Name Target
    Opportunity    
            Base Salary as    
of 3/21/2019
($)
        Stock Price
    on 3/21/2019    
($)
        

    2019-2021 LTIP    

PRSU Grant (#)

        

Keith J. Allman

 167% × 1,201,200 ÷ 39.11 = 51,190
        

John G. Sznewajs

 75% × 703,700 ÷ 39.11 = 13,490
        

Joseph B. Gross

 75% × 500,000 ÷ 39.11 = 9,590
        

Richard A. O’Reagan

 75% × 551,300 ÷ 39.11 = 10,570
        

Jai Shah

 75% × 525,000 ÷ 39.11 = 10,070

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Stock Options Granted in 20172019

We grant stock options annually to our executive officers. The value of the stock option grants approximates the equity target opportunity for each executive officer with respect to our annual performance program. Our Compensation Committee believes that stock options are an important component of our executive compensation program because they align our executive officers’ long-term interests with those of our stockholders by reinforcing the goal of long-term share price appreciation. In 2017,2019, our Compensation Committee awarded to our executive officers the following stock options to our executive officers that vest ratablyin equal installments over five years:

 

    
Name     Stock Options    
Awarded (#)
 

Option

    Exercise Price    
($)

 

    Value of Stock Options    

Awarded ($)

(b)

    

Keith J. Allman

 227,240 35.52 2,001,507
    

John G. Sznewajs

 62,430 35.52 549,877
    

Joseph B. Gross (a)

 42,570 35.52 374,952
    

Richard A. O’Reagan

 46,940 35.52 413,443
    

Jai Shah

 44,700 35.52 393,713

Stock options awarded to Mr. Gross (row a): On June 18, 2019, we entered into an agreement with Mr. Gross in connection with his accepting responsibility to lead our windows and cabinetry businesses through the divestiture process. Under the agreement, and upon its execution date, the 42,570 stock options granted to Mr. Gross on February 7, 2019 (reflected in the table above) were cancelled in exchange for a restricted stock award of 10,560 shares. The value of the restricted stock granted to Mr. Gross is equal to the value of the stock options granted to Mr. Gross on February 7, 2019. The shares of restricted stock will vest in five equal installments of 20%.

   
   Name

 

  Stock Options  
Awarded (#)

 

Option

   Exercise   
Price ($)

 

Value of Stock
Options Awarded ($) (a)

 

   

 

Keith J. Allman

 

 

173,250

 

 

33.75

 

 

1,675,328

 

   

 

   John G. Sznewajs

 

55,000

 

33.75

 

531,850

 

   

 

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

 

37,500

 

 

33.75

 

 

362,625

 

   

 

   Kenneth G. Cole

 

27,790

 

33.75

 

268,729

 

   

 

Christopher K. Kastner

 

 

21,180

 

 

33.75

 

 

204,811

 

Value of Stock Options Awarded (column a)b):The value of stock options awarded is This column shows the aggregate grant date fair value of the stock options awarded, calculated in accordance with accounting guidance.

Other Components of our Executive Compensation Program

Base Salary

We pay our executive officers a base salary to provide each of them with a minimum, base level of cash compensation. During 2017, our Compensation Committee engaged its independent compensation consultant, Semler Brossy Consulting Group, LLC (“Semler Brossy”), to perform a competitive analysis of CEO pay levels within our peer group, as well as for similarly situated companies outside of that group.

In determining the appropriate compensationbase salary adjustments for our other executive officers, our Compensation Committee conducts a review with our CEO of the performance and contributions of our executive officers in the prior year;year and, in consultation with Semler Brossy, the Committee’s outside compensation consultant, considers market survey data in published executive compensation surveys for companies with annual revenues similar to ours and significant changes in the scope and complexity of the executive officer’s role; and receives input from Semler Brossy.role.

Based on our Compensation Committee’s review and analysis, and our Board’s assessment of Mr. Allman’s performance, our Compensation Committee approved the following base salary increases:increases in 2019:

 

  

Name

Previous Base
Salary ($)

 

Salary
Increase
    Percentage    

 

Current Base
Salary ($)

 

     Previous Base    
Salary ($)
     Salary Increase    
Percentage
     Current Base    
Salary ($)
  

Keith J. Allman

 

1,155,000

 

 

4%

 

 

1,201,200

 

 1,201,200 3% 1,237,236
  

John G. Sznewajs

663,300

 

3%

 

683,200

 

 703,700 3% 724,811
  
Joseph B. Gross 500,000 3% 515,000
 

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

500,000

 

 

5%

 

 

525,000

 

 551,300 3% 567,839
 

Kenneth G. Cole

427,500

 

4%

 

445,000

 

 

Christopher K. Kastner

 

385,000

 

 

5%

 

 

405,000

 

Mr. Shah’s base salary was previously adjusted when he was promoted to the position of Group President in November 2018.


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Perquisites and Other Compensation

We offer a limited number of perquisites to our executive officers, as follows:

 

Personal use of our Company aircraft, which we maintain for business purposes. Our Compensation Committee has evaluated our policies and valuation practices for such personal use, of these aircraft, and our Board has requested that our CEO use our aircraft for both business and personal travel, with personal travel subject to prior approval by the ChairmanChair of our Board. We may occasionally permit other executive officers to use our aircraft for personal travel.

 

An estate and financial planning program to assist them in financial planning and tax preparation. This program provides up to $10,000 per year.

 

Relocation benefits, which may include reimbursement for certain moving and temporary living expenses and cash for incidental costs, related to relocation.and travel allowances.

Retirement Programs

We maintain the following defined contribution retirement plans for all of our employees, including our executive officers:

 

401(k) Savings Plan: Our 401(k) Savings Plan is atax-qualified plan that includes a matching and profit sharing component, if applicable.

 

Benefits Restoration Plan (“BRP”): Our BRP enables all of our highly-compensated employees to obtain the full financial benefit of the 401(k) Savings Plan, notwithstanding various limitations imposed on the plansplan under the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”).

Our executive officers may also be entitled to receive benefits under the following frozen defined benefit plans:

 

Masco Corporation Pension Plan;

 

BRP applicable to the Masco Corporation Pension Plan; and

 

Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (“SERP”): Mr. Sznewajs is the only current executive officer eligible to receive benefits under athe SERP.

In 2010, we froze accruals in all of these defined benefit plans, as well as in all of our otherthe defined benefit plans offered to our U.S. employees. Consequently, the pension benefits ultimately payable to executive officers are essentially fixed, although Mr. Sznewajs’sSznewajs’ vesting in the frozen accrued SERP benefit has continued. Mr. Sznewajs will not be fully vested in his frozen SERP benefit unless he continues to be employed with us until he is age 55, or we experience a change in control (see “Payments“Payment Upon a Change in Control” below).


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OUR EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

We Provide Long-Term Equity Incentives

We believe that having a significant ownership interest in our stock is critical to aligning the interests of our executive officers with the long-term interests of our stockholders. Accordingly, awards of restricted stock awardsunits and stock options are important components of our executive officers’ compensation. Our equity awards are priced based on the closing price on the date of grant, unless the grant date occurs within seventen days prior to the release of our financial results. In that event, the grant is effective at the end of the secondfirst trading day after the release of theour financial results and priced based on the closing price of our common stock on that date. OurBeginning with grants made in 2020, and in line with competitive practice, our restricted stock units and stock options vest in equal installments over three years. Grants of restricted stock awards and stock options made prior to 2020 vest in 20%equal installments over five years. Five-year vesting defers the executives’ realization of the full benefit of equity-based compensation for a substantial period of time and is longer than typical market practice. The value our executive officers ultimately realize from equity awards depends on the long-term performance of our

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common stock. Further, equity awards do not vest immediately upon retirement. Instead, following retirement, equity awards generally continue to vest in accordance withover the remaining vesting period. Our executive officers understand that our performance will continue to impact them financially even after they retire, thereby reinforcing their focus on thedriving long-term enhancement of stockholder value.

We Have a Long-Term Incentive Program

Through our stockholder engagement we learned that our stockholders strongly support a performanceperformance-based compensation program that measures performance over several years. Based on this feedback, in 2012, we implemented our LTCIP,long-term incentive program, which measures performance over a three-year period. For the 2015-20172019-2021 performance period we measuredare measuring performance based on ROIC. As a result, a significant portion of our executive officers’ compensation opportunity is based on the achievement of a long-termthree-year performance goal.

In 2017, to further align our executives’ compensation with the interests of our stockholders, our Compensation Committee modified our long-term incentive program by replacing the cash award with PRSUs. Beginning in 2017, PRSUs will beare granted to our executive officers at the beginning of each three-year performance period under the LTIP. The grant of PRSUs may entitle our executive officers to receive shares of our stock if we achieve a performance goal over a three-year period. In 2019, our executive officers will continue to have the opportunity to receive a performance award in cash in connection with the 2016-2018 LTCIP performance period.

We Can Clawback Incentive Compensation

If we restate our financial statements, other than as a result of changes to accounting rules or regulations, our Compensation Committee may clawback or recover from our executives incentive compensation that was paid or granted in the three-year period prior to the restatement, regardless of whether misconduct caused the restatement.

We Require Minimum Levels of Stock Ownership by ourOur Executives

We require minimum stock ownership for our executive officers to further reinforce the alignment of their long-term financial interests with the interests of our stockholders. This requirement ensures that our executive officers maintain a substantial investment in our common stock and that a meaningful amount of each executive officer’s personal net worth is invested in our Company. Our executive officers are required to achieve the stock ownership necessary to meet the stock ownershipthese requirements within three years of becoming subject to them.

Our Compensation Committee reviews our executive officers’ ownership of our common stock annually to ensure compliance with our stock ownership guidelines. Our executive officers’ direct stock holdings, unvested restricted stock awards and unvested restricted stock awardsunits (but not unvested PRSUs) are counted toward satisfaction of the guidelines. As of December 31, 2017,2019, when the closing price of our common stock was $43.94,$47.99, each of our executive officers met the stock ownership requirement.

 


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Name

 

Minimum Stock Ownership
Requirements

 

 

Actual Ownership

 

Minimum Stock  Ownership
Requirements
Actual  Ownership
  
Name

Multiple of   
Base Salary   

 

 

Multiple Expressed    
in Dollars as of    
12/31/2017 ($)    

 

 

Multiple of   

Base Salary   

 

 

 

Value of Shares   
Held by Executive   
as of   
12/31/2017 ($)   

 

Multiple of
Base Salary
Multiple Expressed
in Dollars as of
12/31/2019 ($)

Multiple of

  Base Salary  

Value of Shares
   Held by Executive as of  
12/31/2019 ($)
 

Keith J. Allman

 6       

 

 7,207,200    

 

 12.4       

 

 14,911,654       

 

6

7,423,416

15.2

18,861,174

     
John G. Sznewajs

 

3       

 

 

2,049,600    

 

 

14.5       

 

 

9,939,008       

 

3

2,174,433

14.1

10,218,511

     

Joseph B. Gross

2

1,030,000

4.9

2,529,553

  

Richard A. O’Reagan

 2       

 

 1,050,000    

 

 5.8       

 

 3,064,200       

 

2

1,135,678

3.7

2,076,911

     
Kenneth G. Cole

 

2       

 

 

890,000    

 

 

7.9       

 

 

3,510,411       

 

   

Christopher K. Kastner

 2       

 

 810,000    

 

 3.9       

 

 1,560,925       

 

Jai Shah

2

1,050,000

14.2

7,448,816

We AdoptedOur Equity Awards Have Double-Trigger Change of Control Provisions for our Equity Awards

The terms of our unvested equity awards granted after 2012 provide that the awards will vest only if there is both a change in control of our Company and the recipient of the award is terminated from employment at the time of the change in control or

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within two years after the change in control, or terminates employment for good reason (for example, if his or her job duties have been significantly diminished) (“double-trigger” vesting), or if the recipient’s awards are not replaced with comparable awards by the acquiring company.

Our Compensation Committee ConductsOversees an Annual Compensation Risk Evaluation

Our Compensation Committee annually conductsoversees a risk assessment of our compensation programs, including our executive compensation programs, focusing on the components of our compensation programs and analyzing whether those components present undue risk to us. In 2017,2018, our Compensation Committee reviewed itsthe risk assessment process to assure it reflects current best practices. As a result of this review, our Compensation Committee incorporated in itsthe risk assessment incorporates consideration of the components of our compensation programs and whether they may present undue risk to us and of our material business risks and their potential impact on our compensation programs. The Compensation Committee has concluded that our programs do not encourage excessive risk taking. While the total compensation program is designed to balance short- and long-term rewards, the largest portion of the compensation opportunity for our executive officers is through equity-based long-term incentives. Executive officers are also required to own a substantial amount of our stock to further encourage a long-term perspective. Our annual cash bonus and stock award programs, LTCIPperformance program and LTIP have established maximum payout opportunities in line with competitive practice.

The Structure of ourOur Compensation Programs EncouragesEncourage Executive Retention and ProtectsProtect Us

We believe several features of our compensation programs, including the terms and conditions of our equity plan, improve our retention of our executive officers and also reduce the potential that executive officers might engage in post-termination conduct that would be harmful to us. OurThe terms of our equity awards provide that our executive officers generally forfeit unvested awards of restricted stock and restricted stock units, stock options and performance-based restricted stock unitsPRSUs when their employment terminates prior to retirement. Additionally, executive officers may only exercise vested options for a limited period of time following termination. The terms of our awards prohibit our executive officers from competing with us for one year after termination. If an executive officer violates this restriction, we can recover the gain the executive officer realized from awards that vested within two years prior to termination.


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We Prohibit Excise TaxGross-Up Payments

Our Board has adopted a policy prohibiting excise taxgross-up payments, except for such payments committed to in equity awards and frozen SERP agreements entered into prior to 2012. Specifically, equity awards made in 2012 and thereafter are not included for purposes of determining future excise taxgross-up payments. With the exception ofThe only tax equalizationgross-up payments madewe provide to our employees are those made in connection with reimbursement of relocation or foreign expatriate expenses incurred at our request, we do not provide any other taxgross-up payments.request.

We Prohibit Hedging and Pledging

Our anti-hedging and anti-pledging policy prohibits our directors, executive officers and all other employees subject to our directorsregular quarterly blackout periods from engaging in any hedging transactions (including transactions involving options, puts, calls, prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds or other derivatives) that are designed to hedge or speculate on any change in the market value of our equity or debt securities. Additionally, our executive officers and directorssuch individuals are prohibited from making any future purchases of our securities on margin or from pledging our securities as collateral for a loan, unless the arrangement is preapproved by our Governance Committee for any executiveapplicable employee or by our Board for any director.

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We Do Not Have Contractual Termination ArrangementsEmployment Agreements

Our executive officers do not have employment contractsagreements and are“at-will” employees who may be terminated at our discretion. We believe this preserves greater flexibility in our employment arrangements with our executive officers. Our executive officers also do not have change in control or severance contracts, although, at our discretion, we have, from time to time, enteredmay enter into severance arrangements with departing executive officers. For further discussion regarding change in control, see “Payments“Payment Upon Change In Control” below.

OUR ANNUAL COMPENSATION REVIEW PROCESS

We review and make decisions regarding the amount of eligible annual performance-based restricted stock awards,units, cash bonus payments, LTIP PRSU grants and stock option grants in the first quarter of the year. We believe that determining these elements of compensation together at the beginning of the year gives us a better foundation for establishing our performance criteria and opportunity levels for the current year. This practice also betterapproach enables our Compensation Committee to determineholistically consider our executive officers’ appropriate compensation mix and to align compensation with ongoing talent review and development in conjunction withconsider the inputs gathered through our annual talent management talent review and development process.review.

Annual Management Talent Review and Development Process

Our annual management talent review and development process is used by our Compensation Committee and our CEO in making compensation decisions and for succession planning purposes. As part of this process, our CEO provides our Compensation Committee with an assessment of each executive who reports to him. The assessment includes an evaluation of each executive’s performance, development, progress and plans and potential for advancement, and considers market demand for the executive’s skill set. Our Compensation Committee also receives information, analyses and recommendations from our Vice President, Chief Human Resource Officer. While our Compensation Committee gives significant weight to the evaluations by our CEO, the final determination of compensation to be paid to our executive officers, including our CEO, rests solely with our Compensation Committee.


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Compensation Data Considered by our Compensation Committee

Tally Sheets

Our Compensation Committee reviews a tally sheet that summarizes the various components of total compensation for our executive officers and other members of management. The tally sheet includes base salary, annual performance-based restricted stock award and cash bonus LTCIP awards,payment, LTIP award, stock options, dividends on unvested shares of restricted stock, and our costs for the foregoing and for perquisites and other benefits, including the annual costs under retirement plans. The tally sheet allows our Compensation Committee to compare an executive officer’s compensation with the compensation of our other executive officers as part of its consideration of internal and external pay equity. Amounts actually realized by an executive officer from prior equity grants are not necessarily a factor in establishing current compensation, although the current value of outstanding equity awards may be considered by our Compensation Committee when assessing pay equity.

Market Data

Our Compensation Committee also reviews compensation for each of our executive officers with compensation information disclosed in the proxy statements of our peer group and with AonHewitt’s and Willis Towers Watson’s published compensation surveys for companies with annual revenues between $5 and $10 billion. When we achieve targeted levels of performance, our executive compensation program seeks to provide total target compensation (base salary, target annual bonus and the target value of long-term incentives) at approximately the median compensation level provided to executives in comparable positions at these companies. While our Compensation Committee

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generally targets total compensation for each executive officer at the median, it considers other factors, such as performance, the officer’s roles and responsibilities and the length of time the officer has served in the current position. Our Compensation Committee also reviews actual compensation paid as reported in published surveys and by our peer group to help inform individual pay decisions. We believe understanding market data allows us to attract and retain the talent we need while enabling us to manage our compensation expense.

The following table shows how our current executive officers’ target compensation and actual compensation in 2017 compared to market data published in 2017. Actual compensation is defined as the sum of base salary, actual cash bonuses paid under our annual program and under our LTCIP, and the grant date fair value of restricted stock awards and stock options.

   Executive Officer

Comparison to Market Compensation

2017 Target Compensation 

2017 Actual Compensation 

Keith J. Allman

President and Chief Executive Officer

Between the 50th and 75th  percentile 

Between the 50th and 75th  percentile 

   John G. Sznewajs
   Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Between the 50th and  75th percentile 

Between the 50th and 75th percentile 

Richard A. O’Reagan

Group President, Global Plumbing

Between the 25th and 50th  percentile 

Approximately 50th percentile 

   Kenneth G. Cole
   Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Between the 25th and  50th percentile 

Approximately 50th percentile 

Christopher K. Kastner

Vice President, Masco Operating System

Between the 25th and 50th  percentile 

Approximately 50th percentile 


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Pay-for-Performance Alignment

Finally, our Compensation Committee reviews the overallpay-for-performance alignment of our CEO’s compensation compared to our peer group overone-year and three-year periods. During 2017,2019, our Compensation Committee reviewed data showing that our total stockholdershareholder return was above allat the 37th percentile of our peers and at the 82ndpercentile of the S&P 500 for the three-year period ended December 31, 2016. While our2018. Our CEO’s target compensation and realizable compensation each approximated the median of our peer group during this three-year period, our CEO’s realizable compensation was at the 33rdpercentile of our peer group.period. We definedefined realizable compensation as the sum of salary, actual cash bonus the target value of long-term cash incentives,payments and the value of restricted stockequity awards and stock options based on our stock price as of December 31, 2016. The Compensation Committee believes there is good alignment between compensation paid to our CEO and our performance.2018.

Our Peer Group

Given the many and diverse businesses in which we operate, composition of an appropriate peer group is challenging, as historically there have been few companies providing a mix of products similar to ours.challenging. Our Compensation Committee periodicallyannually considers the composition of our peer group and revised our peer group in 2017 by removing Textron Inc. and The Valspar Corporation and addingJELD-WEN Holding, Inc. Our Compensation Committee believes that our current peer group listed below reflects the companies with whom we compete with for executive talent and that have a range of annual revenues and business and operational characteristics similar to ours.

 

  Current Peer Group of Companies

Dover Corporation

Owens Corning

Fortive Corp.

  

Owens Corning

Parker-Hannifin Corporation
   Fortive Corp.

Parker-Hannifin Corporation

Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.

  

Pentair plc

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

  

PPG Industries, Inc.

Ingersoll-Rand plc

RPM International Inc.

JELD-WEN Holding, Inc.

  

RPM International Inc.

   JELD-WEN Holding, Inc.

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

Mohawk Industries, Inc.

The Sherwin-Williams Company

Newell Rubbermaid Inc.

  

The Sherwin-Williams Company

   Newell Rubbermaid Inc.

Whirlpool Corporation

Retention of Discretion by our Compensation Committee

Our approach to executive compensation emphasizes corporate rather than individual performance, echoing our operating strategy that encourages collaboration and cooperation among our businesses and corporate functions. We believe that the effectiveness of our executive compensation programs requires not only objective, formula-based arrangements, but also the exercise of discretion and sound business judgment by our Compensation Committee. Accordingly, our Compensation Committee retains discretion to adjust the mix of cash and equity compensation, adjust the mix of restricted stock units and stock options awarded, and offer different forms of equity-based compensation. With this discretion, our Compensation Committee is best able to reward the individual contributions of each executive officer and to respond to an executive’s expanding responsibilities, market practices and our changing business needs.

In addition to granting performance-based restricted stock units based on prior year performance, our Compensation Committee also has the discretion to award shares of time-based restricted stock units to our executive officers, other than our CEO, if it determines that an executive officer has made outstanding individual contributions during the prior year. The total value of these awards cannot exceed 20% of the combined annual base salaries of the executive officers (excluding the salary of our CEO). No discretionary awards were made in 2017.2019.


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Outside Compensation Consultant

Our Compensation Committee has engaged Semler Brossy Consulting Group, LLC (Semler Brossy) as its compensation consultant. Semler Brossy was chosen by our Compensation Committee based on its deep experience in the area of executive compensation and its creative and proactive approach in analyzing executive compensation practices and programs. During 2017,2019, Semler Brossy attended Compensation Committee meetings, met with our Compensation Committee in executive sessions without our executive officers or other members of management and met individually with our Compensation Committee members and our Compensation Committee Chair, andChair. Semler Brossy advised our Compensation Committee on its overall implementation of our compensation objectives, on the Company’s peer group, on director compensation practices and on the compensation for our executive officers.officers, including performing a competitive analysis of CEO and CFO pay levels within our peer group, as well as for similarly situated companies outside of that group. After considering the factors promulgated by the SEC for assessing the independence of its advisers, our Compensation Committee has determined that the work of Semler Brossy has not raised any conflict of interest.

TAX TREATMENT

Effective through December 31, 2017, Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code limited the deductibility of annual compensation in excess of $1 million paidPrior to 2018, our executive officers, unless, historically, this compensation qualified as “performance-based.” Our stockholder-approved plan permitted our Compensation Committee to grant cash and equity awards intended to qualify as “performance-based” under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code so that they may be deductible. Our Compensation Committee, however, believed ittax-deductible. Because this law was amended in our interest to retain flexibilityDecember 2017 by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, compensation in our compensation programs. Consequently, in some circumstances, we have paid compensation that may not qualify as deductible under Section 162(m).

The exemption from Section 162(m)’s deduction limit for performance-based compensation was repealed, effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. As a result, future compensationexcess of $1 million paid to our executive officers in excess of $1 milliongenerally will not be deductible unless itthe compensation qualifies for certain transition relief applicable to certain arrangements in place as of November 2, 2017.relief.

CONCLUSION

We recognize the importance of attracting and retaining executive officers who can effectively lead our business, and in motivating them to maximize our corporate performance and createdrive long-term value for our stockholders. We believe in rewarding our executive officers to a significant degree based on our performance. We continue to thoughtfully and thoroughly analyze our compensation practices and programs and to regularly reach out to a significant number of our stockholders to understand their perspectives regarding our compensation programs. We believe our compensation practices and programs strongly align our executive officers’ interests with the long-term interests of stockholders, reward our executive officers based on our performance and incentivize them to focus on our criticalstrategic business objectives.


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Compensation Committee ReportCOMPENSATION COMMITTEE REPORT

The Organization and Compensation Committee, which is responsible for overseeing the Company’s executive compensation programs, has reviewed and discussed the Compensation Discussion and Analysis with management. Based on our review and discussion, the Organization and Compensation Committee recommended to the Board of Directors that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in Masco’sMasco Corporation’s proxy statement.

Donald R. Parfet, Chair

Marie A. Ffolkes

J. Michael Losh

Christopher A. O’Herlihy

Lisa A. Payne

Mary Ann Van Lokeren


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ProposalPROPOSAL 2: Advisory Vote to Approve the Compensation of Our Named Executive OfficersADVISORY VOTE TO APPROVE THE COMPENSATION OF OUR NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

We are seeking your advisory vote approving the compensation paid to our named executive officers (whom we refer to as “executive officers” in this Proposal 2). We believe the structure of our executive compensation programs promotes the long-term interests of our stockholders by attracting and retaining talented executives and motivating them to achieve our criticalstrategic business objectives and to createdrive long-term value for our stockholders.

At our 20172019 Annual Meeting, we submitted anon-binding advisory proposal to our stockholders to approve the compensation paid to our executive officers (a“say-on-pay proposal”). We also submitted a proposal to our shareholders at our 2017 Annual Meeting, as to the frequency of seeking theirnon-binding approval of oursay-on-pay proposal and determined that such vote will occur annually. Approximately 98%95% of the votes cast on oursay-on-pay proposal approved the compensation paid to our executive officers. We believe that this strong approval resulted from our continued focus onpay-for-performance.

We delivered solid financial results in 2017, and in doing so, ourOur executive officers earned compensation pursuant to ourthe following performance-based compensation programs.

 

Our 20172019 annual performance program was based on operating profit and working capital as a percent of sales goals. We achieved a performance percentage of 119%77%, and as a result, consistent with our commitment topay-for-performance, our executive officers earned restricted stock awardsunits and cash bonuses based on this achievement.

 

Our 2015-2017 Long Term Cash2017-2019 Long-Term Incentive Program was based on return on invested capital (“ROIC”). For the three-year period 2015-2017,2017-2019, we exceeded the target ROIC goal and achieved a performance percentage of 132%134%.

Our executive officers’ potential performance-based compensation represents a significant percentage of total annual target compensation. In 2017,2019, the percentage of total target compensation (base salary, target annual cash bonus and restricted stock awardunits and the target value of long-term incentives) that was performance-based was 86%87% for our CEO and 73%75% for our other executive officers.

We believe that having a significant ownership interest in our stock is critical to aligning the interests of our executive officers with the long-term interests of our stockholders. Accordingly, equity grants in the form of restricted stock awardsunits and stock options are an important component of compensation for our executive officers. In 2017, we modified our long-term incentive program by replacing the cash award with performance-based restricted stock units.

Our Board recommends a vote FOR the following resolution providing an advisory approval of the compensation paid to our named executive officers:

RESOLVED, that the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the compensation tables and the related materials disclosed in this proxy statement, is hereby approved.

Although the vote on this proposal is advisory andnon-binding, our Compensation Committee and our Board will review and consider the result of the vote when making future determinations regarding our executive compensation programs. The affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by shares entitled to vote thereon is required for the approval of the foregoing resolution. Abstentions and brokernon-votes are not counted as votes cast, and therefore do not affect the approval of the resolution.


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Compensation of Executive Officers

SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE

The following table reports compensation earned during the years indicated by Mr. Allman, our principal executive officer, Mr. Sznewajs, our principal financial officer, and Messrs. Gross, O’Reagan Cole and Kastner,Shah, our three other most highly compensated executive officers in 2017.2019. We refer to the individuals listed in the table collectively as our “executive officers.”

20172019 SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE

 

   

Name and

Principal Position

    Year    

(a)

   Salary ($)   

(b)

Stock

   Awards ($)   

(c)

Option

   Awards ($)   

(d)

Non-Equity

Incentive

Plan

   Compensation ($)   

(e)

Change in

   Pension Value   

and Non-

Qualified

Deferred

Compensation

Earnings ($)

(f)

All Other

   Compensation ($)   

(g)

   Total ($)   

(h)

 Year 

(b)

Salary ($)

(c)

Stock

Awards ($)

(d)

Option

Awards ($)

(e)

Non-Equity

Incentive

Plan

Compensation ($)

(f)

Change in

Pension Value

and Non-

Qualified

Deferred

Compensation

Earnings ($)

(g)

All Other

Compensation ($)

(h)

Total ($)
  

Keith J. Allman

President and Chief
Executive Officer

2017

 

1,177,212

 

3,876,629

 

1,675,328

 

4,322,100

 

48,027

 

405,144

 

11,504,440

 

2019

1,227,542

3,590,018

2,001,507

1,429,000

141,195

270,101

8,659,363

2016

 

1,126,654

 

2,442,825

 

1,327,054

 

4,224,800

 

33,376

 

611,019

 

9,765,728

 

2018

1,201,200

3,783,562

2,087,694

4,243,600

320,383

11,636,439

2015

 

 

998,461

 

 

2,376,001

 

 

1,595,550

 

 

3,051,000

 

 

 

 

321,407

 

 

8,342,419

 

 

2017

1,177,212

3,876,629

1,675,328

4,322,100

48,027

405,144

11,504,440

  

John G. Sznewajs

Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer

2017

 

672,867

 

1,107,228

 

531,850

 

1,228,600

 

462,362

 

141,241

 

4,144,148

 

2019

719,134

946,333

549,877

418,600

1,132,455

87,993

3,854,392

2016

 

653,353

 

701,325

 

442,351

 

1,320,200

 

257,598

 

128,344

 

3,503,171

 

2018

698,185

981,886

573,512

1,242,500

86,851

3,582,934

2015

 

 

634,354

 

 

695,403

 

 

531,850

 

 

1,490,500

 

 

 

 

100,767

 

 

3,452,874

 

 

2017

672,867

1,107,228

531,850

1,228,600

462,362

141,241

4,144,148

Richard A. O’Reagan

Group President, Global
Plumbing

2017

 

512,019

 

843,641

 

362,625

 

914,100

 

4,303

 

104,380

 

2,741,068

 

2016

 

481,188

 

528,863

 

279,888

 

528,700

 

3,147

 

102,351

 

1,924,137

 

2015

 

 

456,646

 

 

500,506

 

 

328,780

 

 

500,500

 

 

 

 

83,587

 

 

1,870,019

 

 

Kenneth G. Cole

Vice President, General
Counsel and Secretary

2017

 

435,914

 

622,007

 

268,729

 

657,400

 

12,328

 

86,700

 

2,083,078

 

2016

 

421,058

 

391,838

 

217,154

 

666,400

 

8,911

 

81,955

 

1,787,316

 

        

Christopher K. Kastner

Vice President, Masco
Operating System

2017

 

394,616

 

476,659

 

204,811

 

496,100

 

 

75,537

 

1,647,723

 

2016

 

366,962

 

298,688

 

140,748

 

298,600

 

 

66,898

 

1,171,896

 

2015

 

 

350,000

 

 

957,279

 

 

430,315

 

 

252,000

 

 

 

 

260,613

 

 

2,250,207

 

 

  

Joseph B. Gross (a)

Group President

2019

510,970

1,072,299

374,952

297,400

64,563

2,320,184

  

Richard A. O’Reagan

Group President

2019

563,388

741,350

413,443

327,900

13,895

75,926

2,135,902

2018

544,222

761,881

410,706

924,200

78,128

2,719,137

2017

512,019

843,641

362,625

914,100

4,303

104,380

2,741,068

  

Jai Shah

Group President

2019

525,013

697,079

393,713

303,200

71,450

107,649

2,098,104

2018

439,312

680,686

281,438

817,800

143,914

2,363,150

Compensation paid to Mr. Gross (row a): On June 18, 2019, we entered into an agreement with Mr. Gross in connection with his accepting responsibility to lead our windows and cabinetry businesses through the divestiture process. Under the agreement, and upon its execution date, the 42,570 stock options granted to Mr. Gross on February 7, 2019 (reflected in column e above) were cancelled in exchange for a restricted stock award of 10,560 shares (reflected in column d above). The value of the restricted stock granted to Mr. Gross is equal to the value of the stock options granted to Mr. Gross on February 7, 2019. The shares of restricted stock will vest in five equal installments of 20%. Mr. Gross’ employment with us concluded on February 14, 2020 in connection with the completed divestitures of our windows and cabinetry businesses.

Year (column a)b): Information is included in the table only for those years in which the individual has served as an executive officer and was named in our Summary Compensation Table. Mr. Gross was not a named executive officer for 2018 and 2017 and Mr. Shah was not a named executive officer for 2017.

Salary (column b)c): Salary includes amounts voluntarily deferred by each executive officer as salary reductions under our 401(k) Savings Plan.

Stock Awards (column c)d): This column reports both grants of restricted stock awardsunits for the applicable performance year, and grants of PRSUs made in 20172019 under our LTIP and any other grants of stock, if applicable, as follows:

20172019 STOCK AWARDS

 

   

   Name

 

Restricted Stock
Awards ($)

 

Performance-Based
Restricted Stock
Units ($)

 

     Total ($)     

 

   

Keith J. Allman

 

2,143,996

 

1,732,634

 

3,876,629

 

   

John G. Sznewajs

 

609,621

 

497,606

 

1,107,228

 

   

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

468,486

 

375,155

 

843,641

 

   

Kenneth G. Cole

 

344,202

 

277,805

 

622,007

 

   

Christopher K. Kastner

 

264,998

 

211,661

 

476,659

 


    
  NameRestricted Stock Units ($)Performance-Based
Restricted  Stock Units ($)
Special Grants of
Restricted Stock ($)
      Total ($)      
    

Keith J. Allman

1,587,977

2,002,041

3,590,018

    

John G. Sznewajs

418,739

527,594

946,333

    

Joseph B. Gross

297,538

375,065

399,696

1,072,299

    

Richard A. O’Reagan

327,957

413,393

741,350

    

Jai Shah

303,241

393,838

697,079

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The amounts reflected in the Restricted Stock AwardsUnits column above and in the Stock Awards column c(d) of the Summary Compensation Table are the estimated fair value of the restricted stock award opportunity for the applicable performance year, even though the restricted stock award is not granted until the following year. Although the SEC rules require the estimated fair value to be based on the probable outcome of the performance or service award at the grant date, the Stock Awards column c(d) reflects the actual awards for the 2017, 20162019, 2018 and 20152017 performance year, as applicable, since the grant date for the award occurred when the award was actually determined in early 2018, 20172020, 2019 and 2016,2018, respectively. The threshold, target and maximum dollar values applicable to 20172019 performance are reported in the 20172019 Grants of Plan BasedPlan-Based Awards Table below. Our executive officers do not realize the value of restrictedawards upon vesting, when the shares are issued. Restricted stock units granted for the 2019 performance period vest in equal installments over a three-year vesting period following the grant date. Restricted stock awards until those awardsgranted for the 2017 and 2018 performance periods vest in equal installments over thea five-year vesting period following the grant date.

 

The amounts reflected in the Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units column above and in the Stock Awards column c(d) of the Summary Compensation Table for 20172019 are based upon the number of PRSUs granted on March 22, 201721, 2019 under our LTIP, which we valued at $33.92$39.11 per share, the closing price of our stock on thethat day, of the grant, and assuming the target award would be earned at the end of the three-year performance period under our LTIP. If the maximum goal under our LTIP is achieved or exceeded, the payout to each executive officer would be: $4,004,080 for Mr. Allman; $1,055,550 for Mr. Sznewajs; $285,050 for Mr. Gross (amount is prorated to reflect Mr. Gross’ conclusion of employment with us on February 14, 2020); $826,950 for Mr. O’Reagan; and $787,500 for Mr. Shah. The actual number of shares of stock awarded, if any, will be determined after the three-year performance period endingconcludes on December 31, 2019.2021.

For a description of the special grant of restricted stock made to Mr. Gross, see the footnote, “Compensation paid to Mr. Gross (row a),” above.

Option Awards (column d)e): This column reports the aggregate grant date fair value of stock options, calculated in accordance with accounting guidance. In determining the fair market value of stock options, we used the same assumptions that can be found in the notes to our financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form10-K for the corresponding year. These amounts do not correspond to the actual value the executive officer will realize, which will depend on overall market conditions, the future performance of our common stock and the timing of exercise of the option.

Non-Equity Plan Incentive Compensation (column e)f): The amounts reported in this column are based on the achievement of our performance targets, which are described in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis above, and includereflect the annual performance-based cash bonuses that were earned for the year indicated, based on the achievement of performance targets as described in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis above. The amounts reported in this column for 2018 and 2017, as applicable, also include the performance-based payments under our LTCIPLong Term Cash Incentive Program that were earned for the three-year period ending in the year indicated, as follows:indicated. In 2017, our Compensation Committee modified our long-term incentive program by replacing the cash award with PRSUs, which are granted to our executive officers at the beginning of each three-year performance period.

2017NON-EQUITY PLAN INCENTIVE COMPENSATION

   

   Name

 

Annual

     Performance-Based      

Cash Bonus ($)

 

LTCIP for

     Three-Year Period      

2015-2017 ($)

 

     Total ($)    

 

   

Keith J. Allman

 

2,144,100

 

2,178,000

 

4,322,100

 

   

John G. Sznewajs

 

609,800

 

618,800

 

1,228,600

 

   

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

468,600

 

445,500

 

914,100

 

   

Kenneth G. Cole

 

344,200

 

313,200

 

657,400

 

   

Christopher K. Kastner

 

265,100

 

231,000

 

496,100

 

Change in Pension Value & Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings (column f)g):This column reports changes in the sum ofyear-end pension values, which reflect actuarial factors and variations in interest rates used to calculate present values. Increases in pension values do not represent increased benefit accruals, since benefits in our domestic defined benefit plans were frozen effective January 1, 2010. These values were obtained by comparing the present value of accumulated benefits for December 31 of the year indicated (shown for 20172019 in the “2017“2019 Pension Plan Table”) to the comparable amount for the prior year. We calculated the pension values for each of 2017, 20162019, 2018 and 20152017 using the same assumptions that can be found in the notes to our financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form10-K for the corresponding years. The executive


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officers did not have any above-market earnings under any of the plans in which they participate. The 2017 Summary Compensation Table shows no increases for 2015, since all values decreased due to the effect of rising interest rate assumptions used in the calculations.

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All Other Compensation (column g)h):We provided our executive officers with the following other benefits in 2017:2019:

20172019 ALL OTHER COMPENSATION

 

   

Name

Profit Sharing
and

401(k) Matching

Contributions ($)

 

Financial
Planning
Expense ($)

 

Personal
Use of
Company
Aircraft ($)

 

     Total ($)     

 

  Profit Sharing and  

401(k) Matching

Contributions ($)

Financial
Planning

  Expense ($)  

  Personal Use  

of Company
Aircraft ($)

Relocation

  Benefits ($)  

Tax
Equalization
Gross-up

  Payments ($)  

Other

  Perquisites ($)  

    Total ($)    
   

Keith J. Allman

318,461

 

10,000

 

76,683

 

405,144

 

169,050

10,000

71,145

 

 

19,906

270,101

   

John G. Sznewajs

132,064

 

3,610

 

5,567

 

141,241

 

82,008

5,985

 

 

 

 

87,993

   

Joseph B. Gross

63,773

790

 

 

 

 

64,563

  

Richard A. O’Reagan

104,380

 

 

 

104,380

 

68,364

7,562

 

 

 

 

75,926

   

Kenneth G. Cole

86,700

 

 

 

86,700

 

 

Christopher K. Kastner

75,537

 

 

 

75,537

 

Jai Shah

68,593

4,400

 

32,037

2,619

 

107,649

 

The amounts reflected in the Profit Sharing and 401(k) Matching Contributions column include contributions under the 401(k) Savings Plan and the portions of the Benefit Restoration Plan applicable to that plan.

Total (column h): A significant portion of the year-over-year increase in total compensation for our executive officers in 2017 is a result of our transition in 2017 from cash payments awarded under our LTCIP to PRSUs granted under our LTIP. Based on SEC rules, the cash awards provided under our LTCIP are reported in theNon-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation column following the conclusion of the three-year performance period and the determination of the award. Conversely, we are required to report the grant date fair market value of the PRSUs granted under our LTIP in the Stock Awards column for the year in which the grant was made. For enhanced comparability to the prior years reported in this table, the adjusted total compensation of each executive officer excluding the grant date fair market value of the PRSUs granted in 2017 is as follows:

   Name

Adjusted Total ($)

Keith J. Allman

9,771,806

John G. Sznewajs

3,646,542

Richard A. O’Reagan

2,365,913

Kenneth G. Cole

1,805,273

Christopher K. Kastner

1,436,062


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The relocation benefits and tax equalizationgross-up payment for Mr. Shah are in connection with the sale of his home in 2019 and moving expenses following his required relocation to our corporate headquarters in 2018.

GRANTS OF PLAN-BASED AWARDS

The following table provides information about:

 

the potential payouts available to our executive officers under our 20172019 annual performance-based cash bonus and restricted stock unit award opportunity;

 

the potential payouts available to our executive officers under our 2017-20192019-2021 LTIP; and

 

the actual grants of PRSUs under our 2017-2019 LTIP2019-2021 LTIP;

a special grant of restricted stock we made to Mr. Gross; and

the grants of stock options we made in 20172019 to our executive officers.

Our Compensation Discussion and Analysis above describes our annual performance-based cash bonus and restricted stock unit award opportunities, performance targets, our LTIP and grants of stock options.

20172019 GRANTS OF PLAN-BASED AWARDS

 

        
     Name

 

 

 Grant 

 Date 

 

 

Estimated Future

Payouts Under Non-

Equity Incentive

Plan Awards

 

 

Estimated Future

Payouts Under

Equity Incentive

Plan Awards

 

 

Estimated Future

Payouts Under

Equity Incentive

Plan Awards

 

 

All
Other
Stock
 Awards: 
Number
of

Shares
of Stock
or Units

 

 

All
Other

Option

Awards:

Number

of

Securities

 Underlying 

Options

(a)

 

 

 Exercise 

or Base

Price of
Option

Awards

($ Per
Share)

 

 

Grant

Date

Fair

Value

of Stock

and

Option

Awards

($)

(b)

 

  

 Threshold 

($)

 

 

 Target 

($)

 

 Maximum 

 ($) 

 

 Threshold 

   (#)   

 

  Target  

(#)

 

   Maximum   

(#)

 

 Threshold 

($)

 

Target

($)

 

 Maximum 

($)

    

 

 

Allman

 

 

 

 

N/A-1

 

 

 

720,720

 

 

 

   1,801,800   

 

 

 

3,603,600

 

          
 

 

   3/22/2017   

 

    

 

 

 

 

51,080

 

 

 

102,160

 

    

 

51,080

 

   

 

1,732,634

 

 

 

N/A-2

 

       

 

720,720

 

 

 

 1,801,800 

 

 

 

3,603,600

 

    
 

 

2/10/2017

 

 

           

 

173,250

 

 

 

 

33.75

 

 

 

 

1,675,328

 

 

 

 

 Sznewajs

 

 

 

 

N/A-1

 

 

 

204,960

 

 

 

512,400

 

 

 

1,024,800

 

                    
 

 

3/22/2017

 

       

 

 

 

 

14,670

 

 

 

29,340

 

       

 

14,670

 

     

 

497,606

 

 

 

N/A-2

 

             

 

204,960

 

 

 

512,400

 

 

 

 1,024,800 

 

        
 

 

2/10/2017

 

 

                     

 

55,000

 

 

 

 

33.75

 

 

 

 

531,850

 

 

 

 

O’Reagan

 

 

 

 

N/A-1

 

 

 

157,500

 

 

 

393,750

 

 

 

787,500

 

          
 

 

3/22/2017

 

    

 

 

 

 

11,060

 

 

 

22,120

 

    

 

11,060

 

   

 

375,155

 

 

 

N/A-2

 

       

 

157,500

 

 

 

393,750

 

 

 

787,500

 

    
 

 

2/10/2017

 

 

           

 

37,500

 

 

 

 

33.75

 

 

 

 

362,625

 

 

 

 

   Cole

 

 

 

 

N/A-1

 

 

 

115,700

 

 

 

289,250

 

 

 

578,500

 

                    
 

 

3/22/2017

 

       

 

 

 

 

8,190

 

 

 

16,380

 

       

 

8,190

 

     

 

277,805

 

 

 

N/A-2

 

             

 

115,700

 

 

 

289,250

 

 

 

578,500

 

        
 

 

2/10/2017

 

 

                     

 

27,790

 

 

 

 

33.75

 

 

 

 

268,729

 

 

 

 

Kastner

 

 

 

 

N/A-1

 

 

 

89,100

 

 

 

222,750

 

 

 

445,500

 

          
 

 

3/22/2017

 

    

 

 

 

 

6,240

 

 

 

12,480

 

    

 

6,240

 

   

 

211,661

 

 

 

N/A-2

 

       

 

89,100

 

 

 

222,750

 

 

 

445,500

 

    
 

 

2/10/2017

 

 

           

 

21,180

 

 

 

 

33.75

 

 

 

 

204,811

 

 

        
  Name 

Grant

Date

 

Estimated Future

Payouts UnderNon-

Equity Incentive

Plan Awards

 

Estimated Future

Payouts Under
Equity Incentive

Plan Awards

 

Estimated

Future

Payouts Under
Equity Incentive

Plan Awards

 All
Other
Stock
Awards:
Number
of
Shares
of
Stock
or Units
(a)
 

All

Other

Option

Awards:

Number of

Securities

Underlying

Options

(b)

 

Exercise

or Base

Price

of
Option

Awards

($ Per
Share)

 

Grant

Date

Fair

Value

of Stock

and

Option

Awards

($)

(c)

 

Threshold

($)

 

Target

($)

 

Maximum

($)

 Threshold
(#)
 Target
(#)
 

Maximum

(#)

 Threshold
($)
 Target
($)
 

Maximum

($)

               

Keith J. Allman

 N/A-1 742,342 1,855,854 3,711,708          
 3/21/2019     51,190 102,380    51,190   2,002,041
 N/A-2       824,840 2,062,101 4,124,202    
 2/7/2019           227,240 35.52 2,001,507
              

John G.

Sznewajs

 N/A-1 217,443 543,608 1,087,216          
 3/21/2019     13,490 26,980    13,490   527,594
 N/A-2       217,443 543,608 1,087,216    
 2/7/2019           62,430 35.52 549,877
              

Joseph B. Gross

 N/A-1 154,500 386,250 772,500          
 3/21/2019     9,590 19,180    9,590   375,065
 N/A-2       154,500 386,250 772,500    
 2/7/2019           42,570 35.52 374,952
 6/18/2019          10,560   399,696
              

Richard A. O’Reagan

 N/A-1 170,352 425,879 851,758          
 3/21/2019     10,570 21,140    10,570   413,393
 N/A-2       170,352 425,879 851,758    
 2/7/2019           46,940 35.52 413,443
              

Jai

Shah

 N/A-1 157,500 393,750 787,500          
 3/21/2019     10,070 20,140    10,070   393,838
 N/A-2       157,500 393,750 787,500    
 2/7/2019           44,700 35.52 393,713

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Estimated Future Payouts UnderNon-Equity Incentive Plan Awards: The amounts that correspond to grant date“N/A-1” reflect the threshold, target, and maximum opportunities under our 20172019 annual performance-based cash bonus program described in our Compensation Discussion and Analysis. The resulting cash bonus payments were made in February 20182020 and are reported in the 20172019 Summary Compensation Table above.


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Estimated Future Payouts Under Equity Incentive Plan Awards:

 

The amounts that correspond to grant date “3/22/2017”21/2019” reflect the threshold, target, and maximum opportunities under our LTIP relating to the 2017-20192019-2021 performance period. Our executivesIn 2019, our executive officers received grants of PRSUs under our LTIP, which we valued at $33.92$39.11 per share, the closing price of our common stock on the day of the grant, and assuming the target award would be earned at the end of the three-year performance period under our LTIP. The actual number of shares awarded, if any, will be determined after the three-year performance period endingconcludes on December 31, 2019.2021.

 

The amounts that correspond to grant date“N/A-2” reflect the threshold, target and maximum opportunities underfor the equity portion of our 20172019 annual performance-based restricted stockperformance program described in our Compensation Discussion and Analysis. The resulting awards of restricted stock awardsunits were made in February 20182020 and are reported in the 20172019 Summary Compensation Table above.

All Other Stock Awards (column a): The grant of restricted stock to Mr. Gross that corresponds to the grant date “6/18/2019” was made pursuant to an agreement between us and Mr. Gross on June 18, 2019 in connection with his accepting responsibility to lead our windows and cabinetry businesses through the divestiture process. Under the agreement, and upon its execution date, the 42,570 stock options granted to Mr. Gross on February 7, 2019 (reflected in column b above) were cancelled in exchange for a restricted stock award of 10,560 shares. The value of the restricted stock granted to Mr. Gross is equal to the value of the stock options granted to Mr. Gross on February 7, 2019. The shares of restricted stock will vest in five equal installments of 20%.

All Other Option Awards (column a)b): These amounts reflect the number of stock options granted to each executive officer in 2017.2019. The stock options granted vest in equal installments of 20% over a period of five years and remain exercisable until ten years from the date of grant.

Grant Date Fair Value of Stock and Option Awards (column b)c):

 

The amounts that correspond to grant date “3/22/2017”21/2019” are based upon the number of PRSUs granted on March 22, 201721, 2019 under our LTIP, which we valued at $33.92$39.11 per share, the closing price of our stock on the day of the grant, and assuming the target award would be earned at the end of the three-year performance period under our LTIP. The actual number of shares of stock that awarded, if any, will be determined after the three-year performance period endingconcludes on December 31, 2019.2021.

 

The amounts that correspond to grant date “2/10/2017”7/2019” reflect the grant date fair value of the stock option award on the grant date, which is determined in accordance with accounting guidance. Regardless of the value placed on a stock option on the grant date, the actual value of the option will depend on the market value of our common stock at a future date when the option is exercised.

OUTSTANDING EQUITY AWARDS AT FISCALYEAR-END

We make equity grants pursuant to our 2014 Long Term Stock Incentive Plan; outstanding grants made prior to May 2014 were made pursuant to our 2005 Long Term Stock Incentive Plan. We refer to these plans in this proxy statement collectively as our “Long Term Stock Incentive“Equity Plan.” In addition, beginning in 2017, we make PRSU grants pursuant to our LTIP. The following table shows, for each executive officer as of December 31, 2017:2019:

 

each vested and unvested stock option outstanding;

 

the aggregate number of unvested shares of restricted stock;

 

the market value of unvested shares of restricted stock based on the closing price of our common stock on December 31, 2017,2019, which was $43.94$47.99 per share;

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the aggregate number of PRSUs granted under our 2017-2019 LTIP, 2018-2020 LTIP and 2019-2021 LTIP; and

 

the market value of those PRSUs based on the number of PRSUs granted and the closing price of our common stock on December 31, 2017.2019.

Unvested shares of restricted sharesstock are held in the executive officer’s name, and the executive officer has the right to vote the shares and receive dividends on the shares of restricted shares,stock, but may not sell the shares until they vest. The value each executive officer will realize when the shares of restricted sharesstock vest will depend on the value of our common stock on the vesting date.


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20172019 OUTSTANDING EQUITY AWARDS AT FISCALYEAR-END

 

  
 Option Awards Stock Awards
 

 

Option Awards

 

 

 

Stock Awards

 

 
Name

 

 Original 

   Grant   

 Date 

 

 

Number of

Securities

Underlying

   Unexercised   

Options (#)

Exercisable

 

 

Number of

Securities

Underlying

Unexercised

Options (#)

   Unexercisable   

 

 

Option

 Exercise 

Price ($)

 

 

Option

 Expiration 

Date

 

 

Number of

Shares or

Units of

Stock

   That Have   

Not

Vested (#)

(a)

 

 

 Market Value 

of Shares or

Units of

Stock

That Have

Not

Vested ($)

 

 

 

Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Number
of
   Unearned   
Shares,
Units or
Other
Rights
That
Have Not
Vested
(#)

(b)

 

 

 

Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Market  or
Payout 
Value of
   Unearned   
Shares,
Units or
Other
Rights
That
Have Not
Vested
($)

 

 

Original

Grant Date

 

Number of

Securities

Underlying

Unexercised

Options (#)

Exercisable

 

Number of

Securities

Underlying

Unexercised

Options (#)

Unexercisable

 

Option

Exercise

Price ($)

 

Option

Expiration

Date

 

Number of

Shares or

Units of

Stock

That
Have Not

Vested
(#) (a)

 

Market Value

of Shares or

Units of

Stock

That Have

Not Vested
($)

 Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Number
of
Unearned
Shares,
Units or
Other
Rights
That
Have Not
Vested
(#) (b)
 Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Market or
Payout
Value of
Unearned
Shares,
Units or
Other
Rights
that Have
Not
Vested ($)
 

Keith J. Allman

      

 

202,568

 

 

8,900,838

 

 

51,080

 

 

2,244,455

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 180,984 8,685,422 150,450 7,220,096

 

12/5/2011 

 

 

 

18,234

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.26

 

 

 

12/05/2021 

 

     02/13/2013 49,574  17.87 02/13/2023 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/15/2012 

 

 

 

33,049

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.24

 

 

 

02/15/2022 

 

     02/12/2014 123,081  19.66 02/12/2024 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/13/2013 

 

 

 

33,049

 

 

 

16,525

 

 

 

17.87

 

 

 

02/13/2023 

 

     02/11/2015 150,432 37,608 22.92 02/11/2025 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/12/2014 

 

 

 

61,541

 

 

 

61,540

 

 

 

19.66

 

 

 

02/12/2024 

 

     02/10/2016 123,750 82,500 25.51 02/10/2026 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/11/2015 

 

 

 

75,216

 

 

 

112,824

 

 

 

22.92

 

 

 

02/11/2025 

 

     02/10/2017 69,300 103,950 33.75 02/10/2027 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/10/2016 

 

 

 

41,250

 

 

 

165,000

 

 

 

25.51

 

 

 

2/10/2026 

 

     02/09/2018 33,366 133,464 42.13 02/09/2028 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/10/2017 

 

 

 

 173,250

 

 33.75

 

 2/10/2027 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/07/2019  227,240 35.52 02/07/2029 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John G. Sznewajs

           

 

86,385

 

 

3,795,757

 

 

14,670

 

 

644,600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 51,441 2,468,654 40,490 1,943,115

 

2/9/2009 

 

 

 

96,869

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.05

 

 

 

02/09/2019 

 

         02/15/2012 82,624  10.24 02/15/2022 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/12/2010 

 

 

 

165,248

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.12

 

 

 

02/12/2020 

 

         02/13/2013 82,624  17.87 02/13/2023 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/16/2011 

 

 

 

85,473

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.25

 

 

 

02/16/2021 

 

         02/12/2014 62,680  19.66 02/12/2024 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/15/2012 

 

 

 

82,624

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.24

 

 

 

02/15/2022 

 

         02/11/2015 50,144 12,536 22.92 02/11/2025 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/13/2013 

 

 

 

66,099

 

 

 

16,525

 

 

 

17.87

 

 

 

02/13/2023 

 

         02/10/2016 41,250 27,500 25.51 02/10/2026 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/12/2014 

 

 

 

37,608

 

 

 

25,072

 

 

 

19.66

 

 

 

02/12/2024 

 

         02/10/2017 22,000 33,000 33.75 02/10/2027 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/11/2015 

 

 

 

25,072

 

 

 

37,608

 

 

 

22.92

 

 

 

02/11/2025 

 

         02/09/2018 9,166 36,664 42.13 02/09/2028 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/10/2016 

 

 

 

13,750

 

 

 

55,000

 

 

 

25.51

 

 

 

02/10/2026 

 

         02/07/2019  62,430 35.52 02/07/2029 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/10/2017 

 

 

 

 

55,000

 

 

33.75

 

 

02/10/2027 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Joseph B. Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 52,710 2,529,553 26,980 1,294,770
02/09/2018  21,656 42.13 02/09/2028 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard A. O’Reagan

      

 

54,612

 

 

2,399,651

 

 

11,060

 

 

485,976

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 38,865 1,865,131 31,110 1,492,969

 

2/11/2015 

 

 

 

15,499

 

 

 

23,248

 

 

 

22.92

 

 

 

02/11/2025 

 

     02/11/2015 30,998 7,749 22.92 02/11/2025 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/10/2016 

 

 

 

8,700

 

 

 

34,800

 

 

 

25.51

 

 

 

2/10/2026 

 

     02/10/2016 26,100 17,400 25.51 02/10/2026 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/10/2017 

 

 

 

 37,500

 

 33.75

 

 2/10/2027 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/10/2017 15,000 22,500 33.75 02/10/2027 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kenneth G. Cole

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

39,302

 

 

1,726,930

 

 

8,190

 

 

359,869

 

2/12/2010 

 

 

 

9,117

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.12

 

 

 

02/12/2020 

 

        

 

7/31/2013 

 

 

 

27,351

 

 

 

6,838

 

 

 

18.01

 

 

 

07/31/2023 

 

        

 

2/12/2014 

 

 

 

10,256

 

 

 

6,838

 

 

 

19.66

 

 

 

02/21/2024 

 

        

 

2/11/2015 

 

 

 

10,817

 

 

 

16,226

 

 

 

22.92

 

 

 

02/11/2025 

 

        

 

2/10/2016 

 

 

 

6,750

 

 

 

27,000

 

 

 

25.51

 

 

 

02/10/2026 

 

        

2/10/2017 

 

 

 

 

27,790

 

 

33.75

 

 

02/10/2027 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

Christopher K. Kastner

      

 

35,524

 

 

1,560,925

 

 

6,240

 

 

274,186

 

2/11/2015 

 

 

 

12,308

 

 

 

18,462

 

 

 

22.92

 

 

 

02/11/2025 

 

    

 

2/11/2015 

 

 

 

7,977

 

 

 

11,966

 

 

 

22.92

 

 

 

02/11/2025 

 

    

 

2/10/2016 

 

 

 

4,375

 

 

 

17,500

 

 

 

25.51

 

 

 

02/10/2026 

 

    
2/10/2017 

 

 

 

 21,180

 

 33.75

 

 02/10/2027 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard A. O’Reagan

02/09/2018 6,564 26,256 42.13 02/09/2028 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/07/2019  46,940 35.52 02/07/2029 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 39,468 1,894,069 24,290 1,165,677
02/11/2015 3 3,419 22.92 02/11/2025 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/10/2016  12,700 25.51 02/10/2026 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jai Shah

02/10/2017  15,720 33.75 02/10/2027 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/09/2018 4,498 17,992 42.13 02/09/2028 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/07/2019  44,700 35.52 02/07/2029 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Option Awards: StockThe stock option awards reflected in this table vest in five equal annual installments of 20% commencing in the year following the year of grant.


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Stock Awards (column a): This column reflects restricted stock awards. RestrictedThe restricted stock awards grantedreflected in 2010 and afterthis table vest in five equal annual installments of 20%. Restricted stock awards granted prior to 2010 vest commencing in equal annual installmentsthe year following the year of 10%.grant.

Stock Awards (column b): This column reflects PRSUs that relate to awere granted under our 2017-2019 LTIP, 2018-2020 LTIP and 2019-2021 LTIP. The number of PRSUs granted was based upon an assumption that the target award would be earned at the end of the three-year performance period under our LTIP.period. The actual number of shares of stock awarded, will beif any, is determined after the three-year performance period.period concludes.

OPTION EXERCISES AND STOCK VESTED

The following table shows the number of shares acquired, and the value realized, by each of our executive officers during 2017,2019, in connection with the exercise of stock options and the vesting of restricted stock previously awarded to each executive officer.

20172019 OPTIONS EXERCISED AND STOCK VESTED

 

     

Name

Number of Shares
Acquired on
Exercise (#)

 

Value Realized
on Exercise ($)

 

Number of Shares
Acquired on
Vesting (#)

 

Value Realized
on Vesting ($)

 

 Number of Shares Acquired     
on Exercise (#)
 Value Realized on Exercise     
($)
 Number of Shares Acquired     
on Vesting (#)
 Value Realized on Vesting     
($)
      

Keith J. Allman

 

 

57,553

 

1,851,596

 

 51,283 1,553,212 63,579 2,062,503
     

John G. Sznewajs

165,248

 

3,887,228

 

32,624

 

1,059,638

 

 250,721 7,126,873 28,667 929,957
     

Joseph B. Gross

 5,414 22,844 15,990 518,716
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

3,418

 

105,539

 

22,783

 

732,998

 

   17,141 556,054
     

Kenneth G. Cole

5,812

 

122,395

 

12,677

 

427,353

 

   

Christopher K. Kastner

 

 

8,232

 

263,836

 

Jai Shah

 60,296 1,315,526 18,186 589,954

RETIREMENT PLANS

This section describes the retirement plans available to our executive officers.

Defined Contribution Plans

Our defined contribution plans are thetax-qualified 401(k) Savings Plan and thenon-qualified Benefits Restoration Plan (“BRP”) applicable to the 401(k) Savings Plan. All of our executive officers participate in both of our defined contribution plans. We offer no other plans of deferred compensation that would permit the election of deferrals of cash compensation by our executive officers.

401(k) Savings Plan

Our 401(k) Savings Plan is available to eligible employees, and provides two employer contribution components, if applicable. The first employer contribution component is a matching contribution under which we match a percentage of an employee’s compensation deferred into the 401(k) Savings Plan. The second component is a discretionary profit sharing contribution that is guided by the operating profit performance target goal used to determine annual performance-based cash bonuses and awards of restricted stock awardsunits (see “Our 20172019 Annual Performance Program” above). Our Compensation Committee has established our maximum profit sharing contribution percentage at 10% of each participant’s annual earnings (base salary and cash bonus).

Defined Contribution Portion of the BRP

The defined contribution portion of our BRP is available to our highly compensated employees and is not funded. Under the BRP, we make account allocations reflecting our 401(k) Savings Plan employer match (in 2017,2019, for contributions up to $18,000)$19,000), profit sharing contribution amounts that exceed the Code’s limitations, and earnings (or losses) on participants’ accounts. Following a participant’s termination of employment, the BRP account is paid by us in a lump sum.


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2017NON-QUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION

(Defined Contribution Portion of the Benefits Restoration Plan)

2019NON-QUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION

(Defined Contribution Portion of the Benefits Restoration Plan)

2019NON-QUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION

(Defined Contribution Portion of the Benefits Restoration Plan)

      

Name

 

   Masco Allocations
   ($) (a)

 

    

   Aggregate
   Earnings

   ($) (b)

 

    

   Aggregate
   Withdrawals /
    Distributions

   ($) (c)

 

    

   Aggregate Balance
   at December 31,
    2017 ($) (d)

 

   

Masco Allocations ($)         

(a)         

  

Aggregate Earnings ($)         

(b)         

  

Aggregate Withdrawals /         

Distributions ($)         

(c)         

  

Aggregate Balance at         

December 31, 2019 ($)         

(d)         

       

Keith J. Allman

 285,251

 

   107,647

 

   

 

   869,861

 

   143,010  241,092    1,489,078
      

John G. Sznewajs

 98,854

 

   103,350

 

   

 

   667,958

 

   55,968  204,816    959,973
      

Joseph B. Gross

  37,733  14,351    231,072
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

 71,170

 

   35,905

 

   

 

   289,421

 

   42,324  78,375    462,555
      

Kenneth G. Cole

 53,490

 

   22,049

 

   

 

   157,061

 

 
    

Christopher K. Kastner

 42,327

 

   10,346

 

   

 

   73,817

 

 

Jai Shah

  42,553  97,994    544,376

Masco Allocations (column a): This column reports the amount of our 20172019 plan year allocation to each executive officer’s BRP account. Amounts in this column are included in the All Other Compensation column in the 20172019 Summary Compensation Table.

Aggregate Earnings (column b): This column reports the amount of earnings (or losses) posted to the account in 2017.2019.

Aggregate Withdrawals / Distributions (column c): This column reports the aggregate amount of all withdrawals or distributions from the account in 2017.2019.

Aggregate Balance (column d): This column reports the account’s ending balance at December 31, 2017.2019. The following amounts included in this column were previously reported as compensation in our Summary Compensation Table for 20152017 and 2016:2018, as applicable:

 

   

Name

  

   Masco Allocations
   Reported in 2015

   ($)

 

   

   Masco Allocations
   Reported in 2016
   ($)

 

 

Masco Allocations

Reported in 2017 ($)

Masco Allocations

Reported in 2018 ($)

    

Keith J. Allman

  156,104

 

        263,175

 

      285,251157,945
   

John G. Sznewajs

  68,437

 

   93,024

 

 98,85458,116
   

Joseph B. Gross

 

Richard A. O’Reagan

  45,255

 

   64,018

 

 71,17043,653
   

Kenneth G. Cole

  

 

   50,420

 

 
  

Christopher K. Kastner

  25,604

 

   35,363

 

 

Jai Shah

46,756

Defined Benefit Pension Plans

Our defined benefit pension plans are thetax-qualified Masco Corporation Pension Plan (the “Pension Plan”), thenon-qualified BRP applicable to the Pension Plan and thenon-qualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (“SERP”). Our defined benefit pension plans were frozen for future benefit accruals effective January 1, 2010. Consequently, the defined benefit pension benefits accrued for each of our executive officers are essentially fixed. In December 2019, our Board approved the termination of the Pension Plan. We expect that the termination process will be completed in 2021. As part of this process, all plan participants receiving monthly annuity benefits in 2021 will have their annuities placed with an insurance company. All other plan participants will have a choice to either receive a lump sum distribution of their benefits or have a deferred or immediate annuity benefit placed with an insurance company. The termination does not include the BRP and SERP.

The Pension Plan and BRP

The Pension Plan and BRP provide that at age 65, a participant receives an annuala monthly payment for the remainder of his or her life, with five years’ payments guaranteed. Employees became 100% vested in their pension benefit after completing five years of employment with us. The benefits paid are reduced for early retirement if commenced prior to age 65. The maximum credited service under the Pension Plan and the defined benefit portion of the BRP was 30 years. A participant who has ten or more years of service with us is eligible to receive a disability benefit equal to the participant’s accrued benefit.


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Messrs. Allman, Sznewajs, O’Reagan and ColeShah are participants in our Pension Plan, and each is 100% vested in theirhis Pension Plan benefits. Messrs. Allman, Sznewajs and SznewajsShah are participants in our BRP applicable to the Pension Plan.

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SERP

Mr. Sznewajs is the only executive officer that participates in thea SERP, which provides that at age 65, he will receive an annuala monthly payment for life of an amount up to 60% of the average of his highest three years’ cash compensation (base salary plus annual cash bonus, up to 60% of that year’s maximum bonus opportunity) earned on or before January 1, 2010. SERP payments are reduced by certain benefits paid by our other retirement plans or by retirement benefits payable by other employers. The maximum benefit under the SERP accrues after 15 years. When the SERP was frozen on January 1, 2010, Mr. Sznewajs’sSznewajs’ accrual of 52% was frozen, and he is now 50%70% vested. Mr. Sznewajs will not be fully vested in his frozen SERP benefit unless he continues to be employed with us until he reaches age 55, or we have a change in control.

The SERP provides a disability benefit if Mr. Sznewajs becomes disabled while employed by us. The disability benefit is paid until the earlier of death, recovery from disability or age 65; is offset by payments from long-term disability insurance we have paid for; and is equal to 60% of his annual salary and bonus (up to 60% of the maximum bonus opportunity) as of January 1, 2010. At age 65, payments revert to a calculation based on the highest three-year average compensation as of January 1, 2010. Under the SERP, Mr. Sznewajs and his spouse may also receive medical benefits.

The present value of SERP payments to Mr. Sznewajs is reported in the 20172019 Pension Plan Table below. His surviving spouse would receive reduced benefits.

Pension Plan Table

The 20172019 Pension Plan Table below reports the estimated present values on December 31, 20172019 of accumulated benefits for each of our executive officers under the Pension Plan, the defined benefit portion of the BRP and the SERP, as applicable. The amounts payable to Mr. Sznewajs under the SERP have been reduced by amounts payable to him under the Pension Plan and the defined benefit portion of the BRP. Mr. Sznewajs’ SERP amount has also been reduced by the January 1, 2010 benefits payable under the profit sharing component of the 401(k) Savings Plan and the defined contribution portion of the BRP.

20172019 PENSION PLAN TABLE

 

   

Name

 

 

Plan Name

 

    

   Number of Years

   Credited Service (#)

   (a)

 

    

   Present Value of

   Accumulated

   Benefits ($)

   (b)

 

  
   

Keith J. Allman

 

 Pension Plan

 

   12

 

   327,781

 

 
 Defined Benefit Portion – BRP

 

   12

 

   103,594

 

 
   

John G. Sznewajs

 

 Pension Plan

 

   13

 

   324,017

 

 
   
  

Defined Benefit Portion – BRP

 

    

13

 

    

282,645

 

  
   
  

SERP

 

    

13

 

    

3,006,644

 

  
   

Richard A. O’ Reagan

 

 Pension Plan

 

   1

 

   36,782

 

 
   

Kenneth G. Cole

 

 Pension Plan

 

   6

 

   102,638

 

  


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  NamePlan Name

    Number of Years    

Credited

Service (#)

(a)

    Present Value of    

Accumulated

Benefits ($)

(b)

    

Keith J. Allman

   Pension Plan12415,859
   Defined Benefit Portion - BRP12118,617
  

John G. Sznewajs

   Pension Plan14427,968
   Defined Benefit Portion - BRP14329,436
   SERP143,511,461
  

Richard A. O’ Reagan

   Pension Plan147,329
  

Jai Shah

   Pension Plan6201,342
   Defined Benefit Portion - BRP638,412

Number of Years Credited Service (column a): This column reports:

 

For the Pension Plan and BRP, credited service through January 1, 2010, the date on which accruals under our defined benefit pension plans were frozen, for years of employment with us, and our subsidiaries; and

 

For the SERP, credited service through January 1, 2010, for years of employment only with us.

We have not granted additional accruals to any of the executive officers in any of these retirement plans, and none of these plans provides for personal contributions or additional income deferral elections.

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Present Value of Accumulated Benefits (column b):Amounts in this column were calculated as of December 31, 20172019 using the normal form of benefit payable under each plan using:including: (a) base pay only for the Pension Plan and BRP, (b) base pay plus cash bonus for the SERP, and (c) the same discount rates and mortality assumptions as described in the notes to financial statements in our Annual Report on FormForm 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017.2019. Although SEC disclosure rules require a present value calculation, none of these defined benefit pension plans (other than the SERP and the BRP, in the event of a change in control) currently provides benefits in a lump sum.

PAYMENT UPON CHANGE IN CONTROL

We do not have employment agreements or change in control agreements with any of our executive officers. If we experienced a change in control, our executive officers would receivelump-sum payments of benefits under the BRP and, for Mr. Sznewajs, the SERP, that otherwise would be paid over time. Additionally, these two plans and our Long Term Stock IncentiveEquity Plan provide that participants could receive accelerated vesting and reimbursement (limited, for equity grants, to those made prior to 2012) in the case of imposition of excise tax upon a change in control. Upon a change in control, Mr. Sznewajs’ frozen SERP accrual of 52% would not change, but his vesting in this benefit would advance from 50%70% to 100%. None of our plans provides for additional accrual of benefits in the case of a change in control.

The following table reports the values of all payments (other than from ourtax-qualified retirement plans) assuming a change in control (and a termination of employment under certain conditions) had occurred on December 31, 2017.2019.

PAYMENTS UPON CHANGE IN CONTROL

 

         

Name

 

   Cash ($)

 

    

   Equity ($)

   (a)

 

    

   SERP and BRP

   Payments ($)

   (b)

 

    

   Perquisites

   ($)

 

    

   Excise Tax

   Reimbursement ($)

   (c)

 

    

   Other ($)

 

    

   Total ($)

 

 Cash ($)

Equity ($)

(a)

SERP and BRP

Payments ($)

(b)

Perquisites

($)

Excise Tax

Reimbursement ($)

(c)

Other ($)Total ($)
          

Keith J. Allman

 

 

   18,003,764

 

   1,254,898

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   19,258,662

 

 16,578,8851,743,13518,322,020
         

John G. Sznewajs

 

 

   7,199,932

 

   3,800,160

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   11,000,092

 

 4,864,4054,388,3559,252,760
         

Joseph B. Gross

2,656,457268,8052,925,262
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

 

   3,911,813

 

   360,591

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   4,272,404

 

 3,510,152504,8794,015,031
         

Kenneth G. Cole

 

 

   3,192,127

 

   210,551

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   3,402,678

 

 
       

Christopher K. Kastner

 

 

   2,738,870

 

   116,144

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   2,855,014

 

 

Jai Shah

3,151,974620,2783,772,252

Equity (column a): A change in control would trigger vesting (assuming a termination of employment under certain conditions had occurred with respect to awards granted beginning in 2013) of unvested restricted stock and stock option awards, the total value of which is shown in this column. This column is comprised of the incremental values for vestings of restricted stock (as shown in the last column of the 20172019 Outstanding Equity Awards at FiscalYear-End table above), plus the intrinsic values for vesting of stock options (based on our closing stock price of $43.94$47.99 on December 31, 2017)2019): $9,102,926$7,893,463 for Mr. Allman; $3,404,175$2,395,751 for Mr. Sznewajs; $1,512,162$126,904 for Mr. Gross; $1,645,021 for Mr. O’Reagan; $1,465,197and $1,257,905 for Mr. Cole; and $1,177,945 for Mr. Kastner.Shah.


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SERP and BRP Payments (column b):Amounts calculated for both the SERP and the BRP utilize the discount rates and mortality assumptions equal to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation discount rates for lump sums in plan terminations, as in effect four months prior to the change in control, and theUP-1984 mortality table (both of which differ from the rates and assumptions used to calculate the lump sums reported in the Pension Plan Table). Amounts in this column also include amounts shown in the 20172019Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation table above.

Excise Tax Reimbursement (column c):Excise tax reimbursements apply only to agreements and equity grants entered into prior to 2012. At December 31, 2017,2019, no individual’s payments would have exceeded applicable limits in the Code for parachute payments; therefore, no amounts are shown in this column.

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PAYMENT UPON RETIREMENT, TERMINATION, DISABILITY OR DEATH

Our executive officers may also be entitled to receive certain benefits upon retirement, voluntary or involuntary termination, disability or death, as described below. The benefits reported in the following tables would be paid on a monthly basis and, other than the BRP defined contribution component, not as lump sum payments.

Retirement

Upon retirement at or after age 65, our executive officers would be fully vested in the accumulated pension benefits shown in the table below. Our restricted stock and stock option awards do not vest upon retirement; following retirement, equity awards generally continue to vest in accordance with the remaining vesting period.

PAYMENT UPON RETIREMENT

 

       

Name

Pension Plan
Benefit ($)

 

 

BRP Benefit –
Defined Benefit
Portion

 

 

BRP Benefit –
Defined
Contribution
Portion

 

 

SERP Benefit
($)

 

 

Total ($)

 

 Pension Plan
Benefit ($)
BRP Benefit - Defined
Benefit Portion
BRP Benefit - Defined
Contribution Portion
SERP Benefit ($)Total ($)
        

Keith J. Allman

327,781

 

103,594

 

1,155,112

 

 

1,586,487

 

415,859118,6171,632,0882,166,564
       

John G. Sznewajs

324,017

 

282,645

 

766,812

 

3,006,644

 

4,380,118

 

427,968329,4361,015,9413,511,4615,284,806
       

Joseph B. Gross

268,805268,805
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

36,782

 

 

360,591

 

 

397,373

 

47,329504,879552,208
       

Kenneth G. Cole

102,638

 

 

210,551

 

 

313,189

 

     

Christopher K. Kastner

 

 

116,144

 

 

116,144

 

Jai Shah

201,34238,412586,929826,683

Termination

If a voluntary or involuntary termination of employment had occurred on December 31, 2017,2019, our executive officers would be fully vested in the accumulated pension benefits shown in the table below. Absent an agreement for post-termination extended vesting, termination of employment would result in forfeiture to us of all unvested restricted stock awards and unvested stock options. Vested stock options would remain exercisable for 30 days, in the case of voluntary termination, or three months,90 days, in the case of involuntary termination, but not beyond the originally-specified exercise period.option expiration date.

PAYMENT UPON TERMINATION

 

     

Name

 

Pension Plan
Benefit ($)

 

 

BRP Benefit –
Defined Benefit
Portion

 

 

BRP Benefit –
Defined
Contribution
Portion

 

 

SERP Benefit
($) (a)

 

 

Total ($)

 

 
     

Keith J. Allman

 

327,781

 

103,594

 

1,155,112

 

 

1,586,487

 

     

John G. Sznewajs

 

324,017

 

282,645

 

766,812

 

1,503,327

 

2,876,801

 

     

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

36,782

 

 

360,591

 

 

397,373

 

     

Kenneth G. Cole

 

102,638

 

 

210,551

 

 

313,189

 

     

Christopher K. Kastner

 

 

 

116,144

 

 

116,144

 


MASCO 2018  |  PART III - COMPENSATION OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

    
  NamePension Plan
Benefit ($)
BRP Benefit - Defined
Benefit Portion
BRP Benefit - Defined
Contribution Portion
SERP Benefit ($)
(a)
Total ($)
      

Keith J. Allman

415,859118,6171,632,0882,166,564
    

John G. Sznewajs

427,968329,4361,015,9412,458,0244,231,369
    

Joseph B. Gross

268,805268,805
    

Richard A. O’Reagan

47,329504,879552,208
    

Jai Shah

201,34238,412586,929826,683

SERP Benefit (column a):Mr. Sznewajs would have been 50%70% vested in his SERP benefit if his employment had terminated on December 31, 2017.2019.

Disability

If a disability had terminated the employment of any of our executive officers on December 31, 2017,2019, the executive officer would receive the benefits as reported in the table below. In addition, each executive officer would receive a benefit of $144,000 per year, payable from our long-term disability insurance policy. Any disability benefit received would terminate upon the earliest of death, recovery from disability or age 65, at which time the applicable retirement, termination or death benefits would become effective. In addition, all restrictions on restricted shares would lapse and all unvested stock options would become exercisable for the period of time allowed under the original awards.

MASCO 2020  

  PART III - COMPENSATION OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

PAYMENT UPON DISABILITY

 

       

Name

BRP Benefit –
Defined Benefit
Portion

 

 

BRP Benefit –
Defined
Contribution
Portion

 

 

SERP
Benefit ($)

 

 

Equity
($) (a)

 

 

Total
Benefit ($)

 

 

BRP Benefit - Defined

Benefit Portion

BRP Benefit - Defined
Contribution Portion
SERP Benefit ($)Equity ($)
(a)
Total Benefit ($)
        

Keith J. Allman

149,357

 

1,155,112

 

 

18,003,764

 

19,308,233

 

152,9591,632,08816,578,88518,363,932
       

John G. Sznewajs

517,357

 

766,812

 

6,451,457

 

7,199,932

 

14,935,558

 

534,1571,015,9416,587,0444,864,40513,001,547
       

Joseph B. Gross

268,8052,656,4572,925,262
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

360,591

 

 

3,911,813

 

4,272,404

 

504,8793,510,1524,015,031
       

Kenneth G. Cole

 

210,551

 

 

3,192,127

 

3,402,678

 

     

Christopher K. Kastner

 

116,144

 

 

2,738,870

 

2,855,014

 

Jai Shah

29,077586,9293,151,9743,767,980

Equity (column a): Disability would trigger vesting of unvested restricted stock and stock option awards, the total value of which is shown in this column. This column is comprised of the incremental values for vestings of restricted stock (as shown in the last column of the “2017“2019 Outstanding Equity Awards at FiscalYear-End” table above), plus the intrinsic values for vesting of stock options (based on our closing stock price of $43.94$47.99 on December 31, 2017)2019): $9,102,926$7,893,463 for Mr. Allman; $3,404,175$2,395,751 for Mr. Sznewajs; $1,512,162$126,904 for Mr. Gross; $1,645,021 for Mr. O’Reagan; $1,465,197and $1,257,905 for Mr. Cole; and $1,177,945 for Mr. Kastner.Shah.

Death

If death had terminated the employment of any of our executive officers on December 31, 2017,2019, the surviving spouse of the executive officer would receive the benefits as set forth in the table below. If the executive officer does not have a surviving spouse, a designated beneficiary (if applicable) would receive the benefits below, with the exception of the SERP and Pension Plan benefits and the benefits under the defined benefit portion of the BRP. In addition, all restrictions on restricted shares would lapse and all unvested stock options would become exercisable for up to a year, but not beyond the period of time allowed under the original awards.originally-specified option expiration date.

PAYMENT UPON DEATH

 

     
         

BRP Benefit ($)

 

                 
      
   Name

 

  

   Pension Plan
   Benefit ($)

 

     

   Defined
   Benefit
   Portion

 

     

   Defined
   Contribution
    Portion

 

     

   SERP
   Benefit ($)

 

     

Equity
($) (a)

 

     

Total
Benefit ($)

 

  
      

Keith J. Allman

 

  147,600

 

    46,211

 

    1,155,112

 

    

 

    18,003,764

 

    19,352,687

 

 
      
   John G. Sznewajs

 

  

136,903

 

     

117,787

 

     

766,812

 

     

5,484,565

 

     

7,199,932

 

     

13,705,999

 

  
      

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

  16,971

 

    

 

    360,591

 

    

 

    3,911,813

 

    4,289,375

 

 
      
   Kenneth G. Cole

 

  

42,421

 

     

 

     

210,551

 

     

 

     

3,192,127

 

     

3,445,099

 

  
      

Christopher K. Kastner

 

  

 

    

 

    116,144

 

    

 

    2,738,870

 

    2,855,014

 

 


PART III - COMPENSATION OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS  |  MASCO 2018

    
  NamePension Plan
Benefit ($)
BRP Benefit ($)SERP Benefit ($)

Equity ($)

(a)

Total Benefit ($)
Defined Benefit
Portion
Defined
Contribution
Portion
       

Keith J. Allman

183,38952,9851,632,08816,578,88518,447,347
     

John G. Sznewajs

170,015133,5151,015,9415,546,6794,864,40511,730,555
     

Joseph B. Gross

268,8052,656,4572,925,262
     

Richard A. O’Reagan

21,418504,8793,510,1524,036,449
     

Jai Shah

78,82415,351586,9293,151,9743,833,078

Equity (column a):Death would trigger vesting of unvested restricted stock and stock option awards, the total value of which is shown in this column. This column is comprised of the incremental values for vestings of restricted stock (as shown in the last column of the “2017“2019 Outstanding Equity Awards at FiscalYear-End” table above), plus the intrinsic values for vesting of stock options (based on our closing stock price of $43.94$47.99 on December 31, 2017)2019): $9,102,926$7,893,463 for Mr. Allman; $3,404,175$2,395,751 for Mr. Sznewajs; $1,512,162$126,904 for Mr. Gross; $1,645,021 for Mr. O’Reagan; $1,465,197and $1,257,905 for Mr. Cole; and $1,177,945 for Mr. Kastner.Shah.

Other Arrangements

As noted above in our “Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” it is our general policy not to enter into contractual termination arrangements. On an individually-negotiated basisemployment agreements, although, at our discretion, we may enter into severance arrangements or arrangements for an executive officer’s services following termination of employment. Such arrangements may include continued vesting of restricted stock or options that would otherwise be forfeited, as well as provisions restricting competitive activities following termination.

PART III - COMPENSATION OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS   

  MASCO 2020

CEO PAY RATIO

We identifiedTo identify our median employee by reviewingfor purposes of the pay ratio disclosure, we reviewed the annual base salaries for all persons who were employed by us on October 1, 2017, excluding Mr. Allman, our President and CEO. We included all employees, whether employed on a full-time, part-time, seasonal or temporary basis and did not make any estimates, assumptions or adjustments to any annual base salaries. Our identificationThe individual identified in 2017 is no longer employed by us, and, as permitted by the SEC, for 2018 we elected to select another employee, whose 2017 annual base salary was substantially similar to the annual base salary of our original median employee. Following the divestiture of our windows businesses in November 2019, we reviewed the composition of our employee population and believe there has been no change in the composition of our employee population or pay design as of December 31, 2019 that would significantly impact the pay ratio. Therefore, the median employee excluded all compensation other than annual base salary.for our 2019 pay ratio is the same individual we selected for our 2018 pay ratio.

After identifying our median employee, weWe calculated annual total compensation for suchour median employee using the same methodology we used for our executive officers as set forth in the above 20172019 Summary Compensation Table. The total compensation of the median employee was $38,617$40,070, including wages/base salary,wages, overtime pay,non-equity incentive program pay change in pension value and company 401(k) match. The annual total compensation of our CEO was $11,504,440.$8,659,363. The resulting pay ratio is 298:216:1.

As discussed in the note to column h of our Summary Compensation Table, in 2017 we transitioned from cash payments awarded under our LTCIP to PRSUs granted under our LTIP. Based on SEC rules, we are required to include in Mr. Allman’s total compensation for 2017 both the cash payment for the 2015-2017 performance period under the LTCIP and the grant date fair market value of the PRSUs for the 2017-2019 performance period under the LTIP, which could, if earned, entitle Mr. Allman to shares of our common stock. Excluding the grant date fair market value of the PRSUs for the 2017-2019 performance period, the ratio would have been 253:1.


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MASCO 2020  

  PART IV - AUDIT MATTERS

AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT

The Audit Committee Report

consists of eight members of the Board of Directors, each of whom is independent. The Audit Committee assists the Board of Directors in fulfilling the Board’s responsibility for oversight of the integrity of our financial statements, the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting, the qualifications, independence, performance and remuneration of our independent registered public accounting firm (“independent auditors”), the performance of our internal audit function, our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and compliance by our employees and officers with our Code of Business Ethics. Management is responsible for the accuracy of our financial statements and our reporting process, including our system of internal controls over financial reporting. In discharging its oversight responsibilities, the Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with management our audited financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 20172019 and our processes to ensure the accuracy of our financial statements.

The Audit Committee obtained from and discussed with our independent auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), the written disclosures and letter required by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding PwC’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence. The Audit Committee discussed with PwC any relationships that may impact PwC’s objectivity and independence and satisfied itself as to PwC’s independence. The Audit Committee confirmed that PwC’s provision ofnon-audit services to us did not impair their independence. The Audit Committee discussed with PwC the matters required to be discussed by the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 1301 as adopted byapplicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding communication withand the Audit Committee.Securities and Exchange Commission. The Audit Committee also met with PwC independent of management.

Based on the reviews and discussions with management and the independent auditorsPwC described above, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board of Directors that our financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 20172019 be included in our Annual Report on Form10-K for the year ended December 31, 20172019 for filing with the SEC. The Audit Committee also reappointed PwC as our independent registered public accounting firm,auditors for 2020, which stockholders are being asked to ratify.

Audit Committee

Lisa A. Payne, Chair

Mark R. Alexander

Marie A. Ffolkes

Christopher A. O’Herlihy

Donald R. Parfet

John C. Plant

Charles K. Stevens

Reginald M. Turner


PART IV - AUDIT MATTERS  |  MASCO 2018

PART IV - AUDIT MATTERS   

  MASCO 2020

 

PricewaterhouseCoopersPRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP FeesFEES

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

Aggregate fees for professional services rendered to us by our independent registered public accounting firm, PwC, for the years ended December 31, 20172019 and 20162018 were (in millions):

 

   
  

2017

 

     

2016

 

     2019        2018    
    

Audit Fees

  $8.4

 

    $8.1

 

 $9.0$8.0
   

Audit-Related Fees

  

0.4

 

     

 

 3.90.2
   

Tax Fees

  1.4

 

    0.8

 

 1.91.5
   

All Other Fees

  

0.1

 

     

0.1

 

   0.10.1
   

Total

  $10.3

 

    $9.0

 

 $14.9$9.8

 

The Audit Fees for the years ended December 31, 20172019 and 20162018 were for services rendered for audits and quarterly reviews of our consolidated financial statements, audits of our internal controls over financial reporting, statutory audits, issuance of comfort letters, consents and assistance with review of documents filed with the SEC.

The Audit-Related Audit Fees for the year ended December 31, 20172019 also include fees and expenses related to services rendered forcarve-out audits in connection with dispositions.

The Audit-Related Fees for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 were for services rendered for due diligence related to acquisitions and dispositions and employee benefit plan audits not required by law, and compilations. The Audit-Related Fees for the year ended December 31, 2019 include fees for procedures related to royalty arrangements. The Audit-Related Fees for the year ended December 31, 2018 include fees for services rendered in connection withfor the implementation of a prospective accounting standard.

 

The Tax Fees for the years ended December 31, 20172019 and 20162018 were for professional services related to tax return preparation and review, tax audit assistance, tax planning and tax advice related to reorganizations, divestituresacquisitions and dispositions and transfer pricing programs. Tax Fees for the year ended December 31, 2017 also included services related to tax due diligence.

 

All Other Fees for services rendered the years ended December 31, 20172019 and 20162018 were for services related to dispositions and miscellaneous services rendered. All Other Fees for services rendered the year ended December 31, 20162019 also include fees for servicestraining related to system implementation assessments.PwC’s digital services.

Audit CommitteeAUDIT COMMITTEEPre-approvalPRE-APPROVAL Policies and ProceduresPOLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Our Audit Committee has established a policy requiring its annual review andpre-approval of all audit services and permittednon-audit services to be performed by PwC. Our Audit Committee will, as necessary, consider and, if appropriate, approve the provision of additional audit andnon-audit services by PwC that are not encompassed by our Audit Committee’s annualpre-approval. Our Audit Committee has delegated to our Audit Committee Chair the approval authority, on acase-by-case basis, for services outside or in excess of our Audit Committee’s aggregatepre-approved levels, provided that the Chair shall report any such decisions to our Audit Committee at its next regular meeting. All of the services referred to in the table above for 20172019 werepre-approved by our Audit Committee or our Audit Committee Chair and none of the services approved by our Audit Committee during 20172019 were under the de minimis exception topre-approval contained in the applicable rules of the SEC.


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MASCO 2020  

  PART IV - AUDIT MATTERS

 

ProposalPROPOSAL 3: Ratification of Selection of Independent AuditorsRATIFICATION OF SELECTION OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

Our Audit Committee is responsible for the appointment, remuneration, retention and oversight of the independent external auditregistered public accounting firm retained to audit our financial statements. As part of its oversight, our Audit Committee and its Chair review and evaluate our lead audit engagement partner and participate in the selection of the new lead audit engagement partner in conjunction with the mandated rotation of that partner.

Our Audit Committee has selected the independent registered public accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) to audit our financial statements for the year 2018.2020. We have retained PwC (or its predecessor) as our independent auditor since at least 1959, and our Audit Committee believes that the continued retention of PwC to serve as our independent auditor is in the best interests of our Company and our stockholders.

Representatives of PwC will be present at our Annual Meeting and will have the opportunity to make a statement and respond to appropriate questions. If the selection of PwC is not ratified, our Audit Committee will consider selecting another independent registered public accounting firm as our independent auditors.

Our Board recommends a vote FOR the ratification of the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent auditors for the year 2018.2020.

The affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by shares entitled to vote is required for the ratification of the selection of independent auditors. Abstentions and brokernon-votes are not counted as votes cast, and therefore do not affect the ratification of the selection of independent auditors.


PART V - EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP   

  MASCO 2020

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP  |  MASCO 2018

Executive Officers

Our Board of Directors elects our executive officers annually. Our current executive officers are listed below.

 

    

Name

  

Position

 

  

   Age

 

     

   Executive

   Officer Since

 

 Position    Age    

Executive

    Officer Since    

     

Keith J. Allman

  

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

     55

 

    2014

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

572014
    

Amit Bhargava

  

Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development

 

     54

 

    2015

 

 
  

Kenneth G. Cole

  

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

 

     52

 

    2013

 

 

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

542013
  

Joseph B. Gross

  

Group President

 

     59

 

    2017

 

 
  

Christopher K. Kastner

  

Vice President, Masco Operating System

 

     46

 

    2014

 

 
    

John P. Lindow

  

Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

 

     54

 

    2011

 

 

Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

562011
    

Scott E. McDowell

Vice President, Masco Operating System

442018
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

  

Group President

 

     54

 

    2014

 

 

Group President

562014
  

Jai Shah

Group President

532018
    

Renee Straber

  

Vice President, Chief Human Resource Officer

 

     47

 

    2014

 

 

Vice President, Chief Human Resource Officer

492014
    

John G. Sznewajs

  

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

 

     50

 

    2005

 

 

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

522005

Keith J. Allman:Mr. Allman’s experience is described above in “Class II Directors (Term Expiring at the Annual Meeting in 2020).”

Amit Bhargava: Mr. Bhargava joined us in January 2015 as Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development. He served as Vice President, Enterprise Strategy & Development for UTC Aerospace Systems from 2013 through 2014. He previously served as Corporate Director, Corporate Strategy and Development for United Technologies Corporation (2012-2013) and as the Vice President, Business Development & Strategy for UTC Fire & Security (2011).

Kenneth G. Cole:Mr. Cole was elected as our Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in July 2013. Mr. Cole joined us in 2004 and has held positions of increasing responsibility in our legal department, serving most recently as Senior Assistant General Counsel and Director of Commercial Legal Affairs.

Joseph B. Gross: Mr. Gross was promoted to Group President in March 2018. He has been employed by Masco Corporation in various positions of increasing responsibility since 2011, most recently as Group Vice President, a position he held since April 2017. He previously served as the President and General Manager of Masco Cabinetry LLC (2015-2017), the President and General Manager of BrassCraft Manufacturing Company (2013-2015) and as the Vice President of Operations & Supply Chain at Arrow Fastener Co., LLC. (2011-2013).

Christopher K. Kastner: Mr. Kastner joined us in December 2014 as Vice President, Masco Operating System. He joined Danaher Corporation in 1995, where he worked for various business units, most recently as President (General Manager) of Anderson Instruments Co. (2013-2014) and as Vice President Global Operations – Gilbarco Veeder-Root (2008-2014). Mr. Kastner also served as Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s Vice President Commercial (2012-2013) and Vice President Global Dispensing (2011-2012).

John P. Lindow: Mr. Lindow was elected as our Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer in 2017. He was a Masco Group Controller from 2000 to 2007. He then served as Vice President Administration – Administration—Plumbing Products Platform until 2009, and was elected as our Vice President, Controller in 2011.

Scott E. McDowell:Mr. McDowell joined us in August 2018 as Vice President, Masco Operating System. He served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Zurn Industries, LLC (2018). He previously served as Vice President, Corporate Rexnord Business System for Rexnord Corporation (2015-2018) and as the Group Vice President, Marketing, Engineering and Business Development for Zurn Industries, LLC (2013-2015).

Richard A. O’Reagan:Mr. O’Reagan was promoted toelected Group President in May 2014. He joined Masco in 2008 as Vice President of Sales for Delta Faucet Company and in 2011 became the President of Delta Faucet Company.

Jai Shah:Mr. Shah was elected Group President in 2018. He most recently served as the President of Delta Faucet Company, a position he held since 2014. He previously served as the Vice President—Chief Human Resource Officer of Masco Corporation (2012-2014), Vice President Finance—Retail/Wholesale Platform since 2008, as a Group Vice President from 2007 to 2008, and as our Vice President—Strategic Planning from 2005 to 2007.

Renee Straber:Ms. Straber was elected Vice President, Chief Human Resource Officer in October 2014, after serving as our Group Director – Director—Human Resources since 2012. She joined Masco in 1995 as a Human Resource Representative for Delta Faucet Company and was promoted to Vice President, Human Resources for Delta Faucet Company in 2007.

John G. Sznewajs:Mr. Sznewajs was elected as our Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in 2007. He served as our Treasurer (2005-2016) and Vice President – President—Business Development (2003-2005).


MASCO 2018  |  PART V - EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

MASCO 2020  

  PART V - EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

 

Security Ownership of Management and Certain Beneficial OwnersSECURITY OWNERSHIP OF MANAGEMENT AND CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS

The following table shows the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of December 31, 20172019 by (i) each of our directors and director nominees, (ii) each executive officer included in the 20172019 Summary Compensation Table, (iii) all of our current directors and executive officers as a group (20(19 individuals), and (iv) all persons whom we know to be beneficial owners of five percent or more of our common stock. Except as indicated below, each person exercises sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares listed.

 

   

Name

  

Shares of

Common Stock

Beneficially

Owned

(a)

 

   

Percentage of

Voting Power

Beneficially

Owned

 

 

Shares of

      Common Stock      

Beneficially

Owned

(a)

      Percentage of      

Voting Power

Beneficially

Owned

    

Mark R. Alexander

  16,171

 

   *

 

 23,541*
   

Keith J. Allman

  762,505

 

   *

 

 1,134,848*
   

Kenneth G. Cole

  165,310

 

   *

 

 
  

Marie A. Ffolkes

  2,190

 

   *

 

 7,603*
   

Christopher K. Kastner

  78,936

 

   *

 

 

Joseph B. Gross

58,124*
   

J. Michael Losh

  79,043

 

   *

 

 68,179*
   

Richard A. Manoogian

  1,192,102

 

   *

 

 516,513*
   

Christopher A. O’Herlihy

  24,296

 

   *

 

 31,666*
   

Richard A. O’Reagan

  117,883

 

   *

 

 161,841*
   

Donald R. Parfet

  32,019

 

   *

 

 39,469*
   

Lisa A. Payne

  66,758

 

   *

 

 47,486*
   

John C. Plant

  23,104

 

   *

 

 30,474*
   

Jai Shah

188,164*
 

Charles K. Stevens

  

 

   *

 

 8,140*
   

John G. Sznewajs

  865,285

 

   *

 

 622,356*
   

Reginald M. Turner

  13,459

 

   *

 

 20,846*
   

Mary Ann Van Lokeren

  57,026

 

   *

 

 
  

All directors and executive officers of Masco as a group

  3,862,550

 

   1.2%

 

 3,418,0981.23%
   

Blackrock, Inc.

55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055

  23,532,287

 

   7.5%

 

 
  

FMR LLC

245 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210

  23,138,630

 

   7.4%

 

 

BlackRock, Inc.

55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055

22,654,0337.90%
   

The Vanguard Group

100 Vanguard Blvd., Malvern, PA 19355

  31,312,344

 

    10.0%

 

  32,110,13411.20%

* Less than one percent

*Less than one percent


PART V - EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP  |  MASCO 2018

Shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned (column a):The amounts reported in this column include:

 

For Mr. Losh, 57,063 shares held in a trust.

For Mr. Manoogian, an aggregate of 100,000110,000 shares owned by charitable foundations for which he serves as a director or officer. The directors and officers of the foundations share voting and investment power with respect to shares owned by the foundations, but Mr. Manoogian disclaims beneficial ownership of such shares. Excluding unvested restricted stock shares and shares that he has a right to acquire, substantially all of the shares beneficially owned by Mr. Manoogian (other than unvested restricted stock and shares he has a right to acquire) have been pledged.

 

For Mr. Parfet, 80 shares held in a trust.

For Ms. Payne,875 shares held in a revocable living trust.

 

For Ms. Van Lokeren, 700 shares held in an IRA.

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on January 25, 2018, on December 31, 2017 Blackrock, Inc. (through certain of its subsidiaries) beneficially owned 23,532,287 shares of our common stock, with sole voting power over 20,176,594 shares and sole dispositive power over all the shares.

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 13, 2018,5, 2020, on December 31, 2017 FMR LLC2019 BlackRock, Inc. (through certain of its subsidiaries) beneficially owned 23,138,63022,654,033 shares of our common stock, with sole voting power over 2,207,21419,571,866 shares and sole dispositive power over all the shares.

 

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 9, 2018,12, 2020, on December 31, 20172019. The Vanguard Group (and certain of its subsidiaries) beneficially owned 31,312,34432,110,134 shares of our common stock, with sole voting power over 454,310420,984 shares and shared voting power over 88,82893,584 shares, and sole dispositive power over 30,779,72231,616,389 shares and shared dispositive power over 532,622493,745 shares.

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Shares of unvested restricted stock and shares that may be acquired on or before March 1, 2018February 29, 2020 upon exercise of stock options, as reflected in the table below. Holders have sole voting, but no investment power, over unvested restricted shares and have neither voting nor investment power over unexercised stock option shares.

 

  
   Name

 

Unvested
Restricted

Stock Awards

 

Shares that may be
acquired on or before
March 1, 2018 upon
Exercise of Stock Options

 

  

Mark R. Alexander

 

9,138

 

 

  

Keith J. Allman

 

202,568

 

423,141

 

  

Kenneth G. Cole

 

39,302

 

85,419

 

  

Marie A. Ffolkes

 

2,190

 

 

  

Christopher K. Kastner

 

35,524

 

43,412

 

  

J. Michael Losh

 

7,968

 

18,234

 

  

Richard A. Manoogian

 

7,968

 

569,821

 

  

Christopher A. O’Herlihy

 

7,968

 

 

  

Richard A. O’Reagan

 

54,612

 

48,147

 

  

Donald R. Parfet

 

7,968

 

 

  

Lisa A. Payne

 

7,968

 

18,234

 

  

John C. Plant

 

7,968

 

 

  

Charles K. Stevens

 

 

 

  

John G. Sznewajs

 

86,385

 

639,090

 

  

Reginald M. Turner

 

8,233

 

 

  

Mary Ann Van Lokeren

 

7,968

 

9,117

 

  

All current directors and executive officers of Masco as a group

 

643,465

 

2,015,051

 


  
  NameUnvested
Restricted Stock
Awards

Shares that may be
acquired on or before

February 29, 2020 upon
Exercise of Stock Options

   

Mark R. Alexander

7,333
  

Keith J. Allman

180,984741,825
  

Marie A. Ffolkes

7,603
  

Joseph B. Gross

52,710
  

J. Michael Losh

7,333
  

Richard A. Manoogian

7,333
  

Christopher A. O’Herlihy

7,333
  

Richard A. O’Reagan

38,865118,563
  

Donald R. Parfet

7,333
  

Lisa A. Payne

7,333
  

John C. Plant

7,333
  

Jai Shah

39,46832,948
  

Charles K. Stevens

6,656
  

John G. Sznewajs

51,441409,426
  

Reginald M. Turner

7,333
  

All current directors and executive officers of Masco as a group

518,2991,593,978

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SECTION 16(a) BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REPORTING COMPLIANCE

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires our executive officers and directors, and persons who own more than ten percent of our common stock, to:

file reports of their ownership of our common stock and changes in their ownership with the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange; and

furnish us with copies of these reports.

Based solely on our review of copies of the reports we received, or written representations from our executive officers and directors that they were not required to file Form 5 ownership reports, we believe that each person who was a director, officer or beneficial owner of more than ten percent of our common stock at any time during 2017 timely met all applicable filing requirements during the year.


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2018 Annual Meeting  PART VI - GENERAL INFORMATION

of Stockholders

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2020 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

The Board of Directors of Masco Corporation is soliciting the enclosed proxy for use at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Masco Corporation to be held at our corporate office at 17450 College Parkway, Livonia, Michigan 48152, on Friday,Wednesday, May 11, 201813, 2020 at 9:30 A.M.a.m. Eastern Time, and at any adjournment or postponement of the Annual Meeting. This proxy statement and the enclosed proxy card are being mailed or otherwise made available to stockholders on or about March 29, 2018.27, 2020. We are concurrently mailing to stockholders a copy of our 20172019 Annual Report to Stockholders, which includes our Form10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.2019.

Who is entitledEntitled to voteVote at the Annual Meeting?

Our Board established the close of business on March 16, 20182020 as the record date to determine the stockholders entitled to receive a notice of, and to vote at, our Annual Meeting or an adjournment or postponement of the meeting. On the record date, there were 311,324,638263,755,373 shares of our common stock, $1 par value, outstanding and entitled to vote. Each share of our common stock represents one vote that may be voted on each matter that may come before the Annual Meeting.

All shares of our common stock represented by properly executed and unrevoked proxies will be voted by the persons named as proxy holders in accordance with the instructions given. If no instructions are indicated on a proxy, properly executed proxies will be voted as follows:

 

FOR each Class IIIII Director nominee;

 

FOR the approval of the compensation paid to our named executive officers; and

 

FOR the ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent auditors for 2018.2020.

What is the difference between holding sharesDifference Between Holding Shares as a record holderRecord Holder and as a beneficial owner?Beneficial Owner?

If your shares are registered in your name with our registrar and transfer agent, Computershare, you are the “record holder” of those shares. If you are a record holder, we have provided these proxy materials directly to you.

If your shares are held in a stock brokerage account, or with a bank or other holder of record, you are considered the “beneficial owner” of those shares held in “street name.” If your shares are held in street name, these proxy materials have been forwarded to you by your bank or broker. As the beneficial owner, you have the right to instruct that organization on how to vote your shares.


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What is a brokerBrokernon-vote?Non-Vote?

If your shares are held in “street name” through a bank, broker or other nominee, you must provide voting instructions to that organization. If you do not provide voting instructions, the organization may vote in its discretion on routine proposals, but not onnon-routine proposals, which is calledresulting in a “brokernon-vote.”non-vote” for those proposals. Only Proposal 3, Ratification of Selection of Independent Auditors, is a routine proposal.

How are abstentionsAbstentions and brokerBrokernon-votesNon-Votes treated?Treated?

Abstentions and brokernon-votes are not treated as votes cast with respect to any of the proposals on the agenda, so they will not have an effect on the outcome of the proposals.

What constitutesConstitutes a quorum?Quorum?

To conduct business at our Annual Meeting, we must have a quorum of stockholders present. A quorum is present when a majority of the outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote, as of the record date, are represented in person or by proxy. Brokernon-votes and abstentions will be counted toward the establishment of the quorum.

How canCan I submit my vote?Submit My Vote?

There are four methods you can use to vote: by internet, by telephone, by mail or in person. Submitting your proxy by internet, telephone or mail will not affect your right to attend the Annual Meeting and change your vote. Unless you are voting in person, your vote must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on May 10, 2018.12, 2020.

 

 

Method

 

Record Holder

 

Beneficial Owner

  

Internet

 Have your proxy card available and log on to www.proxyvote.com. 

If your bank or broker makes this method available, the instructions will be included with the proxy materials.

 

Telephone

 

Have your proxy card available and call
(800)690-6903 from a touchtone telephone anywhere (toll free only in the United States).

 

If your bank or broker makes this method available, the instructions will be included with the proxy materials.

 

Mail Your

Proxy Card

 Mark, date, sign and promptly mail the enclosed proxy card in the postage-paid envelope provided for mailing in the United States. 

Mark, date, sign and promptly mail the voting instruction form provided by your bank or broker in the postage-paid envelope provided for mailing in the United States.

 

In Person

 You may vote by ballot in person at the Annual Meeting. 

Obtain proof of stock ownership as of the record date and a valid legal proxy from the organization that holds your shares and attend the Annual Meeting.

How many votesMany Votes are neededNeeded for each proposalEach Proposal to pass?Pass?

All of the matters to be considered at our Annual Meeting require the approval of a majority of the votes that are actually cast.

Our Bylaws provide that, in uncontested elections, directors are elected if the majority of votes cast FOR each nominee exceed the votes cast AGAINST such nominee. Proxies cannot be voted for a greater number of persons than the number of nominees named. Each director nominee will provide to us an irrevocable resignation if the majority of the votes cast are against him or her. The resignation will be effective within 90 days after the election results are certified, if the Board (excluding nominees who did not receive a majority of votes for their election) accepts the resignation, which it will do in the absence of a compelling reason otherwise.

If you are the stockholder of record, and you sign and return a proxy card without giving specific voting instructions, then the proxy holders will vote your shares in the manner recommended by our Board on all matters presented in this proxy statement, and as the proxy holders may determine in their discretion with respect to any other matters properly presented for a vote at the meeting.


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Is my proxy revocable?My Proxy Revocable?

You may revoke your proxy before it is exercised by voting in person at the Annual Meeting, by timely delivering a subsequent proxy or by notifying us in writing of such revocation to the attention of Kenneth G. Cole, Secretary, at 17450 College Parkway, Livonia, Michigan 48152 before your proxy is voted. Unless you revoke your proxy in person at the meeting, your revocation must be received by 11:59 P.M.p.m. Eastern Time on May 10, 2018.12, 2020.

Who is payingPaying for the expenses involvedExpenses Involved in preparingPreparing and mailingMailing this proxy statement?Proxy Statement?

We are paying the expenses involved in preparing, assembling and mailing these proxy materials and all costs of soliciting proxies. Our executive officers and other employees may solicit proxies, without additional compensation, personally and by telephone and other means of communication. In addition, we have retained Morrow Sodali LLC, 470 West Avenue, Third Floor, Stamford, Connecticut 06902, to assist in the solicitation of proxies for a fee of $12,000, plus expenses. If you have questions about voting your shares, you may call Morrow Sodali LLC, at(877) 787-9239 (for individual stockholders) or(203) 658-9400 (for banks and brokerage firms). We will reimburse brokers and other persons holding our common stock in their names or in the names of their nominees for their reasonable expenses in forwarding proxy materials to beneficial owners.

What happensHappens if additional mattersAdditional Matters are presentedPresented at the Annual Meeting?

Other than the items of business described in this proxy statement, we are not aware of any other business to be acted upon at the Annual Meeting. If you grant a proxy, the persons named as proxy holders, Messrs. Allman and Cole, will have the discretion to vote your shares on any additional matters properly presented for a vote at the Annual Meeting. If for any reason any of our director nominees is not available as a candidate, Messrs. Allman and Cole may vote your shares for another candidate (or candidates) who may be nominated by the Board, or the Board may reduce its size.

What is “householding”“Householding” and howHow does it affect me?Affect Me?

The proxy rules of the SEC permit companies and intermediaries, such as brokers and banks, to satisfy proxy statement delivery requirements for two or more stockholders sharing an address by delivering one proxy statement to those stockholders. This procedure, known as “householding,” reduces the amount of duplicate information that stockholders receive and lowers our printing and mailing costs.

We have been notified that certain intermediaries will use householding for our proxy materials and our 20172019 Annual Report. Therefore, only one proxy statement and 20172019 Annual Report may have been delivered to your address if multiple stockholders share that address. Stockholders who wish to opt out of this procedure and receive separate copies of the proxy statement and annual report in the future, or stockholders who are receiving multiple copies and would like to receive only one copy, should contact their bank, broker or other nominee or us at the address and telephone number below.

We will promptly send a separate copy of the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting or 20172019 Annual Report if you send your request to webmaster@mascohq.com, call our Investor Relations Department at(313) 792-5500, or if you write to Investor Relations, Masco Corporation, 17450 College Parkway, Livonia, Michigan 48152.

Our Website

We maintain a website at www.masco.com. The information on our website is not a part of this proxy statement, and it is not incorporated into this proxy statement or any other filings we make with the SEC.


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2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders2021 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

If you wish to submit a proposal to be considered at the 20192021 Annual Meeting, you must comply with the following procedures. Any communication to be made to our Secretary as described below should be sent to: Kenneth G. Cole, Secretary, Masco Corporation, 17450 College Parkway, Livonia, Michigan 48152.

PROXY STATEMENT PROPOSAL

If you intend to present proposals to be included in our proxy statement for our 20192021 Annual Meeting, you must give written notice of your intent to our Secretary on or before November 29, 201827, 2020 (120 calendar days prior to the anniversary of our mailing this proxy statement). The proposals must comply with SEC regulations under Rule14a-8 for including stockholder proposals in a company’s materials.

MATTER FOR ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA

If you intend to bring a matter before next year’s meeting, other than by submitting a proposal to be included in our proxy statement, we must receive notice in accordance with our Bylaws, which state that our Secretary must receive your notice no earlier than January 11, 201913, 2021 and no later than February 10, 2019.12, 2021. For each matter you intend to bring before the meeting, your notice must include a brief description of the business to be brought before the meeting; the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, if such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment); the reasons for conducting the business at the meeting and any material interest you may have in such business; your name and address as it appears in our records; the number of shares of our common stock you own; a representation that you are a holder of record of shares of our stock entitled to vote at such meeting and you intend to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such business; and a representation as to whether you are part of a group that intends to deliver a proxy statement or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of our outstanding common stock required to approve or adopt such proposal, or if you intend to otherwise solicit proxies from stockholders in support of your proposal. The proposal must be in compliance with all of the requirements in our Bylaws.

DIRECTOR CANDIDATE NOMINATION

If you wish to nominate director candidates for election to the Board at the 20192021 Annual Meeting, you must submit the following information required by our Certificate of Incorporation to our Secretary no later than February 12, 2019:10, 2021: your name and address and the name and address of the person(s) to be nominated; a representation that you are a holder of record of shares of our common stock entitled to vote at such meeting and you intend to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the person(s) specified in the notice; a description of all arrangements or understandings between you and each nominee and any other person(s) (naming such person(s)) pursuant to which the nomination(s) is or are to be made by you; other information regarding each nominee you are proposing, as would have been required to be included in a proxy statement filed pursuant to the SEC’s proxy rules if the nominee had been nominated by the Board of Directors; and the written consent of each nominee to serve as our director if elected. In addition, our Bylaws require that the notice of intent to make a nomination shall be accompanied by a statement whether each nominee, if elected, intends to tender, promptly following such election, an irrevocable resignation effective upon such person’s failure to receive the required vote forre-election at the next meeting at which such person would facere-election and upon the Board of Directors’ acceptance of such resignation. Our Bylaws also state that a stockholder seeking to make a nomination before an annual meeting shall promptly provide to us any other information we reasonably request.request, and the nomination must be in compliance with all of the requirements in our Bylaws.


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Other MattersOTHER MATTERS

The Board of Directors knows of no other matters to be voted upon at the Annual Meeting. If any other matters properly come before the Annual Meeting, the proxy holders named in the enclosed proxy will have discretionary authority to vote the shares represented by the proxy in their discretion with respect to such matters.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

 

 

LOGOLOGO

Kenneth G. Cole

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Livonia, Michigan

March 29, 201827, 2020

 

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MASCO CORPORATION

17450 COLLEGE PARKWAY

LIVONIA, MI 48152

VOTE BY INTERNET -www.proxyvote.com

Use the Internet to transmit your voting instructions and for electronic delivery of information up until 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time on Thursday,Tuesday, May 10, 2018.12, 2020. Have your proxy card in hand when you access the web site and follow the instructions to obtain your records and to create an electronic voting instruction form.

ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF FUTURE PROXY MATERIALS

If you would like to reduce the costs we incur in mailing proxy materials, you can consent to receiving all future proxy statements, proxy cards and annual reports electronically viae-mail or the Internet. To sign up for electronic delivery, please follow the instructions above to vote using the Internet and, when prompted, indicate that you agree to receive or access proxy materials electronically in future years.

VOTE BY PHONE -1-800-690-6903

Use any touch-tone telephone to transmit your voting instructions up until 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time on Thursday,Tuesday, May 10, 2018.12, 2020. Have your proxy card in hand when you call and then follow the instructions.

VOTE BY MAIL

Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope we have provided or return it to Vote Processing, c/o Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717. MASCO CORPORATION 17450 COLLEGE PARKWAY LIVONIA, MI 48152 E97039-P35425 MASCO CORPORATION The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following: 1. Election of Directors For Against Abstain ! ! ! 1a. Keith J. Allman ! ! ! 1b. J. Michael Losh ! ! ! 1c. Christopher A. O'Herlihy ! ! ! 1d. Charles K. Stevens, III The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposals: For Against Abstain 2. To approve, by non-binding advisory vote, the compensation paid to the Company's named executive officers, as disclosed pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the compensation tables and the related materials disclosed in the Proxy Statement. ! ! ! ! ! ! 3. To ratify the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent auditors for the Company for 2020. NOTE: In their discretion, the proxy holders are authorized to vote upon such other matters that may come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners should each sign personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate or partnership name by authorized officer.

 

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THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED.

DETACH AND RETURN THIS PORTION ONLY  

  MASCO CORPORATION

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR
the following:
1. Election of DirectorsForAgainstAbstain  

1a.   Mark R. Alexander

1b.  Richard A. Manoogian

1c.   John C. Plant

The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposals:ForAgainstAbstain  
2. To approve, bynon-binding advisory vote, the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the compensation tables and the related materials disclosed in the Proxy Statement.

3. To ratify the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent auditors for the Company for 2018.

NOTE:In their discretion, the proxy holders are authorized to vote upon such other matters that may come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners should each sign personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate or partnership name by authorized officer.

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THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE

ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

MAY 11, 2018

13, 2020 The undersigned stockholder(s) hereby appoint(s) Keith J. Allman and Kenneth G. Cole, or either of them, as proxy holders, each with the power to appoint his substitute, and hereby authorize(s) them to represent and to vote, as designated on the reverse side of this proxy, all of the shares of Common Stock of MASCO CORPORATION that the stockholder(s) is/are entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held at 9:30 A.M. Eastern Time on Friday,Wednesday, May 11, 2018,13, 2020, at the corporate offices of the Company at 17450 College Parkway, Livonia, Michigan 48152, and any adjournment or postponement thereof, and to vote in histheir discretion on any other matters that may come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

THIS PROXY, WHEN PROPERLY EXECUTED, WILL BE VOTED AS DIRECTED BY THE STOCKHOLDER(S). IF NO SUCH DIRECTIONS ARE MADE, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED “FOR”"FOR" THE ELECTION OF THE NOMINEES LISTED IN PROPOSAL 1 AND “FOR”"FOR" PROPOSALS 2 AND 3.

This proxy is revocable and the undersigned may revoke it at any time prior to the Annual Meeting by giving written notice of such revocation to the Secretary of the Company or by filing with the Secretary of the Company a later-dated proxy. Should the undersigned be present and want to vote in person at the Annual Meeting, or at any postponement or adjournment thereof, the undersigned may revoke this proxy by giving written notice of such revocation to the Secretary of the Company on a form provided at the meeting. The undersigned hereby acknowledge(s) prior receipt of a Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company called for May 11, 2018,13, 2020, the Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting and the 20172019 Annual Report to Shareholders.

Stockholders. PLEASE MARK, SIGN, DATE AND RETURN THIS PROXY CARD PROMPTLY USING THE ENCLOSED REPLY ENVELOPE.

Continued and to be signed on reverse side