On March 5, 2026, the Board of Directors of The Middleby Corporation appointed Glenn A. Eisenberg as a director of the Company. In connection with his appointment to the Board, Mr. Eisenberg has been appointed to serve as a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board. Mr. Eisenberg will participate in the compensation arrangements for nonemployee members of the Board described in the Definitive Proxy Statement of the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2025, which currently consists of an annual cash retainer and an annual grant of restricted stock units.
Mr. Eisenberg brings extensive public company leadership experience spanning life services, industrial manufacturing, and diversified industrial sectors. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Labcorp where he oversaw financial operations across over 100 countries until his retirement in December 2024. He continues as a Special Advisor to the company.
Prior to Labcorp, Mr. Eisenberg served as Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer from 2002-2014 at The Timken Company, a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered bearings, alloy steels and related products and services. Earlier in his career, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of United Dominion Industries where he also held several senior leadership roles in finance, including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and President of the company?s Test Instrumentation segment. Mr. Eisenberg currently serves on the Board of Directors of two other public companies.
In April 2024 he joined the Board of Directors of Solventum, and chairs the Audit Committee. In March 2025 he was added to the board of Lumexa Imaging where he chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Compensation Committee. His previous board experience includes serving as lead independent director and chairing governance committees at Alpha Natural Resources Inc., chairing audit committees at U.S. Ecology Inc. and Family Dollar Stores Inc., and serving on the audit committee at Perspecta Inc.
The Middleby Corporation is an engaged in designing, manufacturing and selling of commercial foodservice, food processing equipment and residential kitchen equipment. The Company operates through three segments. The Commercial Foodservice Equipment Group has a portfolio of foodservice equipment, which enables it to serve virtually any cooking, warming, holding, refrigeration, freezing and beverage application within a commercial kitchen or foodservice operation. The Food Processing Equipment Group offers a portfolio of processing solutions for customers producing protein products, such as bacon, salami, hot dogs, dinner sausages, poultry and lunchmeats and bakery products, such as muffins, tortillas, cookies, crackers, pastries, bread and buns. The Residential Kitchen Equipment Group manufactures, sells and distributes kitchen equipment for the residential market. The products offered by this group include cookers, stoves, cooktops, microwaves, refrigerators, wine cellars and others.
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