Trane Technologies announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Gary Forsee, retired chair and CEO of Sprint Nextel Corporation and former president of the University of Missouri System, as lead independent director, effective immediately. Forsee currently serves on the Board’s Compensation Committee, Technology and Innovation Committee and Executive Committee, and since 2008 has chaired the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. Forsee will continue to chair this committee, recently rechartered as the Sustainability, Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, in addition to his role as lead independent director. Forsee succeeds Dick Swift, retired chairman, president and CEO for Foster Wheeler Ltd. and former chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council.