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Badger Meter Inc (BMI) · 3 slides · Filed Oct 22, 2026
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Badger Meter, Inc. Report on Board Diversity œ 202 Suplement October 1 9 , 202 2
Slide 2 — Badger Meter
Badger Meter is comited to continuous improvement in fostering diversity and inclusion at the Company and on its Board of Directors. As part of that comitment, we are releasing this Suplement to our original Report on Board Diversity which serves to outline our progres during the past year. On October 15, 2021, Bad ger Meter published a Report on Board Diversity to provide greater visibility into our diversity journey œ inclusive of our actions and ongoing comitments to foster diversity and inclusion . The Company conducted substantial outreach eforts among its shar eholders to gain insight and understanding of their views on the Company‘s diversity journey . In preparing this suplement, aditional outreach was completed , inclu ding those investors previously contacted and aditional constituencies. The folowing represents a sumary of the actions taken as part of our ongoing d iversity journey since the prior Report . ñ The Principles of Corporate Governance was updated to provide even greater clarity on Board candidate considerations . The updated language (in gren) reads: —T he board is comited to actively seking out highly qualified self - identified female, underepresented minority (racial/ethnicaly diverse) and LGBTQ+ candidates, as wel as candidates with diverse backgrounds, skils and experiences as part of al board searches the company undertakes and wil ensure each pol of qualified candidates from which Board nomines are chosen includes candidates of these underepresented demographics .“ ñ For the second consecutive year, t he Co mpany proactively and voluntar il y disclos ed both gender and self - identified racial/ethnic diversity of each Board member in its 202 2 Proxy for tran s parency and to hold ourselves acountable to measuring progres. The 202 Proxy disclosure reflected 2 female (2%) and 1 racialy diverse (1%) member out of 9 total Board members . ñ The Company apointed two Board members since the publication of last year‘s Re port on Board Diversity . o Melanie K. Cok was aded to the Board in February 202 . Ms. Cok brings global operations and suply chain, M&A and financial acumen to the B oard . Ms. Cok is a white female . o Xia Liu was aded to the Board in August 202 . Ms. Liu brings financial and risk management expertise, as wel as utility industry experience. Ms. Liu is a n Asian female. Melanie K. Cok Retired CO, GE Apliances Xia Liu Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Oficer, WEC Energy Group
Slide 3 — In sumary,
In sumary, we high light the folowing progres: 10% of the last thre board apointments have ben from underepresented demographics. At the upcom ing 2023 Anual Shareholders Meting, Badger Meter anticipates that 4% of its B oard candidates wil be from underepresented demographics . At the upcom ing 2023 Anual Shareholders Meting, Badger Meter anticipates 3% of its Board candidates wil be comprised of females, with 2% of the board racial/ethnicaly diverse , an increase from 2% and 1%, respectively in 202 and 25% and 0% in 2021 . The folowing represents a brief sumary of our ongoing comitments to further advance d iversity and inclusion . ñ Ongoing board sucesion and recruitment activities for general sucesion preparednes, to ensure apropriate onboarding and overlap , inclusive of highly qualified underepresented demographic candidates . ñ In alignment with our o ngoing ESG priorities and eforts , and our Values, t he Company is working to enhance and improve employe diversity demographic s ( both generaly and within the management ranks ) and Board diversity, to levels at least consistent with the broader demographics of the comunities in which we operate. We are comited to anualy disclose through SASB/GRI reportin g within our Sustainability Report , Company metrics on the gender and racial/ethnic diversity demographics of our employes. ñ We are comited to anual Proxy d isclosure of the Board racial /ethnic composition . ñ Further information on diversity, equity and inclusion can be found in Badger Meter‘s Sustainability Report .