A. O. Smith Corp.

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Mr. Current has been a director of our Company since July, 2007. He is a member of the Audit Committee of the Board. Mr. Current was appointed vice president corporate affairs and assistant to the chief executive officer of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in 2007. He served as vice president of policyowner services from 2006 to 2007 and as an executive officer from 2004 through the present. He joined Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company as vice president, corporate planning in 2003. Prior to joining Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, he was vice president and chief marketing officer of Lincoln Financial Group from 1995 to 2003. Prior to Lincoln Financial, Mr. Current served from 1987 to 1995 as vice president at Citibank, North America, in a variety of operations and marketing management positions. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company is the nation’s largest direct provider of individual life insurance.

Mr. Wulf is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. He has been Senior Vice President since 2006 and Chief Financial Officer since 2002. He previously was Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer from 2002 to 2006, Vice President and Controller from 1998 to 2002 and Vice President and Assistant Controller from 1997 to 1998. From 1975 to 1997, he held various financial positions within the Company. Mr. Wulf is also a director of A. O. Smith Corporation.

Kathleen J. Hempel was elected a director of Whirlpool Corporation in June 1994. She is a member of the corporate governance & nominating committee and the finance committee of the board of directors. Hempel is the former vice chairman and chief financial officer of Fort Howard Corporation. Hempel joined Fort Howard in 1973 and served as vice president – human resources, executive vice president, and senior executive vice president prior to the 1997 merger with James River Corp. to form Fort James Corporation. She had been a member of Fort Howard's board of directors since 1979 until the 1997 merger. Hempel graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration. She earned her MBA from Arizona State University in Tempe in 1984. Hempel currently is a member of the board of directors of Oshkosh Truck Corporation. Hempel served a gubernatorial appointment to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, is a past member of the board of directors of the National Association of Manufacturers, and is a past member of the American Forest and Paper Association's Tissue Division Board.

Mr. Smith has been a director of the Company since 2001. He is a member of the Audit Committee of the Board. He has served as a product business manager for Strattec Security Corporation since 1997. Strattec Security Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets mechanical locks, electro-mechanical locks and related security products for major automotive manufacturers. Mr. Smith is a first cousin of Mr. Bruce M. Smith, also a director of the Company. Mr. Arthur O. Smith, III, brother of director Mark D. Smith, is a long-standing employee of the Company employed in a non-executive capacity as Manager of Business Analysis at A. O. Smith Electrical Products Company.

Mr. Brown is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. He has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since June 2001. Prior thereto, he was President and Chief Operating Officer from September 1999 to June 2001. He is a director of A.O. Smith Corporation. Mr. Brown is a Company Director.