Aaron W. Saak

Career

1. 2023-04 – now
   Crane NXT, Co.src
   President & CEO; director
   Crane NXT became independent on 2023-04-03 when Crane Holdings, Co. separated into Crane NXT and Crane Company
2. 2022-10 – 2023-04
   Crane Holdings, Co.src
   CEO of the Crane NXT organization (CEO designate ahead of the separation)
   Offer letter: $800k salary, $700k sign-on cash in two installments, $2.2m make-whole RSUs; his role was to be eliminated, with severance, if the separation had not closed within 18 months
3. 2022-06 – 2022-11
   Vontier Corporationsrc
   President & CEO, Mobility Solutions
4. 2018-02 – 2022-06
   Gilbarco Veeder-Root (Vontier subsidiary)src
   President
   Press release: about $2bn revenue, 6,000 employees, sales in over 40 countries; several acquisitions into recurring-revenue models (company's own description)
5. 2010 – 2018
   Tyco Internationalsrc
   Roles of progressive responsibility, including VP & General Manager of the SimplexGrinnell division
   Eight years at Tyco per EX991-2022-10-20; the 2010 and 2018 end points come only from the org-chart search result

Undated in the sources

• General Electricsrc, Ten years with expanding responsibilities (roles not named)

Not located: The General Electric decade is undated and its roles unnamed in every source searched (it precedes Tyco, so roughly the 2000s); Tyco start and end years rest on one search result

Achievements

• Hired from outside in October 2022 to lead the Crane NXT business and took it independent in the April 2023 separation from Crane Holdingssrc
• Ran Gilbarco Veeder-Root, a Vontier subsidiary of about $2bn revenue and 6,000 employees, from 2018 to 2022src
• Has pursued an acquisition-led strategy: OpSec Security (May 2024) and Antares Vision (agreed September 2025 at about EUR 445m enterprise value, completed April 2026)src
• 2025 bonus scorecard: revenue $1,568.6m against a $1,524.0m target, adjusted operating profit $335.8m against $354.0m, adjusted FCF $213.5m against $226.3m; paid 93.7% of targetsrc
• Bought 24,000 Crane NXT shares on the open market on 2026-06-12 at about $42.13, roughly $1.0msrc

Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BS Ceramic Engineeringsrc
• Northwestern University, MS Industrial Engineering and Management Sciencesrc
• Northwestern University, PhD Materials Science and Engineeringsrc

Background

• Family Neither the 2026 proxy nor the FY2025 10-K carries an Item 401(d) family-relationship statement; no family relationship with another director or officer was locatedsrc
• Boards Director of Crane NXT since 2023 and a member of its Executive Committee; the only non-independent director. The chair (John S. Stroup) is a separate, non-employee directorsrc
• Other Holds a PhD in materials science; an engineer by training who came up through General Electric and Tyco operating rolessrc
• Other Change-in-control agreement pays a lump sum on a qualifying termination; estimated at $6.3m had it occurred on 2025-12-31. Ordinary involuntary severance is one year of salarysrc